Teacher evaluations, testing, and college and career readiness. These are all common and sometimes heated topics of discussion among teachers, school leaders, parents and education reformers. But on Tuesday high school students throughout New York State were the ones taking on those issues.
A number of student reporters participated in a statewide video press conference. And as WXXI’s Hélène Biandudi Hofer reports, they all had a lot of questions for New York Education Commissioner, John King.