help our children by putting an end to Common Core standards and high stakes testing.

Help us repeal the Common Core and put an end to high stakes testing. The Common Core fosters test driven education that is not meeting the individual or intellectual needs of students and presents a racial and economic bias that is beneficial to white middle/upper class students and detrimental to second language students, impoverished students, and students of color.
The Common Core is particularly detrimental to young learners as it is developmentally inappropriate and not based on well-researched child development knowledge about how young children learn. The Common Core devalues the whole child and the importance of social-emotional development, play, art, music, science, and physical education. It is not scientifically-based and fails to follow the U.S.'s own data on education.