Parents & Educators Executive Order Against Common Core
A group of Florida parents who are supported by parents and educators nationwide released an executive order demanding an end to the Common Core State Standards and student data mining that is taking place in every state. They also released a longer document entitled “Welcome to the new Common Core fuzzy math: CC = Conditions + Coercion + Conflict of Interest.”
Some excerpts:
We also changed the way we do business at the Department of Education. Instead of issuing top-down edicts, we provided incentives for and supports for states districts, schools and local communities to undertake reform themselves, including offering more flexibility to states in the form of waivers from No Child Left Behind … The Obama Record in Education, Secretary Duncan’s Remarks to the Mom Congress, April 30, 2012……“Why deal with pesky Congress when you get to make all the rules?” said Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute. The department doesn’t have the authority to declare waivers high-risk, he said, and one of the states should
Impending Disaster in American Education: Exxon Mobil Ad Supports a Failed Promise
Below is a press release that was sent out by American Principles Project.Washington, DC – Today, the American Principles Project responded to a new ad aired for the National Education Association (NEA) and funded by Exxon Mobil. “It is ironic that Exxon is supporting the Common Core even though those standards undermine the goals of preparing more children for STEM (science, technology, engineeri