Teachers union not ready to reverse no confidence vote in education commissioner
Karen DeWitt
The president of the state’s teachers’ union says members are not yet ready to rescind a vote of no confidence in state Education Commissioner John King, despite improved relations in recent months.
New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee was elected in April amid deep dissatisfaction over education policy in New York. Magee ousted a three-term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in King, over what critics call a botched roll out of the new Common Core learning standards.
Magee says the union and the commissioner are getting along better now, and he realizes that problems need to be fixed but she says teachers are not ready yet to change the judgment they made in the spring.
“I can’t say that if I went out to the members today the members would say ‘Oh let’s take away our vote of no confidence,’” Magee said. “We’re not at that place yet.”
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