StudentsFirstNY called on the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board to investigate disturbing questions about a potential conflict of interest during the recently completed teachers’ contract negotiations.
Rob Astorino’s attempt to exploit confusion about the Common Core by creating a “Stop Common Core” ballot line takes brazen, cynical pandering to a new low.
President Obama and Secretary Duncan took an important step towards closing the achievement gap today by calling on states to closely examine whether great teachers are fairly distributed.
StudentsFirstNY believes in transparency and accountability for all public schools, which is why we have supported making this data public -- as it has been for some time. This legislation does not share any data that hasn't already been made publicly available -- it's just political theater for politicians looking to pander to powerful special interests.
