JUST CALL THEM "GIPPER GOALS" AND THE RIGHT WILL LINE BACK UP:

Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said Tuesday that the state is "toying with" a possible name change for a revamped Common Core, the set of more-stringent education standards that has sparked often-contentious debate in school districts across New York. [...]

"There is so much politicization about those words - 'Common Core,'" Tisch said. "So we can call them the Empire State Standards, or New York's Higher Standards."

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