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Friday, April 10th, 2015 Today we have a lot to get into. We will get our weekend movie reviews from Willie Waffle. We also discuss education reform and state tests with both Carl Korn from NYSUT and Superintendent Richard Hughes who is the CVA Superintendent. We will also get a veteran update with Sheriff Maciol and we talk to Mayor Leonard of Ilion.

_____________________________________________________________________________ The New York State United Teachers union is taking the 'Opt Out' campaign to a new level by funding a robo-call enticing parents and teachers to opt out of  New York State testing next week because of the connection to teacher evaluations...

Concern over Governor Andrew Cuomo's Education Evaluation Plan brought dozens of teachers, parents and school board members out in the cold to protest in front of a Board of Education meeting at the Oneida Herkimer Madison BOCES Thursday night.