City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña told Albany legislators last week that the current cap on the number of charter schools should remain and that a recent proposal by Governor Cuomo to increase the weight of state testing in Teacher evaluations was ill-advised.
“I think 50 percent based on tests is too much,” she said. “I think it creates more of a high stakes for testing that in any given day, any one child could be taking a test and any number of things can happen.”
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