ALBANY, N.Y. – If you listen very carefully, you may be able to hear the faint sound of cheering and applause coming from New York where parents, taxpayers and teachers were given a five-year reprieve from the full implementation of the nationalized math and English learning standards known as Common Core.

The state Board of Regents – the body charged with overseeing education in the Empire State – announced on Monday it was making nearly 20 different changes in how Common Core will be implemented in New York classrooms. The biggest of those is a five-year delay on the requirement that students must pass a Common Core-aligned exam in order to graduate high school, WGRZ.com reports. That requirement will now kick in for the class of 2022, instead of the class of 2017 as originally planned.

It was also announced that the state’s database containing students’ sensitive and private information will be delayed until officials can “work with legislators to address concerns about data security and third party providers used by the state and (school) districts,” according to a press release.

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These announcements are meant to soothe parents and students who loathed the Common Core-aligned standardized tests that were introduced last spring, and who are worried that the state is going to turn over students’ private information to for-profit K-12 technology companies, like the Bill Gates-funded inBloom.

Teachers will also benefit from several of the Board of Regents’ planned changes.

New York Daily News reports that educators will receive amnesty from the effects of Common Core for two more years. Their job evaluations will not be linked to their students’ performance on the Common Core-aligned PARCC tests until the 2015-16 school year.

Education Commissioner John King Jr. said the PARCC tests will still be given to students during the next two years, but only as a way of “field testing” the new assessments. That means nobody will face consequences for low test scores.

That decision received a strong rebuke from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who described the decision as “yet another in a long series of roadblocks to a much needed evaluation system which the Regents had stalled putting in place for years.”

Cuomo is so angered by this evaluation delay that his office issued a press release calling for a serious reexamination of the Board of Regent’s “capacity and performance.”

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So what does this all mean – and should parents view Monday’s announcement as a victory?

We say “no.”

The Board of Regents’ decision still leaves the flawed, one-size-fits-all learning standards in place. That means New York students will still be taught less math overall, which as some experts have warned, will make it much more difficult for students to enter college prepared to earn a degree in a STEM field (science, engineering, technology and mathematics).

New York students will also be taught less literature and more “informational texts” of dubious quality, worth and objectives.

The board’s decision also leaves the Common Core-aligned PARCC test in place. So once the teacher evaluations are re-linked to students’ test scores, educators will tailor their classroom instruction to meet the demands of these tests. That means New York schools will use a curriculum (lesson plans and instructional materials) that put their students in the best position of doing well on the tests, which are being designed by organizations that receive funding and oversight from the federal government.

In other words, New York families are still in great danger of having bureaucrats in faraway Washington D.C. influence what happens in their classrooms.

The biggest upside from Monday’s announcement is that lawmakers will be allowed to place some serious restrictions on what gets collected – and shared – by the state’s student database. That’s good news, though New York parents must still be vigilant and demand that lawmakers follow through on their promises of bolstering privacy protections.

However, keeping parents, taxpayers and teachers engaged and focused on rolling back Common Core will be much more difficult after the board’s decision, which was obviously designed to placate critics and buy the state more time to fully implement this educational monstrosity.