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  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Jeffrey Dinowitz

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    Name: Jeffrey Dinowitz Assembly Link: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Jeffrey-Dinowitz Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Dinowitz Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Jeffrey_Dinowitz Phone: 718-796-5345 Assembly-member  Dinowitz claims the typical “the test is not the problem” position.  He gives no solutions to “the real problem”, just that it’s not the fact we use the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for access to Specialized High Schools. Media: Assemblyman…

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Ron T. Kim

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    Name: Ron T. KimAssembly Link: https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Ron-KimWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kim_(politician)Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Ron_Kim_(New_York_assemblyman)Phone: 718-445-0004 Assembly-member  Ron T. Kim seats on the Democrat Senate’s Education Committee.  He’s a proponent of keeping the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for access to Specialized High Schools. Media: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-carl-heastie-school-desegregation-20180607-story.html Response to 2018 SHSAT Results After lobbying to kill the 2018 SHSAT reform bill, Assembly-member Kim…

  • ASSEMBLY VOTES HIGH SCHOOL CURB

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    This is one of the original New York Times articles reporting on the passage of the Hecht-Calandra law. New York City Democrats split into emotionally charged camps to day as the Assembly passed a bill designed to limit the Board of Education’s power to alter the city’s four specialized high schools. The measure passed, 107…