Can someone please fill a bucket with cold water and throw it on the Cobb County school board?
During a time of furloughs and larger classes, Cobb is considering squandering $2 million to redesign middle and middle and high school math books to eliminate all icons that reference the "Common Core Georgia Performance Standards."
The AJC reports that it's one of three proposals by administrators to get the board past a political stalemate.
Let me say it again: At a time when school districts are scouring under sofa cushions to find pennies to pay their bills, the Cobb Board of Education is weighing spending $2 million for a symbolic rejection of the Common Core State Standards.
I use the word “symbolic” because the math standards in Common Core are the same ones adopted by Georgia in its own performance standards. In objective reviews, including one I
