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Tony Bennett’s Defeat’s Impact on the Common Core

by Shane Vander Hart

The education consulting group Whiteboard Advisors recently conducted surveys of 50-75 anonymous political and policy “insiders” before and after the election asking them to weigh in on a variety of issues.  One of the items that caught my eye they asked “How will Tony Bennett’s (the incumbent Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction) defeat impact the Common Core?”  They asked the question of Indiana and then what national impact it might have.

Within Indiana:

• “Common Core in Indiana is safe once Ritz realizes that NEA supports the standards and they gave
  her the money to be elected.”
• “I think the Common Core will survive if teachers feel they are included in the implementation discussions.”
• “I don’t know. Generally, the Common Core has a long way to go.”
• “The Common Core has always been a Trojan horse to get out of accountability which they will do in other