Common Core as a brand name. Who is making money off the new standards?
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A lot of you have asked, “Who benefits financially from the new Common Core State Standards?”
The AJC examines that question in the Sunday AJC, and finds that it is not easy to separate out school system spending on Common Core.
The story by AJC education reporter Wayne Washington is subscriber only on MyAJC.com, but here is a snippet. (Check out the MyAJC site today as it has a lot of good education stuff, including a piece on school security in the wake of the McNair drama in DeKalb.)
Millions are being made on Common Core, but it’s not likely parents can figure who’s making that money, or how much a particular school system is spending specifically because of the new standards, since instructional material has always cost plenty and a lot of the “new” stuff isn’t necessarily new.There is a long list of companies selling what school districts in Georgia and the rest of the country are buying. Education officials in Georgia say most of the money spent on Common Core would have been spent anyway. Teachers participated in professional