Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Oklahoma Governor & Speaker of the House Stonewall Common Core Bill | Truth in American Education

Oklahoma Governor & Speaker of the House Stonewall Common Core Bill | Truth in American Education:


Oklahoma Governor & Speaker of the House Stonewall Common Core Bill

oklahoma state capitolFrom Jenni White of Restoring Oklahoma Public Education (ROPE) via email:
So here’s the deal, the governor and the superintendent had a meeting with legislators this morning and apparently told them not to pass anything against her education “reforms” including the common core!
Our author of the task force bill, hb1907, Gus Blackwell, was told by speaker T.W. Shannon this morning, “we don’t need to re-hash this now” to which Gus said, “we never hashed it in the first place”, but it didn’t matter…Shannon is saying he won’t release the bill to the calendar committee for even a vote to go to the floor!!!
We’re trying to rally the troops right now, but I’m not sure what we can do. Our state is redder than