Leaders in N.Y. Flip-Flop on Common Core, Opt-Outs

Education Week: Education agendas can flip in what seems like a New York minute—at least in political time.

As recently as January 2015, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo had called for New York legislators to "bust up the monopoly of public schools," and referred to the state's 5-year-old teacher-evaluation system as "baloney." Decrying the state's lackluster academic results, he proposed to base up to half of teachers' evaluations on the state's standardized tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

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