There was a petition started by the Future Educators of New Jersey to waive cut scores for the edTPA and I believe New York should fight for this too!

As student teachers' final semester of college comes to an end, we are concerned about the effect COVID-19 will have on our edTPA assessments. In this time of distress, student teachers should be focusing on their students and themselves. The State of New York has already made it clear despite much of our protest that they will not waive the edTPA.

Please assist us in showing the State of New York how waiving the "cut score" is the reasonable alternative. This is an unprecedented event that student teachers have no control over. It's been hard enough for student teachers to transition to online teaching without adding the edTPA to it. Student teachers, along with their cooperating teachers, are trying their best to navigate this new platform of instruction. The edTPA is going to be an unfair assessment of future educators who have worked so hard on getting their licensure by their time of graduation.

Please show your support for future educators.

- Hopeful Future Educators of New York