Georgia Common Core Review Bill Clears Senate Committee Hurdle
The Georgia Senate Education and Youth Committee unanimously passed SB 167 a bill that would repeal the Common Core State Standards in the state. The bill introduced by State Senator William Ligon, Jr. (R-Brunswick) will establish the process for reviewing the standards, allows local districts to go back to the previous, superior GA standards in the interim, and establishes strong protections for
NEA’s Van Roekel Loses Faith in Common Core
National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel in a letter published yesterday that the Common Core implementation has been completely botched. He statements, speaking on behalf of his union (but under the guise of “educators”), in support of the Common Core in this letter reads more like a faith statement than a fact-based case for the Common Core.So when 45 states adopted the Common
Missouri Lawmaker Adds Tinfoil Hat Amendment to Insult Common Core Opponents
Let’s file this in the “how stupid can you be” category. The Kansas City Star reported that the Missouri House Education Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to the 2015 education budget. It added $8 to be spent on tin foil. The sponsor of the amendment is State Representative Mike Lair (R-Chillicothe) who is the chair of that committee. The language of the amendment said that the money was to be used for “two rolls of high density aluminum to create headgear designed to deflect drone and/or black helicopter mind reading and control technology.”
The Star reported that “some lawmakers aren’t too pleased by what they consider to be paranoia about new Common Core standards for public schools.”
Anne Gassel at Missouri Education Watchdog points out that if you have to resort to tactics like this then your cupboard is bare when it comes to having facts and data on your side.
The opponents of Common Core have offered reviews by content experts including two national experts, selected by the Common Core State Standards Initiative themselves for the validation committee, who refused to sign off on the standards because they were grossly