Weingarten: Common Core Rollout Worse Than Obamacare Rollout
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten criticized the implementation of the Common Core State Standards on Monday as reported by Capital New York:
“You think the Obamacare implementation is bad? The implementation of the Common Core is far worse,” said Weingarten, the former head of the United Federation of Teachers in New York, at the National Education Writers Association conference at George Washington University.
Granted Weingarten supports the Common Core in general, but to say its rollout is worse than Obamacare gives you a picture of what a disaster it has been.
Weingarten, who has led calls for temporary moratoriums on attaching high stakes to Common Core-aligned exams, said New York’s rollout of the standards left little time for schools to develop local curricula, leading superintendents to rely upon state-provided lesson
