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Educators’ Agenda: Protect Our Schools

Photo: Martin Falbisoner (Attribution: ShareAlike 3.0 Unported) There is a growing threat to our public schools from President-Elect Trump in the White House and Governor Hogan here in Maryland. Both share an education agenda that weakens public schools by shifting taxpayer dollars to private and for-profit charter schools. This agenda would harm — and in some cases, […]
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An Educator’s Guide to MSDE’s ESSA Survey

Photo: Stephen Cherry The Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), the landmark federal bill that replaces No Child Left Behind, presents a once in a generation opportunity to redefine and improve public school success, with less emphasis on testing and a greater focus on closing opportunity gaps. Maryland’s ESSA Implementation Will Shape Your School for Years to […]
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Educators Lead on ESSA

When Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last December — finally moving on after 15 years under the failed, testing-obsessed No Child Left Behind — one of its most important requirements was to include stakeholder input in the development of new school accountability systems. Not only were the days of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) going to be […]
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MSEA Statement on Testing Commission Report

Annapolis, Maryland — This morning, the Commission to Review Maryland’s Use of Assessments in Public Schools posted their final report on how to reduce standardized testing to its Maryland State Department of Education website page. The recommendations now must be adopted or rejected by local school boards by September 1, 2016, and the State Board of Education […]
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Maryland General Assembly Changes Kindergarten Readiness Assessment to a Sampling Test

Change Will Restore Time to Learn for Kindergarten Classes On April 11, the House and Senate chambers reconciled minor differences in conference committee and passed important testing-reduction legislation to change the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) into a sampling test—which means it will only be taken by a representative group of students instead of every child. […]
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Maryland House Passes 2% Cap on School Testing

Testing Reduction Bills Move Forward in Maryland General Assembly Annapolis, Maryland — Today, the Maryland House of Delegates unanimously passed legislation to limit local, state, and federal mandated standardized testing at 2% of annual instruction time—or a little more than 20 hours a year (HB 141). The forward movement follows the unanimous passage of legislation to […]
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MSEA Calls for Immediate Suspension of Kindergarten Readiness Assessment

Surveys of Hundreds of Kindergarten Teachers Identify Major Concerns with New Test On the heels of an outcry from kindergarten teachers across the state, the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) released a report today calling for the State Board of Education and Maryland State Department of Education to suspend the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) until […]
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