Time To Make The Politicians Understand That They Willl Pay Politically If They Support King, Tisch And The Reform Agenda
Here's how you know the Common Core reforms are going to end up in the graveyard sooner rather than later.At a State Senate Education Committee meeting yesterday, attending senators said they have been receiving more calls, complaints and emails to their office over the Common Core standards than any other issue.Think about that for a minute.The ACA implementation has been a mess and many people h
NYSED Commissioner King Claims Common Core "Allows Students To Be Joyful In Their Learning"
He says it at the end of this video from last night's Common Core meeting in Mineola.Watch the video at Newsday here. He says this after hearing parent after parent tell him and his boss, Merryl Tisch, that their kids are faking illness so that they don't have to go to school because they hate the Common Core so much, after a union leader told him about a new illness called Common Core syndrome th
It's Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Agenda
There's a lot of attention aimed at NYSED Commissioner King and Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch over the state education reform agenda, but let's remember that while King and Tisch are the people out front selling the agenda, in the end this is Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's education reform agenda.Start making calls to Governor Cuomo and let him know what you think about his agenda, how much you disl
NYSED Commissioner King Compares Himself To Martin Luther King Jr.
I bet you're thinking, nah, he didn't do that.Yeah, he did - on Tuesday.Jessica Bakeman had the story at Capital NY.Here's the set-up:ALBANY—In a keynote speech to teachers on Tuesday, education commissioner John King began by describing a cartoon about turkeys who revolt to avoid becoming Thanksgiving dinner, and he ended by comparing the state's adoption of the Common Core standards to the U.S.
11-13-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Good News From Tish JamesGood to hear her get very specific about education and where she would like to see the de Blasio administration go:Over the course of the campaign, de Blasio made some of his own educational priorities clear: universal pre-K, a plan to charge well-financed charter school networks to operate in public space, a moratorium on school closures, and the el