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Klein, Mulgrew to help pitch New York’s Race to the Top plan | GothamSchools

Klein, Mulgrew to help pitch New York’s Race to the Top plan | GothamSchools

Klein, Mulgrew to help pitch New York’s Race to the Top plan

When Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch pitches New York’s Race to the Top application to federal judges next month, she’ll be joined by two familiar faces from New York City.
Chancellor Joel Klein and United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew will join state education officials when they travel to Washington, D.C., in two weeks, Tisch announced today.
The three will be joined by State Education Commissioner David Steiner and Deputy Commissioner John King, both of whom also represented the state in its first-round presentation in March.
For the first-round presentation, Tisch sent a lower-profile, more technocratic team comprised mostly of state

Test scores down sharply; biggest decline for needy students

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Source: New York State Education Department
The day of reckoning has arrived.
After weeks of warning that adjusted standards would