By Robert Pondiscio | New York Daily News
“Ten years ago students would come to my South Bronx fifth-grade classroom still adding and subtracting on their fingers, yet somehow these same students were deemed proficient on their state tests. It was a lie, and we knew it.
Gov. Cuomo seems determined to bring back those bad old days of low standards, dumbed-down tests and sending hundreds of thousands of New York children out into the world utterly unprepared for college, career or even running a cash register.”