Common Core Model Resolution for County Political Party Platforms
We encourage activists to also make opposition to the Common Core part of your county political party platform. To that end we would like to provide a model resolution that you can use as a template. The template can be used for any political party as we believe opposition to the Common Core can and should be a bipartisan position.
WHEREAS, in 2010 officials in the Executive Branch committed our state to participation in the Common Core State Standards Initiative through the federal Race to the Top grant application; and
WHEREAS, this participation required our state to adopt the Common Core standards in K-12 English language arts and mathematics, and to commit to implementing the national [SMARTER Balanced (SBAC)/Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)] assessments, all without legislative oversight and without public input; and
WHEREAS, adoption of Common Core obliterates [state’s] constitutional autonomy over education in English