Two New York Assembly members who represent parts of St. Lawrence County are concerned that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest effort at retooling Common Core programs is likely to come up short.

Ken Blankenbush, R-Black River, representing southwestern St. Lawrence County, and Marc Butler, R-Newport, representing east- and south-central parts of the county, agree that the governor is missing a chance for real reform by appointing some of the same members to the new panel that were on the last two education task forces.

“The governor is delusional if he thinks he is going to get any groundbreaking overhaul of Common Core from his newly-formed education task force, which is essentially the same panel that developed our state’s Common Core standards in the first place,” said Blankenbush. “The task force should include more voices of educators and other stakeholders. If the governor wants a ‘total reboot’ of education, he should start fresh with fresh minds and ideas.”

“I absolutely agree with reviewing our educational standards, especially in relation to Common Core, however, I am disappointed that the governor opted to appoint many of the same individuals who developed our state’s original Common Core standards to his ‘new’ education task force,” Butler said. “To get the total reboot he’s promising New Yorkers, he should really start with a new team of experts and include more teachers and stakeholders familiar with Common Core’s failings.”

Gov. Cuomo named the members of his new Common Core task force on Monday, calling for a “total reboot” to “overhaul the Common Core system.”

Among the familiar names on the 15-member panel asked to revise the way the state will meet the Common Core requirements is Richard Parsons, an adviser at Providence Equity Partners and former chairman of Citigroup who led Cuomo’s 2012 education reform commission in 2012.

Several other members of the new group were on recent previous education panels, according to capitalnewyork.com.