HSLDA’s Michael Farris Has a Conversation with David Coleman
David Coleman, chief architect of the Common Core ELA standards and now President of the College Board has been reaching out to conservatives and Christians to encourage them to support the Common Core. He recently contacted Michael Farris, the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association. Farris, in a email to his members (which my wife and I received yesterday as we’ve been members of
Arizona Tests Costs Jump 50% Under PARCC
Just last week the Arizona Department of Education said they were not concerned with the costs associated with Common Core testing. It’s just money, right? The Daily Caller reports that some legislators feel differently when they saw that the tests costs will jump by 50% after PARCC released their numbers.That spending increase is too steep for Arizona taxpayers, said Rep. Doris Goodale, a Repub
Marco Rubio at Odds with Jeb Bush Over Common Core
The Shark Tank broke the news that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) opposed the Common Core State Standards. An excerpt:And I am very concerned, and quite frankly opposed to any effort to try to create some sort of national curriculum standard and then try to leverage the power of the federal government’s funding to force states to adopt a certain curriculum standard. State and local levels are the best
Why is the Common Core Hearing in Wisconsin Private?
Ryan Ekvall of the Wisconsin Reporter (part of Watchdog.org) reports that two Republican lawmakers will meet in private to decide whether or not they will pursue a legislative study of the Common Core State Standards.That the lawmakers will meet in private is perhaps apropos given the under-the-radar way in which Common Core, the set of national academic standards, is being implemented in Wisconsi
State Senator: Mississippi Can Do Better Than Common Core
I wrote last week about opposition to the Common Core starting to crop up in Mississippi. Mississippi PEP, a conservative blog on Mississippi politics, posted a guest op/ed by State Senator Angela Hill (R-Picayune) who was mentioned last week.Here’s an excerpt:Last week, I and my fellow Senators in the Mississippi Senate Conservative Coalition found evidence of racially discriminatory policy in t