FACT SHEET
June 2, 2010 armed with a set of guidelines and recommendations provided by the US Dept of Ed. the National Governors Association for Best Practices met over a 2 day seminar to “ratify” final recommendations to the current administration for federal approval.
New York State as well as 44 other states. Texas, Alaska, Virginia, Nebraska, Minnesota, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico have refused to implement the Common Core Standards.
New York State school districts opposing Common Core because of student testing as a litmus for teacher performance. (Underlined are opposed)
- Averill Park
- Baldwinsville
- Bath
- Bedford
- Briarcliff Manor
- Candor
- Central Islip
- Central Square
- City School District of Albany
- Chappaqua Central
- Churchville-Chili (Letter to NYSED)
- Comsewoque
- Croton-Harmon
- Deer Park
- District/CEC 3 - Manhattan
- Districts/CEC 14, 20 AND 21- Brooklyn
- District/CEC 30- Queens
- East Greenbush
- Fairport
- Garrison
- Geneva
- Grand Island
- Great Neck
- Guilderland
- Haldance Central
- Hamburg Central
- Hastings-on-Hudson UFSD
- Herricks
- Hewlett-Woodmere
- Highland Falls
- Hauppauge
- Huntington Union Free School District
- Hyde Park Central
- Ichabod Crane
- Kingston
- Lyons
- Marion
- Middleburg
- Middletown
- Middle Country
- New Castle
- New Paltz
- Niagara Region PTA
- Niagara Wheatfield
- North Babylon
- North Bellmore
- North Syracuse School District
- Nyack
- Onteora
- Orchard Park
- Ossining
- Patchogue-Medford
- Pelham
- Pleasantville
- Red Hook
- Riverhead Central School District
- Sachem
- Saranac Lake
- Saratoga Springs
- Sayville
- Scarsdale
- Schoharie
- Sherburne-Earlville
- Shoreham-Wading River Central School District Resolution #1314-071 Overreliance on HST; 1314-072 HST
- Smithtown
- Solvay Union Free School District
- South County School District
- South Orangetown
- Southold
- Springville-Griffith (Field Tests Only)
- Starpoint
- Syracuse
- Three Villages School District
- Tonawanda City
- Rochester
- Rockland BOCES
- Rockville Centre
- Rondout Valley
- West Irondequoit
- West Islip
- West Seneca (Released a Statement of Concern)
- Westchester-Putnam School Board Association
Common Core is the following:
Math Standards
English Language Arts
National Sexuality Education Standards
Social Sciences C3
Next Generation Sciences Standards Combined by topic
National Core Arts Standards
CC ELA reading list pk-12 (1)
CC ELA readling list pk-12 (2)
CC ELA reading list 9-12
Career Development
Languages other than English
The SLDS, or State Longitudinal Data System will track all students federally. It is a PreK-grade 20 program. It is inter-accessibly with state agencies as well as other states. (more so than our criminal justice system) It is federally accessibly via the current Social Security and Schools Interoperability Framework.
Tracks data starting at birth (once birth certificate is generated). Then tracks into 4 groups: early learning, kindergarten-12, higher education and workforce education.
SLDS data is tied to state education funding from Federal government.
Created a change in definition of educator and guardians. Examples are:
“authorized representative” is now defined in the Common Core Standards as Any Entity or individual designated by the federal, state or local educational authority or agency headed by an official listed to conduct with respect to federal supported education programs, any audit or evaluation or any compliance or enforcement activity in connections with Federal legal requirements that relate to education programs.
“education agency” has been defined as any agency that is effected by a students education.
“education program” any program that develops a student
**Parental consent is listed under the Dept of Edu 34 CFR Part 99 Family Education Rights and Privacy as a best practice only, not a necessity.
Not required yet, but will be a driving force into college admission, meaning eliminating home schooling, etc.
Standards: by 12 grade 30% classic literature 70% informational text
No cursive
Why
In 2010, the New York State Education Department secured Race to
the Top Funding from the U.S. Department of Education. In exchange for
$700 Million in funding, the state education department made various
commitments related to educational standards, testing, a teacher
evaluation system, and data collection.
References/Resources
MATH STANDARDS
ENGLISH STANDARDS
NYS Pre-K COMMON CORE STANDARDS
NAT’L SEXUALITY STANDARDS
Additonal Information
InBloom program relates to the collection of 400 data points from our children. Common Core standard application to public school now includes a waiver for the students HIPPA rights. In place to be implemented in July 2014. (Common Core forces government to change FERPA and HIPPA regs to not be in violation of the law.)
EngageNY program was paid for by NYS taxpayers, (costs millions) to create curriculum in line with Common Core standards. Fed offered curriculum, but state’s had option to pay for “custom” curriculum.
The testing requirements for Common Core standardized tests requires all students to take CBL test. (computer based learning) at the same time on the same day. The bandwidth to have all of these students taking an internet based test, and the sheer cost of computers and internet needed for this, gives pause for future expenses to NYS taxpayers.
Starting in 1st grade, reading requires “close reading” a technique usually reserved for high school or college.
Common Core is copywritten, meaning that the teacher’s can’t add or take away content, they must teach EXACTLY what is there. Morna McDermott, a 25-year veteran educator with two children in Baltimore County public schools, said the standards limit a teacher’s ability to deviate from what is being taught. McDermott is also co-founder of United Opt Out, a national organization dedicated to eliminating testing accountability in public education by encouraging a national opt out movement.“It reduces, if not outright eliminates, the child’s teachers’ flexibility to teach to the children,” McDermott said. “It is copyrighted, and while things can be added they cannot be taken away.”
Standards are 300 pages, base, but only 2 pages relate to students with special needs, disabilities, or IEP.
Example of New York State Kindergarten Math
Example of New York State 5th grade Social Studies
Examples of New York State 3rd grade math