Zesty Louisiana Education Politics
My attempt at completing my first grader’s Common Core math homework – and a little historical CCSS context
Posted on November 15, 2013
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I know that many people are thinking the commotion over Common Core, CCSS, is much ado about nothing. I’ve heard some folks liken this change to the Affordable Care Act (AKA) Obamacare. There are some similarities to how these things were implemented and rolled out nationwide, but while the ACA was voted on by national elected officials, held to be constitutional in a Supreme Court ruling, and a referendum item of the last national general election and Presidential contest. Common Core has undergone no such tests or review process. When Obamacare was passed, thousands of pages of legislation were created and reviewed by corporate stakeholders, media organizations, political groups, and private citizens, and one of the common complaints was Obamacare contained too much info to review in a short amount of time, CCSS contained no documentation when many states, including Louisiana signed up to promote and endorse it after receiving millions in grants from the Gates foundation to do so. Louisiana agreed to implement Common Core in its first Race to the Top application submitted January 19 of 2010 during the depths of the recession to pursue some of the 5 billion dollars in grants the US Department of
