Tea Party Rising in Indiana Against Common Core
Indianapolis Tea Party, 2009
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett are pushing in favor of the Common Core State Standards even though embracing them undermines the conservative principles they say they hold. That isn’t even to mention that several critics (including one common core supporter) have noted that Indiana is swapping out superior standards for mediocre ones all in the name of “being able to speak the same language” in our “society of comparisons.”
Andrea Neal of The Indianapolis Star wrote:
Leading policy experts on standards and curriculum have questioned why Indiana would abandon