Who are the parents fighting standardized testing?

A lot of attention has been focused on the growing number of parents opting their children out of standardized testing in public schools. The opt out movement began in New York and the west coast, but is now surfacing in Georgia.

Who are these parents?

A new survey by researchers from Teachers College, Columbia University tackled that question, discovering through national surveys of opt out groups that, “The typical opt out activist is a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.”