Thank you for sharing this important information about opting - out of high-stakes standardized testing.   We need appropriate, accurate, and meaningful classroom assessment which these tests cannot and do not provide.  We need funding to reduce class sizes, hire more staff (teachers, custodians, nurses, librarians, counselors) to help our under-served children.  One feasible and equitable way this can be achieved is by having large corporations bringing in $25 million in profits to pay their fair share of taxes.  The ballot initiative will definitely not affect my or my neighbors' taxes who certainly do not make that much money in a year.  Usually, we are paying MORE  in taxes than these huge corporations.