Prosecutor Ken Thompson says the cop who killed a man in a NYCHA stairwell shouldn’t do a day behind bars because he didn’t intend to hurt anyone. More than 200 people convicted of unintentional killings are serving time in New York.
Hoping to head off parent opt-outs, education officials are hyping reforms like shorter tests and the removal of time limits. But those changes could create new problems without addressing the underlying flaws in the testing regime.