Romney Comes Out Against Common Core
There is that moment in the very early morning, when the sun has not yet risen in the sky but when there is clearly brightening on the horizon that begins to focus on a single point of light. For those opposing Common Core, that moment occurred yesterday in an interview between candidate Romney and Brian Williams at the NBC organized Education Nation Summit in New York. In that exchange, Romney said, “I don’t subscribe to the idea of the federal government trying to push the Common Core onto various states." In referring to the Race To The Top tactic used to foist the standards on the states he said, "To financially reward states based on accepting the federal government’s idea of a curriculum is a mistake.”
So if Governor Romney wins maybe we can expect Washington to cease and desist on national standards (or whatever they want to call them by then.) How do we know this? Because Romney also said that states who have chosen to adopt the Common Core States Standards would be on their own to implement it. “If you have chosen it, congratulations. Work on it and do it within the resources of your own state.” There will be no further
