Fifty-five percent of New York students met the EnglishLanguageArts proficiency standards in 2012 by scoring at least a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4, and 65 percent scored at least a 3 on the math tests.
Forty-five of the fifty states in the US are members of the CCSS initiative and a majority of states have adopted the standards for mathematics and Englishlanguagearts that were released in 2010.