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
Abraham Lincoln s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recording included in exhibition
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ALBANY, NY
.- The New York State Museum and the New York State Writers Institute have partnered to bring the First Step to Freedom exhibit to the University at Albany campus in honor of Black History Month, State Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced today. The historically remarkable exhibit includes a display of the only surviving version of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in President Abraham Lincolns handwriting. The First Step to Freedom also includes the only known audio recording of a speech written and delivered by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York City in September 1962 for the Proclamations centennial. The exhibit opened, appropriately, on Presidents Day and will be open to UAlbany students, faculty and staff through March 15.
Photo: File photo, News10NBC. Betty Rosa WHECTV Created: February 08, 2021 07:11 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) The New York State Education Department Monday announced Interim State Education Commissioner will stay on.
The Board of Regents unanimously appointed Dr. Betty Rosa as permanent Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York.
She s filled the role since August, and is the first Latina to serve as Education Commissioner.
New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) Executive Director Robert Schneider made the following statement on the decision: NYSSBA is pleased to congratulate Betty Rosa on her selection today as state Education Commissioner.
Rosa, in brief remarks to conclude a Zoom meeting, called for an educational renaissance in New York. Our state, our nation and the world are at a crossroads, she said. We must rebuild in new ways and on many levels. I submit that investing in education is foundational to our recovery and the future of our state and nation.
Rosa is the first Latina commissioner, as she was the first Latina chancellor of the Board of Regents from 2016 until she stepped down to serve as interim commissioner. She had served on the Board of Regents, representing the Bronx, since 2008.
Last month, the Regents chose Lester Young, a former Brooklyn principal, as their new chancellor, essentially the chairperson – the first Black chancellor in state history.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo continues his push to win several billion dollars in aid in the next federal COVID-19 relief package. The Democrat has sent a letter to New York’s Congressional delegation, saying the funding is “paramount” to the state’s recovery. Meanwhile, New York Education Commissioner Betty Rosa says she’s against a proposal by Cuomo to use money from a previous federal bailout to offset state funding. She says it wasn’t meant for that purpose.
Governor Cuomo says the state faces a $15 billion deficit for the current fiscal year and the next one, which begins in April. He says unless President Biden and Congress approve a bailout for state and local governments, there will have to be across the board cuts to state programs, including education. His budget proposal tries to mitigate those potential cuts by using the $4 billion in federal aid to help pay the state’s schools’ day-to-day expenses.