They said it couldn't be done, but today NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Common Core Task Force delivered a big old report in less time ...

When the budget gets tight or the lifeboat is crowded or the villagers are outside the gate, pitchforks in hand, you have to make some choic...

The New York charter school that had the highest jump in ELA test scores is also the charter school that decided to score their own tests. ...

Riverhead Charter School was first opened in 2001 in Calverton, NY. They started out as a K-5 school and have since moved up to K-8 status. ...

Polishing the Apple might well have been entitled Poisoning the Apple. The new report from Common Cause delineates just how much money has ...

T he expert names for the New York teacher evaluation high speed overhaul panel are in, and it is, at best, a mixed bag. * Thomas Kane, an...

The number of students opting out of the Big Standardized Test in New York State is still fluid, and we'll have more numbers shortly whe...

Given the heightened alarm of some New York official, this, I imagine, is what the news from this coming summer will look like. “Those wh...

The reports keep rolling in. New York families are opting out of the Big Standardized Test in unprecedented numbers, massive numbers, number...

Democracy Builders is a New York group whose goal is "to increase quality public school choice by recruiting, engaging and activating ...

The Kennmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District (generally known as the Ken-Ton district) has decided to stand down. You may re...

One of the achingly stupid portions of Andrew Cuomo's budgetary assault on education is the mandated use of outside evaluators. There ...

When reflecting on the new laws gutting the teaching profession in NY, I mused that Campbell Brown must be bummed that Andrew Cuomo had don...

This has truly been the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. An unpopular proposal that guts teaching as a profession and kicks public edu...

The situation with education as described by the New York State budget could best be described as fluid, like the contents of one of those l...

Well, that didn't take long. The Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda school board adopted a resolution Tuesday night (two nights ago as I write...

Last night was the night for the Ken-Ton School Board and their president Bob Dana to take a stand against the test-and-bully policies of Ne...

It appears that some board members of the Kennmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District (generally known as the Ken-Ton district) h...

I'll give Andrew Cuomo this-- when he makes threats to come after someone, they aren't just empty political promises. He said he wou...