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CHICAGO — A group of parents concerned about standardized tests aligned with the new Common Core curriculum are hosting a series of seminars to explain their objections.
The grassroots education group Raise Your Hand is hoping for a one year moratorium on the tests implementation in CPS schools, which is scheduled for March 2015.
On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Casey Cora discusses what the group says about the test, and how they've even found an ally in CPS chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett:
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