The town of Princeton, with help from a Local Acquisitions for Natural
Diversity grant from the state, purchased a conservation restriction on this land to contribute to the property's protection.
There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a
grant from the New York
State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and
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