Cooper briefly addressed the commission Tuesday, moments after a panel of local school superintendents bemoaned chronic struggles in recruiting educators, funding shortages and the loss of students to a growing school choice movement. (ncpolicywatch.com)
At 2:45 p.m., Heastie meets with local school superintendents and Regent Roger Tilles, Herricks Community Center, 999 Herricks Rd., New Hyde Park. (nystateofpolitics.com)
With the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Testing program beginning later this month, Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education issued a decree late today instructing local school superintendents that all public school children in grades 3 - 8 and grade 11 MUST take the SBAC Common Core Tests. (jonathanpelto.com)