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Niccoli, a town supervisor in Palatine, said last year she and her husband decided with their daughter she would not take a round of standardized testing in math and English language arts based on the Common Core standards.

Lawmakers last year agreed to linking Common Core - based testing to the results of teacher performance evaluations, a measure that was sought by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and linked to a boost in school aid.

Backlash over the rollout of the Common Core learning standards, along with aligned state tests and new teacher evaluations, came to a head last April when more than 20 percent of the state's eligible students refused to take the state standardized math and English language arts exams.

The movement has had a stark impact on the number of students in grades 3 - 8 in Nassau and Suffolk counties taking state tests since 2012 — the last year that non-Common Core tests were given.

Locally, Charles Russo, superintendent of East Moriches schools, was one of the few educators to speak in favor of Common Core testing at forums that featured then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., held last year and in late 2013.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

The proposal to clamp a four - year hold on using student «growth» scores on Common Core tests in evaluating teachers was advanced just last Thursday by an advisory task force appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

New York might lose out on $ 300 million in federal funding if last - minute negotiations on teacher and principal evaluations disconnect Common Core test scores from final ratings.

Flaws in many students» test booklets during the English language arts exam last week spurred complaints from frustrated school officials, who say the errors further undermine confidence in the Common Core assessments — already repudiated by Long Island parents pulling their children from the exams in record numbers.

Lawmakers as well as advocacy and parent groups last week challenged King to resign after he canceled (and subsequently rescheduled) a series of public forums on the Common Core standards and related testing.

In the last days of the 2014 legislative session, Cuomo negotiated with New York State United Teachers for a temporary solution, introduced a program bill creating a «safety net» for educators whose ratings were detrimentally affected by students» low Common Core test scores and advanced the legislation with a «message of necessity,» allowing lawmakers to pass it before gaveling out for the summer.

The bill would ensure that schools can notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in Common Core standardized tests, protects schools from having state aid withheld & ensures that students are not punished for their lack of participation in those tests, and it would set - aside alternate studies, Last year, parents of 60,000 students refused New York State Common Core tests.

Forty - five states adopted the Common Core standards, but only New York and Kentucky began testing in this last school year.

«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.

The dissatisfaction with the Common Core learning standards and associated standardized tests led to 20 % of students boycotting the tests last spring.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Common Core Task Force finished its public sessions last month examining the state's standards and testing program, and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has already pledged to shorten math and English Language Arts (ELA) exams.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he would consider «legislative changes» to address parents» concerns about the rigorous Common Core standards, on which New York schools started testing some students last April.

Last year 60,000 students opted out across the state, refusing to take the Common Core standardized tests.

The state Education Department released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

Dissatisfaction with Common Core and its related tests has led to one - fifth of students boycotting the third through eighth grade math and English exams last spring.

In the final days of the New York legislative session, which ended last week in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders reached an agreement on a two - year delay in the teacher assessments to be based on the Common Core testing.

Last year, 20 percent of New York students refused to take state tests, aligned to the Common Core standards for higher achievement.

The state Education Department on Wednesday released 75 percent of the questions on Common Core tests given in April to students statewide in grades three through eight — up from 50 percent of questions made public last year — and pledged that more information will be given in years to come.

State Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) has asked local superintendents to meet with their school's community members — including parents, students, teachers, and PTAs — to organize their comments and questions relating to Common Core, teacher evaluations, standardized testing and student privacy, and submit them to his office by last Thursday.

Unions and parents groups rallied last April when New York became the second state to begin testing based on the Common Core, a set of learning standards that aim to give students a deeper understanding of material and boost skills necessary for the modern job market.

The dissatisfaction with the Common Core learning standards and associated standardized tests led to 20 percent of students boycotting the tests last spring.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Common Core test results were released last month to little fanfare and no official statement by the City School District of New Rochelle.

In a rare show of unity on a controversial issue, leaders of both the State Senate and Assembly last week advocated a two - year moratorium that would decouple Common Core - aligned test scores with teacher evaluations and student - placement decisions.

Over the last several months, discussions of the Common Core State Standards have been eclipsed by the public's reaction to major issues which have arisen in their implementation — issues such as declining student test scores, and the role of such test scores in teacher evaluations, evaluations mandated if a state was to receive its share of federal money from the «Race to the Top» funds.

Planetary Resources — which last year deployed a demonstration vehicle into low - Earth orbit to test core avionics, navigation, and computing systems — is soon to deploy another vehicle to test remote sensing capacities.

Last week, West and Peterson discussed findings from the survey about Common Core, testing and school choice.

With the release last week of half of the test questions from the most recent round of New York State Common Core ELA / Literacy and math tests, we can now begin to see if the tests are, as one New York principal insisted last spring, «confusing, developmentally inappropriate and not well aligned with the Common Core standards.»

Testing has been a hot - button issue for the last several years (coinciding with the Common Core rollout).

I had planned last week to devote my U.S. News column to Common Core testing, opting out, and what parents need to know as testing ramps up in earnest.

But last fall, the Massachusetts Board of Education decided to create a new test that would combine elements of the MCAS with elements of the Common Core - aligned PARCC test.

That's why last spring I called for a moratorium — not on the standards or even on the testing, but on the stakes that could unfairly hurt students, teachers and schools during this transition to the Common Core.

Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped from 76 percent in 2013 to only 46 percent in 2014.

Last week, on the recommendation of state education commissioner Mitchell Chester, the state's education board decided to revamp its famed Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) and drop plans to retire MCAS for the Common Core — aligned PARCC test.

Georgia last week became the fifth state to pull out of the nationwide efforts to create the same tests for the new Common Core standards.

Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

Last spring more than 3 million students in California, the largest number ever to take an online test in the state, took field tests of new assessments aligned to the Common Core state standards without major technical breakdowns or system crashes, according to state officials.

And last month, citing the voices of teachers across the country, Secretary Duncan gave states an extra year to get the Common Core right, before making Common Core - aligned tests count.

Results from the initial round of Common Core - aligned tests (administered last spring) have been trickling out for the past few weeks in more than a dozen states.

In New York, slightly more students opted out of the Common Core aligned state test this spring than did last year, according to the state's Department of Education.

According to a Gallup poll last fall, one in eight teachers thinks that the worst thing about the Common Core is testing.

On top of that, the Common Core is set up so that it is very difficult for teachers to go back and reteach content from last year, so getting results months after the administration of the test will do nothing to aid remediation or close achievement gaps.

Oklahoma isn't pulling out of the Common Core assessment consortium PARCC, but state education officials last week announced plans to design their own test.

(New York students were tested on the Common Core for the first time last spring, even though many schools had not yet connected all their lessons to the new standards.)

However, at the board's last meeting in November, Patricia Rucker, a board member who is a former teacher and now a legislative lobbyist for the California Teachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate training in it.

Last April she called for a moratorium on high - stakes Common Core tests, and she made a call in November with early childhood education expert Nancy Carlsson - Paige for education officials to convene a task force to review the «appropriateness and the implementation of the Common Core standards for young learners... and recommend developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive guidelines for supporting young children's optimal learning.»