[Y]esterday, Cuomo elected not to sign a bill that would have prevented students’ Common Core-related test scores from impacting teacher evaluations. The proposed legislation was the result of negotiations between Cuomo and the State Legislature after parents, teachers, and students were outraged by the state’s fumbled roll out of the new curriculum. Cuomo said that hes not satisfied with the legislation, which essentially gives the vast majority of the states teachers passing scores even though student achievement in New York doesnt reflect that level of effectiveness. The legislation was intended to hold students and teachers harmless after the first round of test scores under Common Core plummeted around the state. The bill would have given educators more time to work with the new approach. New York State United Teachers, the state’s largest teachers union, supported the bill.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:20:56 +0000
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