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NC State Board Of Ed Meeting Slated for August 3-4

Posted on August 1, 2016 by

The next North Carolina State Board of Education (NCSBE) meeting is slated for August third and fourth. The agenda for the upcoming meeting can be found on the NCSBE website under the ‘meetings’ tab.

The NCSBE meetings are live streamed for those who cannot attend in person. Whose wishing to listen in will need to download RealPlayer if they do not already have it on their device.

Nowhere in the two-day agenda is the revision of Common Core math for High school or Elementary and middle school grades mentioned.

See some of the highlights…. Continue reading →

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Contract for KEA Still Including All 5 Domains

Posted on May 4, 2016 by

In the March contracts update at the State Board of Education meeting, the first contract on the list is for the KEA — Kindergarten Entry Assessment.

DPI scaled back the implementation of all five domains, but from the looks of it, DPI is back on track to implement all five domains at some point anyway. But what is concerning is that the contract now mentions “writing learning progressions for eight domains”. Continue reading →

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KEA Pilot Cost: $511,360

Posted on October 2, 2015 by

The Kindergarten Entry Assessment pilot conducted in half of North Carolina’s elementary schools in the 2014-15 school year apparently cost $511,360.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

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See What $69,157,850 In Education Contracts Buys For NC

Posted on August 1, 2015 by

Next week is the NC State Board of Education’s monthly meeting.  It’s going to be an expensive one. John Locke Foundation’s Lindalyn Kakadelis has noted that at this Board meeting, contracts totaling $69,157,850 are on the agenda.  Go read it and … Continue reading →

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What They’re Saying About Education In NC (7/24/15) #NCED

Posted on July 24, 2015 by

Yes, I’m still on blog vacation, however I have an update on some NC Education issues and an update HB13 (Health assessments).

I’d like to take a moment and apologize if I upset the apple cart with my article the other day. I was particularly hard on Senator Soucek — Sorry about that, but being the voice for ‘we the people’ at times means I have to play bad cop.

Having said that, I might have to play worse cop now, again given what I see restored in HB 13 today. Continue reading →

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Is It Time To #OptOut In North Carolina?

Posted on April 26, 2015 by

In New York, 190,836 students opted out of the state’s Common Core ELA aligned test.

The Opt Out rate at Nathan Hale High school in Seattle, Washington for the SBAC test was 100%.
The entire 11th grade glass didn’t show up.

There is test dumping going on In Jeb Bush’s Florida. Miami-Dade, which is the fourth largest school district in the nation, has just announced cutting the state assessments to the bone, including end of grade assessments or EOG’s in elementary schools.

So where is North Carolina in the Opt Out Movement? Do Parents know the EOG is Common Core aligned?

KEEP READING — SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR STATE ON TESTING Continue reading →

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Health Form Created By NC DPI, DHHS Goes ‘Far beyond’ What NC Law Requires

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

As previously mentioned on this blog, Parents with children entering North Carolina Public Schools for Kindergarten (as well as those entering schools for the first time for any grade) in the state will be required to fill out an invasive “health assessment” form.

Currently, House Bill 13 proposes to make this health assessment part of a child’s permanent record. It will be included in the state longitudinal database system, of which another bill (HB 401) will make that data accessible by multiple state agencies.

Lindalyn Kakadelis, over at John Locke, has posted an an article talking about this exact health assessment. In her article, she chronicles how her own daughter went to enroll her child into Kindergarten and had to deal with this form.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

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