Monroe County, N.Y. - Students across New York State began taking the Common Core tests Tuesday. The state's English Language Arts (ELA) and Math assessments for students in third through eighth ...

One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments.

About 25 percent of last year’s third- through eighth-grade English and math exams are available to the public on the Education Department’s EngageNY website.

Test scores for the first year of testing under the new standards were dismal across the state. Only 31 percent of third through eighth grade students passed the math and English language arts exams .

Test scores from local districts on grades 3 through 8 Common Core math tests stayed above the state average for the 2015-16 school year in local districts, but the region did not do quite as well ...