New York State Senator: Concerns About Common Core Not Limited to Small Contingent
State Senator George Latimer (D-Westchester) the ranking member on the New York Senate Education Committee wrote an op/ed for the Times Union. An excerpt:There are many issues with New York’s implementation of Common Core, and the concerns are not limited to a small contingent, as some have suggested. Real people who have students in schools and are of every ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, age and geographic makeup share reservations about the Common Core. It is also an issue that does not pit Democrats versus Republicans; it is truly about the students……The critics of elements of the Common Core, myself included, are not against having
Connecticut Department of Education Says No to Opting Out of Assessments
Connecticut has received a number of parental opt-out requests from assessments. Steve Martin, an education consultant with the Connecticut State Department of Education last month wrote a two page primer on the “background, history and suggested protocols for addressing parent requests for students to ‘opt-out’ of mandated state testing.”The Department is tells local education agencies fielding