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Common Core task force seeks to reduce tests

9/28/2015

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Joseph Spector Albany Bureau Chief5:30 p.m. EDT September 28, 2015

ALBANY – Union leaders, school-board officials, teachers and state leaders will among those serving on a task force aimed to finds ways to improve the controversial Common Core education standards in New York.

And they will be aiming to cut down on the testing.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to install the task force amid growing criticism of the tougher tests for students spurred by the national movement toward higher standards. The tests have also been used to install new teacher evaluations in New York, which has led to its own round of protests by teachers, parents and educators.  click here for full article: Via Poughkeepsie Journal


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