Update on Common Core Status in the States: Part One
With many states beginning their legislative sessions, issues surrounding the fate of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are front and center in statehouses across the country.
Below is the first installment of updates on the issue of CCSS. Given the volume of information, I will likely have to break the information into three posts.
For this post, I include CCSS information on twelve states: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
The Kansas and South Carolina updates actually involve anti-CCSS proposed legislation in the US Senate.
Stephanie Bell, a 18-years Board member in her sixth term, reached out to Breitbart News and provided in-depth information the local media left out in their reports.
“This was simple house keeping,” Bell told Breitbart News. “The content did not change.”
Bell was one who voted against the changes because it did not go far enough. She told Bice that despite the changes, Alabama is still a Common Core state. The states using Common Core standards are allowed to add up to 15% of their own standards, but they still use Common Core aligned assessments and curriculum. Bice tried to