Re: Dissension in the N.Y. Ranks?

[William Cala <wcala@ROCHESTER.RR.COM>]

Having met privately with the ONLY member of the Board of Regents
sympathetic to our concern about HST, I don't think there is much
dissention.  With the exception of one, they are blind as bats.

Interesting in this article that Hayden is quoted  "But right now, all the
information before us suggests that the results are improving across the
board."  I have challenged the Regents and the researchers doing a damage
control study (Monk, Sipple, et. al.) for SED to show me ONE improving
result.  To date:  NO REPLY

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Levine" <eddie185@YAHOO.COM>
To: <ARN-L@listsrva.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 9:50 AM
Subject: Dissension in the N.Y. Ranks?


> Carl Hayden's resignation seems a sure sign that there's dissension
> among the N.Y. State Board of Regents.  It's like the Enron execs
> quitting "to spend more time with the family."  You just KNOW that
> there's more here than meets the eye. (Of course, as long as
> Commissioner Mills is in office, no child will go untested.  Once
> upon a time, Rick Mills was part of the solution ... that strains
> credibility nowadays.)
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/01/education/01REGE.html
>
> February 1, 2002
> Chancellor of Regents to Step Down
> By ABBY GOODNOUGH
>
> Carl T. Hayden announced yesterday that he would resign as chancellor
> of the State Board of Regents in March, after holding the post for 7
> years and serving as a Regent for 12.
>
> Mr. Hayden has been a staunch and outspoken ally of Richard P. Mills,
> the state education commissioner, in the quest to raise standards for
> students, schools and teachers and in particular, to toughen
> graduation requirements.
>
> The members of the Board of Regents, an independent body, are
> appointed to unpaid terms by the State Legislature and are charged
> with shaping state education policy. The board's policies became more
> aggressive under Mr. Hayden.
>
> Mr. Hayden, 60, said he was not seeking another term because he no
> longer had the energy to lead the Regents while working full time as
> a lawyer in Elmira. The Regents have recently been criticized by some
> school officials and legislators who say they raised the standards
> too high too quickly, but Mr. Hayden said his resignation was not a
> sign that they were reconsidering their decisions.
>
> Mr. Hayden, who will be leaving the board altogether, said, "I have
> made a point of keeping my finger on the pulse of my colleagues, and
> I can tell you there is no constituency for rolling back the
> standards."
>
> The Regents' most criticized policy change is the requirement that by
> 2005, all high school students will have to pass five Regents exams
> to graduate. The board is debating whether to delay a plan to raise
> the grade required to pass such exams to 65, from 55. Some Regents
> are worried that when the passing grade goes up, more than 40 percent
> of students in New York City and other large cities will fail.
>
> "We cannot be blind to the consequences of our actions," Mr. Hayden
> said yesterday. "But right now, all the information before us
> suggests that the results are improving across the board."
>
> The Regents will decide at their March meeting who among them will
> succeed Mr. Hayden as chancellor. One possibility raised by several
> Regents yesterday was Robert M. Bennett, a Regent from Buffalo.
>
>
>
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