Sentences with phrase «rocky rollout»

Evers has been promoted by Democrats and criticized by Republicans for his 2010 adoption of the controversial Common Core academic standards, and criticized for the DPI's rocky rollout of a new state test to measure their effect on student learning.

Unlike in other states where governors were intimately involved with Common Core implementation, Cuomo has largely stayed out of the process, letting state education commissioner John King and the state Board of Regents take the heat from parents and teachers over the rocky rollout.

The Regents, which are elected by a joint session of the State Legislature, approved a slate of regulatory and policy changes last week that are meant to address teachers», parents» and lawmakers» concern about the rocky rollout of the more difficult curriculum guidelines.

Lawmakers, teachers» unions and the state Board of Regents have presented plans recently to temporarily change the evaluations in order to protect educators from being penalized for the rocky rollout of the more rigorous Common Core standards.

Klein said state leaders are discussing how to hold harmless both students and teachers from the rocky rollout of the standards.

«Common Core is an issue about which there has been a lot of dialogue,» Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa said in a statement Tuesday that both affirms the standards and distances the administration from its rocky rollout.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has appointed a task force to study the rocky rollout of the Common Core academic standards in New York and develop recommendations for improvement, the Albany Times Union reports.

A Board of Regents task force had its first meeting today to begin its review of the rocky rollout of the standards, which have upset many parents and teachers.

If you can stomach even more communication about the early access sandbox, check out this Gamasutra interview with Creative Director Joel Bylos in which he talks about Conan Exiles» Zelda influences, the rocky rollout of the Xbox One version, and the studio's decision - making process.

On July 23, I wrote about the rocky rollout, prior to peer review, of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous.»