Oct 11, 2015
A CALL TO ACTION: URGENT Send the following message to ALL of our State Reps. and Senators ASAP: The NH Department of ED is REFUSING to release the Smarter Balanced Assessment scores!!! While other states have released the preliminary scores, NH is REFUSING to release...
Sep 24, 2015
CALL TO ACTION: Please E-MAIL Rep. Judith Spang the following article Her e-mail address is: judith@kestrelnet.net Rep. Spang (D-Durham) continues to deny that standardized test scores will be used to evaluate teachers. As you can see from this article, there is...
Sep 22, 2015
NH residents need to start asking themselves, when did they give up local control to the Commissioner of Education, Virginia Barry? Has our State Commissioner of Education overstepped her boundaries AGAIN? Who pays the Superintendents? Who hires and fires the...
Sep 10, 2015
We URGE you to refuse to cooperate in further testing days or testing time for SBAC tests UNTIL the SBAC sends back useful information to all parents, teachers and schools based on the 2015 assessment. Then schools, teachers and parents will jointly decide if the...
Sep 7, 2015
Governor Hassan’s Dept. of Ed is proving to be a disaster. Let’s take the Smarter Balanced Assessment debacle as an example. Before the assessment was administered, the NH DoE was looking for an alternative. That’s right, they signed on to a flawed...
Aug 30, 2015
The Smarter Balanced Assessment set students up for failure. This explains why…. EXCERPT: In September 2014, the group that developed the SBAC test announced for the first time that the SBAC test would fail 67% of the students who took the test. Here is a quote...
