As Common Core Testing Is Ushered In, Parents and Students Opt Out

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — On Monday morning, a few hundred students will file into classrooms atBloomfield Middle School, open laptops and begin a new standardized test, one mandated across New Jersey and several other states for the first time this year.

About a dozen of their classmates, however, will be elsewhere. They will sit in a nearby art room, where they will read books, do a little drawing and maybe paint.


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