(Long Island, NY) Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I-East Patchogue) today issued the following statement on Gov. Cuomo’s “new” task force to reboot the Common Core standards:
“In announcing a new commission to investigate the problems with Common Core, Gov. Cuomo had a real chance to take the voices of hundreds of thousands of parents, children and educators into consideration and enact meaningful education reform. Instead, as per usual with this governor, he’s opted to hand pick another group of insiders and familiar faces.
“This can only mean one thing: the governor already has what he’ll deem ‘historic’ reforms in mind and selected a friendly group to sign off on them. His task force includes Richard Parsons, who chaired the governor’s 2012 education panel, the one that helped set the Common Core boondoggle into motion. It also includes others who served on that panel and a 2014 board that was ostensibly established to issue a report on Common Core, but never even issued a report.
“This new task force was an opportunity for the governor to include new faces and fresh perspectives from both sides of the political aisle and from the real stakeholders in our education system. Instead, the governor is again ignoring the voices of parents and teachers, choosing to once again put the direction of our education system in the hands of another panel with a pre-determined outcome.
“It’s a travesty that after promising an open, inclusive education reform process the governor is clearly following a pre-set, poll-chasing agenda. Our students and teachers deserve better.”
