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New schools chief calls for tougher teacher standards

BUFFALO - Wasting no time, the state's new education commissioner used his introductory news conference Monday to call for upgrading test standards employed in certifying 25,000 schoolteachers annually.

David Milton Steiner, 51, now education dean at Manhattan's Hunter College and an expert on teacher training, was named commissioner Monday morning by unanimous vote of the state's Board of...

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