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School board confronted on parental rights

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This is a continuation of last week's report of the October 12 Council School Board meeting.

At almost an hour into the meeting, Unfinished Business came up on the agenda, and the first item was the district's policy concerning parental rights. After objections to what some perceived by some as legalistic, difficult to understand language in the policy statement that was initially brought to the board two months ago, the board rewrote the policy in an effort to make it more easily understood. The first reading of the rewritten parental rights policy was scheduled for this October 12 meeting.

This issue seems to hinge on parents' wanting their children in public school to have the right not to take (opt out of) the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test, also known as the new ISAT test, which is integrated with the Common Core State Standards adopted



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