UPDATED: 4/24/2013 – 12:28 p.m.

CHICAGO (CBS) — They are supposed to be taking a mandatory state test today, but about 100 CPS high school students instead were boycotting the test and protesting outside Wednesday’s school board meeting.

WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports just about all the students protesting outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters at 125 S. Clark St. were boycotting school on Wednesday, but the juniors among them were also skipping out on the second day of the Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE), a state-required standardized test.

“Today, we are boycotting the second day of PSAE to show that standardized testing should not decide the future of our schools and students,” one girl said at the protest.