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May 2, 2014

Brooklyn Teachers Refuse to Administer Common Core Test 
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At a May Day rally in New York City's Union Square, teacher Rosie
Frishella said she was among those standing up against academic
standards known as Common Core, which have been federally approved and
adopted by states including New York. Teachers at Frishella's school in
Brooklyn are refusing to administer an English Language Arts test
designed to measure Common Core standards.

Rosie Frishella: "My name is Rosie Frishella, I'm a 12th grade English
teacher at the International High School at Prospect Heights, and today
I stood with 29 other teachers and staff members and we refused to give
the ELA performance-based assessment. The reason we refused to give it
is because the first assessment was traumatizing for our students. They
were demoralized, they put their heads down and they cried. It was way
above their reading level, and the city was careless and took no
consideration for the needs of English language learners and we refuse
to demoralize our students."

 

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