by Katherine Capulong, entertainment editor

Fielding questions from parents and educators alike and telling whimsical anecdotes, DOE Chancellor Carmen Farina led District 25 in a Town Hall.  Sitting with a panel of DOE administrators, Farina led an informative discussion between educational leaders and those under them.

A hot button topic was the implementation of the Common Core standards.

“We’re going to set up workshops. We’re going to explain to all the officials what Common Core is and what it is not. We’re not lowering the standards we’re just going look at them a little differently,” Farina said.

It was asked about during the question and answer session and was a very controversial subject even after the Chancellor left and the cameras turned off.

“The implementation [of the Common Core]  wasn’t done well. We absolutely have to have it; we need it.  But it could have been rolled out better. I think she has to address the different ways standards are met,” PS184 parent coordinator Meg Baker said.

All in all, there was a fruitful exchange which both raised questions to the Chancellor and gave her awareness to issues parents and teachers experience every day.