FrankRep
10-13-2013, 06:45 AM
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Dr. John B. King, Jr., Commissioner of Education
Email: jking@mail.nysed.gov
Is John King scared of criticism?
Common Core meetings canceled (http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20131013/NEWS01/310130023/Common-Core-meetings-canceled)
Town hall events nixed due to parent criticism
Poughkeepsie Journal
Oct. 13, 2013
Parents are upset by an announcement that the state education commissioner’s office suspended four upcoming town hall meetings on the newly-implemented Common Core standards following a meeting last week at Spackenkill High School, according to the New York State PTA.
A loud and often critical crowd filled the Spackenkill auditorium Thursday for a meeting with Education Commissioner John King. The crowd challenged him and offered sometimes angry comments on the new learning standards, which were developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and adopted by many states, according to Journal archives.
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“I believe that Commissioner King is running away. He doesn’t want to be challenged by the parents or anybody else,” said Lisa DiStefano, 38, a mother of three from Pleasant Valley, who attended the meeting Thursday.
DiStefano said if parents no longer have a say in their children’s education, that the state Education Department is “acting as an authoritarian, telling us we don’t want to listen because you no longer have any rights.”
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Oct. 11, 2013: Commissioner King addresses big, critical crowd on Common Core
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20131011/NEWS01/310110053/Commissioner-King-addresses-big-critical-crowd-Common-Core
Oct. 12, 2013: Parents Boo NY Commissioner John King and Boo the Common Core Too
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/10/12/parents-boo-ny-commissioner-john-king-and-boo-the-common-core-too/
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Background on Common Core:
Common Core: Dangers And Threats To American Liberty And Education (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epo2oWoL7ZE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epo2oWoL7ZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epo2oWoL7ZE
Ben Swann Exposes Common Core Curriculum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU
Common Core: A Scheme to Rewrite Education (http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16192-common-core-a-scheme-to-rewrite-education)
Common Core — new national education standards that the federal government is bribing and coercing states to adopt — will harm students, not benefit them.
Orwellian Nightmare: Data-mining Your Kids (http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16193-orwellian-nightmare-data-mining-your-kids)
Being implemented hand in hand with the new national curriculum standards being pushed on schools, called Common Core, is government surveillance of students.
Dr. John B. King, Jr., Commissioner of Education
Email: jking@mail.nysed.gov
Is John King scared of criticism?
Common Core meetings canceled (http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20131013/NEWS01/310130023/Common-Core-meetings-canceled)
Town hall events nixed due to parent criticism
Poughkeepsie Journal
Oct. 13, 2013
Parents are upset by an announcement that the state education commissioner’s office suspended four upcoming town hall meetings on the newly-implemented Common Core standards following a meeting last week at Spackenkill High School, according to the New York State PTA.
A loud and often critical crowd filled the Spackenkill auditorium Thursday for a meeting with Education Commissioner John King. The crowd challenged him and offered sometimes angry comments on the new learning standards, which were developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and adopted by many states, according to Journal archives.
...
“I believe that Commissioner King is running away. He doesn’t want to be challenged by the parents or anybody else,” said Lisa DiStefano, 38, a mother of three from Pleasant Valley, who attended the meeting Thursday.
DiStefano said if parents no longer have a say in their children’s education, that the state Education Department is “acting as an authoritarian, telling us we don’t want to listen because you no longer have any rights.”
....
Oct. 11, 2013: Commissioner King addresses big, critical crowd on Common Core
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20131011/NEWS01/310110053/Commissioner-King-addresses-big-critical-crowd-Common-Core
Oct. 12, 2013: Parents Boo NY Commissioner John King and Boo the Common Core Too
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/10/12/parents-boo-ny-commissioner-john-king-and-boo-the-common-core-too/
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Background on Common Core:
Common Core: Dangers And Threats To American Liberty And Education (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epo2oWoL7ZE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epo2oWoL7ZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epo2oWoL7ZE
Ben Swann Exposes Common Core Curriculum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU
Common Core: A Scheme to Rewrite Education (http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16192-common-core-a-scheme-to-rewrite-education)
Common Core — new national education standards that the federal government is bribing and coercing states to adopt — will harm students, not benefit them.
Orwellian Nightmare: Data-mining Your Kids (http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16193-orwellian-nightmare-data-mining-your-kids)
Being implemented hand in hand with the new national curriculum standards being pushed on schools, called Common Core, is government surveillance of students.