NY Board Of Regents Postpones Using Common Core Scores

Students and teachers will be "held harmless" from the results of the Common Core tests until the 2019-20 school year, the state Board of Regents said Monday, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

The state Board of Regents voted to postpone using controversial Common Core test scores to assess students and teachers until 2019-20.
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Donna Christopher

12/16/2015 12:00 p.m.

The board's committee voted on panel recommendations upon its review of the standardized tests and their usefulness to assess student and teacher performance, the article says.

The committee is composed of the full board, it says.

State educators have wanted a delay in utilizing the tests to make the assessments due to a "flawed rollout" of the Common Core tests in 2014, according to the Poughkeepsie Journal.

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