The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school
curriculum, ending
standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall,
allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.
Standardized curriculum and assessments were the norm, and a fixation on efficiency increased classroom sizes while
allowing a large percentage of students to dropout and / or be funneled through the school - to - prison pipeline.