Teachers: "More Common Core Training, Less Summer Break"

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Teachers: "More Common Core Training, Less Summer Break"

Mar 26, 2014

A CRY FOR HELP: New York teacher-advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) is calling for practical improvements for Common Core rollouts, including a plan for teachers to exchange a week of summer break for “intensive” CCSS training. Right as NYC and teachers’ unions are negotiating new contracts, E4E released a report in which 7,000 NYC teachers (and members of E4E) request a paid week of summer PD, fixes to the new teacher evaluation system, and more.

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