First time opt out parent Elizabeth Hernandez Cedillo explains in her own words why she is opting her daughter of the STAAR test this week. Read more

Read what parents and the media are saying about Opt Out. Attend the CVPE meeting this Saturday , 12:30-2pm. Be the change you want to see in the world. Read more

Read the powerful words of parent and CVPE member Samuel Brower about why his daughter is opting out of the STAAR test this year, as published on the Houston Chronicle's website. You can find it here. 

KPFT Radio FM 90.1 reported on CVPE's Opt Out Academy. Listen to parents and HFT talk about why they are supporting Opt Out here!

Reporter Laura Isensee attended our rally at last month's Houston ISD Board Meeting. She reports on that and the growing opt out movement in Houston here. 

Community Voices for Public Education urges parents, teachers and members of the Houston community to take action at tomorrow night's board meeting. Help is needed to stop disastrous per unit allocation (PUA) school funding cuts!    Read more

Fox 26 reporter Andrea Watkins covered the Houston Federation of Teachers' endorsement of parents' right to opt their children out of the STAAR test. Parents from Community Voices for Public Education were present to discuss how they have successfully opted their children out in past school years.  Read more

On Thursday, the HISD School Board will be voting on one of the most significant across-the-board funding cuts in HISD history. These cuts (called PUA cuts) would affect every student in every school in every zip code in the district. Please email the Board and tell them that cuts should come from central office, not from PUA. These cuts should not hurt our children. Read more

To:  HISD Trustees Re: Superintendent Search Criteria The most important responsibilities of the Board of Education are the selection of the superintendent and the development of a contract that holds the superintendent to these criteria, not merely to test scores.  Read more

I spent one year teaching at a Title I HISD school. This is my story. I wish that I could say that this was a rare, freakish situation. It was not. This is going on everywhere. Not always to this degree, but there are at least trace elements of this in every school. And poor kids and the schools that serve them suffer the most. Opt out of STAAR. It's the only way to change this toxic system. Read more