{"id":354,"date":"2014-04-24T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=354"},"modified":"2014-04-24T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T20:37:53","slug":"controversy-over-common-core-in-northern-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/04\/24\/controversy-over-common-core-in-northern-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy over Common Core in Northern NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plattsburgh, NY: 47% students not taking the Common Core exams. They can sit and read.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nPLATTSBURGH, N.Y. &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>With the arrival of spring comes the arrival of end-of-year exams in schools. But this year something unusual is taking place. Some students are refusing to take the tests and educators are saying OK.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had a record number of parents choose to refuse to have their students take the tests,&#8221; said James Short, the superintendent of the Plattsburgh City School District.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the Common Core exams. These are exams almost every state in nation recently introduced to schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High school graduating seniors today across the country are not well prepared for post-secondary education, including college, but other kinds of post-secondary education as well, that lead to careers,&#8221; said James Dawson of the New York State Board of Regents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcax.com\/story\/25324152\/controversy-over-common-core-in-northern-ny\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plattsburgh, NY: 47% students not taking the Common Core exams. They can sit and read. PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. &#8211; With the arrival of spring comes the arrival of end-of-year exams in schools. But this year something unusual is taking place. Some students are refusing to take the tests and educators are saying OK. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opt-out","category-testing","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}