New York State's present education issues should serve as a cautionary tale for school leaders who are instituting any type of change. The issues began a few years ago when the state adopted the Common Core State Standards, made teacher and administrator evaluation a law, and tied high stakes testing to the CCSS before students and teachers ever had the proper resources and professional development.

Implementing the Common Core or instituting teacher and administrator evaluation in one year would have been an enormous job for schools but doing all three in the same year that schools were experiencing major budget cuts created a perfect storm for a bad situation. 

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