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Most Colo. students being assessed

DENVER – On the eve of the first round of Common Core testing, the Colorado State Board of Education declared its support for parents’ right to choose to keep their children from being assessed.

Some state lawmakers also took up the call, while parents who gathered at the state Legislature to urge lawmakers to scrap the new education standards tossed out opt-out rates as high as 40 percent.

Districts as varied as the more than 34,000-student Aurora Public Schools to rural 151-student De Beque, however, reported high participation rates to AP, which communicated by phone or email with nearly half the state’s 178 superintendents in recent weeks. Urban Aurora estimated a 95 percent rate, and De Beque’s was 96 percent.

Still, some superintendents said the issue of too much testing is one that needs to be addressed.

“While the tolerance of our community for assessment and the technology worked to make this volume of testing possible, this is not saying it was the right thing for our students or our schools,” Eagle superintendent Jason Glass said.

Glass saw participation of 99 percent – 100 refusals out of 6,800 students – in his mountain district.



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