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Anti-Common Core Rally at Senator John Flanagan's Office


Anti-Common Core Rally at Senator John Flanagan’s Office


Location: Senator John Flanagan, 260 Middle Country Road, Smithtown


Date: Friday, March 7, 2014

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Time: 12:00PM-2:00PM


Contact: Mary Calamia, 631-835-1824

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The Assembly democrats are about to rush through a piece of legislation (A8929) that leaves the CHILDREN out of the equation entirely. Governor Cuomo is backing this up with a media blitz citing testing as the central cause of the crisis in NYS schools.


Despite hours of testimony and hundreds of phone calls and letters, the Governor, Cathy Nolan, and the Assembly democrats DO NOT understand that the reason the Common Core standards are not working has nothing to do with the implementation and everything to do with the standards themselves.


With this legislation, they are essentially forcing our children to endure another two years of inappropriate curriculum and IEP violations.


For this legislation to become law, there must be a Senate companion bill. Senator Flanagan, as Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, must NOT allow that to happen.


We are rallying outside of Senator Flanagan’s office to DEMAND he support Senate bill S6604 and NOT to allow a Senate companion bill to A8929 to ever see the light of day.

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