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NYSUT responds after news that standardized tests will continue for grades 3-8 and high schoolers
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New York State United Teachers released the following statement today regarding the state’s plan for administration of standardized exams in grades 3–8 and high school if the U.S. Department of Education denies waivers of exam requirements:
“In a year that has been anything but standard, forcing states to administer standardized exams is just plain poor federal policy,” NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said. “The state is making the most of a bad situation by scaling back this year’s testing requirements and limiting stress on students who already have gone through so much. Commissioner Rosa, Chancellor Young and the Board of Regents are doing what’s necessary to put students
The strike’s momentum begins to wane on Monday, February 17, with numbers down to about seven hundred, but strikers continue to obstruct streets and disrupt classes. Some shout down Professor George Mosse as he attempts to lecture on European cultural history, but Mosse takes a historian’s view of the incident and is nonplussed. Late in the day, the Black People’s Alliance, WSA, and Third World Liberation Front issue a statement calling on students to return to class and engage their professors and classmates on the underlying issues.[i]
On Tuesday, BPA leader Willie Edwards tells a small rally of about 150 that the strike is officially suspended. Over the seven weekdays of the strike, attendance in classes on and around Bascom Hill has been off by about 10 percent, while the western campus generally had full attendance. That afternoon, about half the guardsmen are sent home, with the rest to follow on Thursday.[ii]
Madison in the Sixties - February 1969, the Black Studies Strike
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NYS Board of Regents elects first Black Chancellor
Dr.. Lester W. Young Jr. has more than 50 years of experience in public education and will assume his new role on January 12.
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Dr. Lester W. Young, Jr. Author: WGRZ Staff Updated: 11:17 AM EST January 11, 2021
ALBANY, N.Y. A downstate educator who began his career as a New York City School teacher has been elected as the NYS Board of Regents first Black chancellor.
Dr. Lester W. Young Jr., has more than 50 years of experience in public education and will assume his new role on January 12.
“Having worked with Regent Young for many years in our various roles in New York City and on the Board of Regents, I know there is no one more committed to achieving educational equity for all New York’s children,” Interim Commissioner Betty A. Rosa said. “Time and time again, Regent Young has demonstrated his courage, determination and steadfast obligation to helping ou
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