As students relax during spring break before entering the final phase of the school year, end-of-the-year standardized tests are coming into focus. Last year, the movement to allow students to opt out of state standardized tests was fierce. Will it be as fierce this year?

Even where parents are adamant about opting their child out of standardized tests, state law may prohibit them from doing so. According to the National Association of State Boards of Education, 33 states require all students to take state tests. “Some states promote counseling parents who refuse to let their students take state tests; others warn that nonparticipation will keep students from fulfilling graduation requirements, violate state attendance policies, or, when the tests in question are exams, may affect student grades,” NASBE’s Sarah-Jane Lorenzo wrote in an opt out policy update in August 2015.