Breaking: Tens of Thousands of Kids Refuse Common Core Tests in New York

By: American Decency Staff

A network of volunteers is tracking New York parents' reports that they have decided to sign their kids out of Common Core tests this spring. The number at 10 p.m. ET on April 1 (no joke) was 24,316, according to Yvonne Gasperino, a mother and state leader of the grassroots rebellion against the national curriculum testing mandates.

Just four hours earlier, the count was 18,219, and the volunteers aren't done counting. Thirty-one parents in counties across the state are working to keep tabs on the number of opt-outs, each entering numbers on a group spreadsheet. View the spreadsheet here.

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