WHITE PLAINS REPORTS MATH ASSESSMENT OPT-OUT RATE: 15%. 85% TAKE THE TESTS | WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER 3,374,995 VISITS IN ONE YEAR---65,000 VISITS A WEEK BY 985,281 VISITORS

WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. From the White Plains City School District. April 15, 2016:

Michele Schoenfeld, Clerk to the Board of Education, reported to WPCNR today the participation rates in this week’s State Mathematics Assessment.

She reported that 85% (2,707 approximately) of the approximate 3,125 third to Eighth Graders took the tests, and 15% (474) were withheld from the tests by their parents.

The Breakdown, according to Ms. Schoenfeld showed that 146 (9%) of Grade 3 to 5 Students were prevented from taking the tests by their parents, and 328 (20%) of Middle School Students in Grades 6 to 8 were opted out of the Math Assessment. This was despite strong lobbying by Middle School Teachers in White Plains that they should opt out and take the tests, according to parents who were told this by their middle school student.

Overall, 13% of those students eligible to take the ELA Assessment opted out and 15% of those eligible to take the Math Assessments opted out.