Illinois

UNITED OPT OUT COORDINATORS:

• Julie Fain
• Cassandra Cresswell
   

RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATIONS:

•  Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE)  - http://www.pureparents.org

  • The New ERA Plan is Chicago's LSC Summit alternative accountability and assessment proposal; a summary is available on PURE's web site.
     

  • See a piece created by PURE's Julie Woestehoff and FairTest's Monty Neill on Chicago's Renaissance 2010. The Examiner piece is at http://fairtest.org/new-report-challenges-strategies-promoted-chicago-0
     
• More than a Score Chicago - http://morethanascorechicago.org/. On this site are a petition against overuse and misuse of tests, a fact sheet on testing, both in English and Spanish, and other testing reform materials.
   
• Substance monthly newspaper covers Chicago schools as well as national testing issues.