Illinois

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

*Newsletter-Parents Guide to Testing In English and En Espanol-

*Position statement: -Organized Students of Chicago

*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://www.fairtest.org/new-report-challenges-strategies-promoted-chicago

* Press Release - PURE wins major changes in CPS promotion policy via OCR complaint

*Press Release -National Experts Judge Chicago's Program of Retaining Students a Failure

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

*Also, a companion piece, a comparison of the New ERA Plan with the current CPS policies.

* Substance monthly newspaper covers Chicago schools as well as national testing issues.

* See a piece by George Scmidt from Substance on Teachers Refusing to give the CASE exam.

* ENHANCING TEACHING AND IMPROVING LEARNING: A Proposed System of Curriculum-Based Assessment for the Chicago Public Schools was written by the Commission on Improving Curriculum Based Assessment but it was not released publicly. The document provides valuable recomendations for positive changes in assessment.