He has noted that common standards will allow schools and providers to focus on excelling against a common yardstick, instead of rewarding those able to game 50 different state education bureaucracies. (educationnext.org)
Going for the feds directly, as the entity gripping state education bureaucracies» leashes, will hopefully be far more effective. (thefederalist.com)
Plus, thanks to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who effectively appoints the state Board of Regents, the unions are regaining full control of the state education bureaucracy, which will make it even easier to stop teacher testing and, if «necessary,» water down the tests so they're not even a good measure of student achievement. (nypost.com)