CVPE member, Daniel Santos, is a teacher at Jackson Middle School. In this op ed for the Houston Chronicle, he writes about what schools could do with the money wasted on high stakes testing. Read more

Great infographic on alternatives to school closure Read more

40% of the teachers at Jefferson Elementary School were removed from the classroom in November 2013. Because approximately 38 third graders performed significantly better on the STAAR than the previous year's group of third graders, the district summarily removed 40 teachers across many grade levels from their classrooms. The result was that most of these students spent the year being taught by substitutes.   Read more

Read about the restoration of some of the Rainy Day Funding and the reduction of end of course exams required for graduation from 15 to 5. Read more

In her blog post on May 15th, 2013, Diane Ravitch applauded CVPE for motivating parents, teachers, students and community members for taking action and speaking in front of the HISD school board last week. Read more

KUHF reporter Laura Isensee witnessed CVPE delivering 1,600 signed petitions against over-testing to the HISD school board last Thursday, April 11th. Here is her article which aired on April 12, 2013 in which she interviewed CVPE members Ruth Kravetz and Consuelo Martinez. Read more

Dozens of parents and educators with Community Voices for Public Education pleaded with the HISD school board Thursday night, April 16, 2013, to limit practice, or benchmark, exams for the state’s high-stakes STAAR test. Read more

CVPE members Vincent Sanders and Jim Faber spoke with KUHF about the excessive practice tests to prepare students for the STARR. Read more

Let's raise our voices (students, parents, teachers and community members) and tell the HISD School Board to end over-testing, and make space for learning in the classroom! Please sign our Change.org petition and stand up for our kids: http://chn.ge/UfPH8V Read more

Please read the bills listed below, and call your state legislature to voice your opinion regarding any/all bills. Click the following link to look up your state legislature and find his/her contact info: http://bit.ly/TXReps Read more