Showing posts with label MaryEllen Elia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MaryEllen Elia. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

How About Teaching Cursive Again?

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From the NY Post: ALBANY — Many Big Apple students, including the children of several state lawmakers, can’t even sign their own names, ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Note To MaryEllen Elia, NY Pols And NY Press: Test Scores Are Still Part Of APPR Evaluations

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Keshia Clukey at Politico NY: ALBANY — As education commissioner MaryEllen Elia updated a Senate panel on her agency's 2016 prioriti...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

MaryEllen Elia Says You'll Be Able To "Touch" All The Wonderful Changes Coming In Education

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MaryEllen Elia, on the propaganda trail: ALBANY — Substantive changes will be made to testing, teacher evaluations and the Common Core l...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Cuomo Administration Official Criticizes MaryEllen Elia's Common Core Plan

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Division between Cuomo and Elia/NYSED on Common Core and the Endless Testing regime (via State of Politics): As the battle over potentia...
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Ridiculous NYSED Claim About Common Core Support Will Add To Opt Out Numbers

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Yesterday NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said 71.5% of respondents to the rigged NYSED survey about Common Core support the standards. C...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

NYSED Uses Rigged Survey To Claim 71.5% Back Common Core

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No wonder NYSED made the Common Core survey so long and complicated - they were going to use it to claim they have wide support for their re...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Should The Buffalo Teachers Federation And NYSUT Go To Court Over Union Busting In Buffalo?

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It has been reported in various places that the Buffalo Teachers Federation, with the help of NYSUT, are looking at taking the state to cour...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Lawsuit Over Elia/Cuomo Union Busting To Have National Implications

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In the spring Andrew Cuomo pushed through a school receivership law that allows the state to take control of "struggling" and ...
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Monday, November 9, 2015

NYSED Commissioner Elia Looks To Bust Buffalo Teachers Union

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Herein lies the endgame for "receivership": In one of her most significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen ...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia Declares War On Opt Out Movement

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NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia sent out a letter to superintendents around the state touting an NYSED "toolkit" for districts t...
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Thursday, November 5, 2015

MaryEllen Elia Provides A Toolkit To Repaint The Common Core And Put On A Whole New Show

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NYSED has put up an "Assessments Toolkit" for superintendents that basically boils down to "Tests are awesome!" and ...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

Fred LeBrun: Cuomo May Cave On Common Core/Testing Because His Poll Numbers Suck

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Governor Cuomo's poll numbers are not only underwater, they're deep underwater. In the last Siena poll, Cuomo stands with 40% job ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

How Did Mary Ellen Elia Get Hired At NYSED Given the Mess She Left In Hillsborough?

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The Tampa Times has another piece about the mess former Hillsborough Superintendent MaryEllen Elia left in the school district as a result ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Chancellor Farina Claims Almost A "Celebratory Attitude" Around Renewal Schools

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Eliza Shapiro at Politico NY, writing about a joint appearance between NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and NYCDOE Chancellor Carmen Farina...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Message To MaryEllen Elia Over Those Teachers She Wants To Work In "Struggling Schools"

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From the Times Union: State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia called on teacher educators across the state Thursday to train future...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Cuomo's Common Core Panel Rigged With Pro-Common Core Supporters

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From the Buffalo News: A task force created by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to review the state’s controversial Common Core standards will inclu...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Cuomo Says He Hears Parent Concerns Over Common Core, But Chooses Rubber Stamp Commission For Review Process

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From the "Sure you've heard parent complaints" file: Cuomo’s office released a video featuring the governor, who acknowledg...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia: I Don't Care What Voters Think About Common Core

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Keshia Clukey at http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/09/8577777/elia-new-common-core-poll-we-cannot-go-backwards Politico NY: ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Elia Announces Online Testing, State Moves Forward On Broadband Push

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Coincidence? ALBANY — New York state’s third through eighth grade students could be putting away their number 2 pencils and instead comp...
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