MO GOP Passes Platform Resolution Against Common Core Standards
The Missouri GOP convention was held last weekend in Springfield. In addition to delegates to the national convention, the convention also voted on the state GOP platform. The education portion of the platform was a mixture of the expected GOP issues like; restricting access to porn on public school computers, rejecting school based clinics that dispense contraceptives or abortion counseling, and acknowledging the right of parents to raise their children according to their own convictions, but also some planks that could have come right out of the liberal left's playbook like merit pay and supporting policies to reduce bullying in school. The comments that were submitted by the MEW editors which were widely circulated and supported prior to the convention were not included in the platform presented Saturday. All of this begs the question: Who wrote this portion of the platform and what criteria did they use to decide what went in there?
Any conservative who has been paying attention to education lately knows that anti-bullying policies are one of