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[quote=Anonymous]When PARCC scores were released over the summer, Henderson made statements to the WaPo and Washington Examiner stating that there is no provision in DC law permitting Wilson students (and presumably all others in testing grades in DC public schools) to opt out of city-administered standardized tests.

This seems to be DC's policy now under ESSA, because DC has not sought permission from the DoE to let students opt out, freely or under limited conditions, as a dozen states have.  E.g., in PA, students can only opt out for religious reasons.  That said, DC hasn't established penalties for non-compliance either, such as preventing individual students who opt out from advancing a grade, or graduating high school.  From the perspective of an individual DCPS family, it sounds like opting out is really just a matter of keeping abreast of the attendance police, however you make that work between 3rd and 10th grades. The civic-minded may not want to hurt their school's PARCC performance by opting out, but that's a personal choice, vs. an obligation under the law.  
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