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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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From State of Politics:The Cuomo administration on Wednesday is denying claims being made by Republican Rob Astorino’s gubernatorial campaign that a top aide sought to move the county executive to a less-than-prominent seat at an event featuring President Obama. Astorino spokeswoman Jessica Proud says the White House had initially offered to seat him in the front row at today’s announcement on the

Get Ready For Another Common Core/Civil Rights Speech From NYSED Commissioner John King
NYSED Commissioner King has already compared himself to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and said the education reform/Common Core fight is much like the fight for civil rights:Paraphrasing Martin Luther King, Jr., the commissioner said: “In a real sense, this afternoon, we can say that our feet are tired, but our souls are rested. “Change is hard,” he continued. “It is challenging, and it is tiring, bu


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Perdido Street School: Opt-Out Movement Posied To Grow Even BiggerFrom Gary Stern and Randi Weiner at LoHud:More than 3,140 students in the Lower Hudson Valley sat out the recent state math tests, an 84 percent increase over the number who opted out from the ELA tests only four weeks earlier.Overall, 3.4 percent of local students in grades 3-8 were directed by their parents to skip the math tests,