Common Core: Cuomo vetoes his own teacher evaluation bill

In June, Gov. Andrew Cuomo negotiated and proposed a bill that claimed to “protect New York’s standing as a national leader in teacher evaluation.”

Six months later, Cuomo vetoed the very same bill, saying it doesn’t “fix the foundational issues with the teacher evaluation system.”

Cuomo late Monday rejected his own legislation, which would have temporarily removed Common Core-based student test scores from the evaluation scores of teachers who rated poorly. The veto came after the state Education Department released the latest round of evaluation scores, which showed 95 percent of New York public teachers were rated “effective” or ...