New Bedford presses parents to accept PARCC exams

NEW BEDFORD – School officials in this seaside city are pressing parents to allow their children to take the controversial PARCC exams, claiming that too many opt-outs of the Common Core-aligned tests may harm the district financially and otherwise. The controversy over the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing highlights resistance to the exam, which the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to scrap in November. This is the last year that s

NEW BEDFORD – School officials in this seaside city are pressing parents to allow their children to take the controversial PARCC exams, claiming that too many opt-outs of the Common Core-aligned tests may harm the district financially and otherwise. The controversy over the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing highlights resistance to the exam, which the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to scrap in November. This is the last year that s…