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New York’s ‘shoddy’ Common Core rollout puts special-needs students at risk; a veteran teacher demands a moratorium

My mother died suddenly last month and my father is in prison.  There are five of us now from 8 to 17 years old who are essentially orphaned. We were just evicted and now I’m sleeping on my grandmother’s floor along with my mother, her boyfriend, my four brothers and our two dogs. It is […]