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Audience at a community forum held in November in Eastport where parents and teachers confronted Education Commissioner John King. (File photo: Micah Danney)

Governor’s Common Core task force: ‘It’s time to right the ship’

by Dec 10, 2015
A task force appointed by the governor to review the Common Core standards in response to the outcry by parents and educators has issued its report faulting the way the state implemented the new standards and offering 21 recommendations for action, including using Common Core-aligned assessments as advisory only until 2019-2020.