CEJ Parents React to Gov. Cuomo’s “State of the State”
Coalition for Educational Justice: “As the governor takes up his new commission and focuses on performance, we strongly encourage him to design a platform that improves students’ ability in the world, not ability to take a test.”
Governor Cuomo gave his second State of the State Address in Albany today, outlining a number of goals and initiatives for public education. His speech followed a year of disappointment for public school parents and students, during which the State added about 350 City schools to its list of “Schools In Need of Improvement” in compliance with the federal “No Child Left Behind Act”, adjusted state scores showed a deepening crisis in our middle and elementary schools, and new figures showed that just one in four high school students graduate prepared for college.
Public school parent Lynn Sanchez of the Coalition for Educational Justice released the following