<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Neighborhood School Families,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The NY State Tests are less than two weeks away.</b>
Yesterday, we had our Test Forum; teachers, members of the Advocacy
Committee and I discussed a variety of issues related to testing, opting
out, test prep, the middle school process and the TNS alternative
assessment. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">School communities all over the city are having similar conversations.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Teachers
and Principal Liz Phillips of PS 321 in Park Slope recently held a test
forum about the nature of tests. You can watch it below:</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/whBR8EQ5dgY" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">https://youtu.be/whBR8EQ5dgY</font></a></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://ps321.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TTF-Presentation-Short-Version-1-1.pdf" target="_blank">http://ps321.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/TTF-Presentation-Short-Version-1-1.pdf</a><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Please reach out to me if were unable to attend yesterday's meeting and have questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Have a great weekend,</div><div>Dyanthe</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>