Board Of Regents Look Like They're Caving To Cuomo On APPR
Looks like Merryl Tisch got the message from Andy Cuomo on APPR:The full state Board of Regents had second thoughts about the most high-profile proposed reform to the Common Core implementation as announced on Monday: a mechanism that would allow teachers whose evaluations are imperiled by low student test scores (20 percent of a teacher’s score) to claim that the deficient scores were due to impr
StudentsFirstNY Jenny Sedlis Says "Special Interests" Must Not Be Allowed To Delay The Common Core
Because anybody who is not on board 100% with the education reform agenda is, of course, a special interest:“We must not allow criticism manufactured by special interests to turn back the clock on teacher evaluations and higher standards,” StudentsFirstNY executive director Jenny Sedlis said.The irony of a Gates/Broad/Bloomberg-funded organization unaccountable to the people of this state which ha
The Common Core State Standards Themselves Are Flawed
A commenter in at the Times Union:What both the Regents and Cuomo have a blind eye to is that the standards themselves are flawed. Until they accept this fact, the parents will never rest. They are the ones who have to directly deal with the abuse of their children being foisted under the guise of reform. Neither of them stops this. A delay of testing repercussions is a panacea to the unions, a fe
The Fight Over Teacher Evaluations
In the Times article on Cuomo's shrill reaction to the Regents CCSS delay recommendations is this:A working group of the Board of Regents on Monday recommended several changes to how the state’s schools use the Common Core. It did not call for a moratorium as legislators have done, but it proposed letting teachers who earn the poorest evaluations — “ineffective” — to raise the bumpy Common Core ro
Chris Cerf Leaving As New Jersey Education Commissioner
Probably got nothing to do with BridgeGate, but another member of the Christie crew is slinking out:New Jersey Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf, who pushed for charter schools to give parents more choices and helped draft a landmark tenure law with the state’s powerful teachers union, is stepping down at the end of this month, according to a report in The Record.The newspaper is reporting t
Cuomo's Common Core/APPR Dilemma
Sheriff Andy got shrill with the Regents today over their announced changes to the state's ed reform agenda - particularly over the changes announced around teacher evaluations:After the Regents approved an action plan for improving implementation of the Common Core standards, Cuomo honed in on a regulatory change that would temporarily cushion educators whose evaluations were negatively affected
2-10-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Today's Board Of Regents MeetingFrom the Daily Politics update this morning:From our Ken Lovett in Albany: * It’s not that often that a Board of Regents meeting can be called “much anticipated.” But give the controversy surrounding the implementation of the Common Core curriculum, today’s meeting could get interesting. Very interesting. State lawmakers on both sides of the a