Cuomo says Common Core rollout is ‘too hasty’
Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in Buffalo offering a summary of his executive budget proposal and talking about new IBM jobs, said the implementation of the Common Core standards has been “too hasty” and needs to be slowed down.
While the demand for a slowdown of the State Education Department’s rollout of the new national standards — and the related use of tests to measure student accomplishment for use in teacher evaluations — has been part of the rhetoric of Common Core opponents for most of the past year, Cuomo himself has until recently held back on calling the problem a matter of excessive speed.
Instead, the governor has in recent weeks acknowledged unspecified mismanagement in the implementation plan developed by SED. Last week, he emphasized that he feels common cause with Common Core opponents and said the Board of Regents had “utterly failed.”
Earlier this month his Director of Communications Melissa DeRosa released a statement saying it would be “premature” to place a moratorium on the implementation until a Cuomo-appointed panel has done its own analysis of SED’s work.
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