According to press reports, the New York Board of Regents will select veteran educator Dr. Betty Rosa as Chancellor at its meeting next week. Rosa was born in Puerto Rico and educated in New York City. She has been a teacher, a principal, and a superintendent in the public schools in the Bronx. She has taught English language learners and children with disabilities.
Rosa was a member of the dissident group of Regents who questioned high-stakes testing, test-based teacher evaluation, the Common Core, and other aspects of the corporate reform movement. With her real-world experience, she brings a fresh perspective to the board that oversees education in the state.
She has the strong support of parent leaders in the opt out movement.
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New York has a great need for someone with the right kind of experience and good ideas.
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Please consider dismantling the egregious and harmful demands
of the Regents Reform Agenda.
Replace Common Core standards with NY’s previous standards.
Bring an END to the use of ANY test scores to evaluate teachers.
Replace APPR with the evaluation instruments that were previously developed by local districts. Eliminate the use of Danielson or Marzano rubrics.
END the punitive use of ANY tests.
No AYP.
No VAM
No SLOs
END the threat of receivership or take-overs.
STOP the siphoning of public money into charter schools.
STOP labeling elementary students as failures.
STOP labeling schools as failures.
Please PROMOTE multiple pathways for student success.
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Amen.
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I am hopeful that the first thing she does is announce that testing will end prior to this April’s travesty. As an alternative–she could announce that parents should not send their children to schools to engage in inappropriate assessments. Regardless, it will take a decade to overcome the damage inflicted on NY’s public schools by her arrogant, clueless predecessor–Merrryl Tusch.
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She is the only regent who has ever responded to my emails weighing in on education issues and I am not even in her district. I think she will be great.
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Betty Rosa shows hope in so many ways . . .
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She’ll be the first NYS Chancellor who has commented on this blog (did so a while back in support of Regent Cashin)!
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