{"id":32579,"date":"2014-08-27T20:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=32579"},"modified":"2014-08-27T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:59:45","slug":"lee-school-board-votes-to-opt-out-of-state-mandated-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/08\/lee-school-board-votes-to-opt-out-of-state-mandated-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee School Board Votes To Opt Out Of State-Mandated Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32580\" title=\"teset1\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/teset1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/>In a three-to-one vote, the Lee County school board decided to opt out of state-mandated testing. \u00a0This makes Lee County the first school district in Florida to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 parents were at the meeting to protest the tests. Some don&#8217;t even have children in the district, but are supporting the idea in Lee County \u2013 which could set a precedent statewide.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with several parents, groups and advocates over the last few weeks who say they are sick of their children suffering from these tests.<\/p>\n<p>One parent told us third grade students were held back because they failed the exams, but excelled in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another parent says their children now believe they can&#8217;t read because the tests tell them they cannot \u2013 even though their grades show otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the school district could face several ramifications. \u00a0Those consequences include funding cuts to the district and keeping students from graduating.<\/p>\n<p>To read all of the ramifications of opting out of standardized testing according to the Lee County School District attorney,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/082714_effectsofdistrictoptout.pdf\">click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a three-to-one vote, the Lee County school board decided to opt out of state-mandated testing. \u00a0This makes Lee County the first school district in Florida to do so. Over&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}