Tag: Dimino

Dimino Refuses to Administer State Tests

PJSTA President Beth Dimino has notified the Comsewogue School District that she is refusing to administer state tests this spring. Via the Long Island Press… “I find myself at a point in the progress of education reform in which clear acts of conscience will be necessary to preserve the integrity of public education,” she writes. …

Stronger Together’s Meeting with Governor Cuomo

As momentum built toward’s the April 28th rally at Villa Lombardi’s to protest Governor Cuomo, one of the governor’s top aides, Joseph Percoco, reached out, through an intermediary, to the President of the Connetquot Teachers Association Tony Felicio.  Percoco offered Felicio, one of the rally’s organizers, a meeting with the governor to air his grievances in …

PJSTA President In Radio Interview

This morning PJSTA President Beth Dimino was on the Chuck Morse Radio Show fighting out against the Common Core.  Click here to listen.  Dimino’s part begins at 51:35.

Take Action Tomorrow!

From PJSTA President Beth Dimino… Yes I know tomorrow is the first day back to school, and it is also the first day in 2014 that we get to show the people in Albany that we still mean business and we will fight till they get rid of the Common Core and high stakes testing!!!  Please be …

Test Refusal… Dimino

Via Port Jefferson Patch… When asked about why teachers didn’t speak up about how awful the reform agenda is earlier. “I sat in that man’s office, Joe Rella, and he knew right away. However no one would have believed me until they actually saw it…now you see how insane the testing is. So now what …