Governor Cuomo wasn’t in the building, but the 200 or so Teachers sitting in the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building in Harlem were feeling the heat last week during a forum on his education-policy proposals.
During his Jan. 21 State of the State address and budget presentation, the Governor unveiled a series of changes reviled by education unions that included increasing the weight of state tests to make up half of Teacher evaluations, increasing the number of charter schools permitted in the state by 100 and lengthening the time before Teachers can earn tenure. He has also tied a 4.8-percent state-aid increase (as opposed to a much-smaller formula-based rise) to the adoption of his proposals.
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