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Friday, February 28, 2014

Would you like Common Core or Education standards from a conservative legislature..? Also: Where's $ for tech? : blue cheddar

Would you like Common Core or Education standards from a conservative legislature..? Also: Where's $ for tech? : blue cheddar:




Would you like Common Core or Education standards from a conservative legislature..? Also: Where’s $ for tech?



The Senate Education Committee will hold a hearing on the bill March 6, 10 A.M., Room 411 South, in the Wisconsin Capitol Building.
Here’s the headline:
And here is a snippet from the article under that headline:
“Governor Walker has worked with members of the Legislature in both chambers to craft legislation creating a process that would develop Wisconsin-specific model academic standards. The governor believes Wisconsin-specific standards should be created and implemented by Wisconsinites,” Tom Evenson wrote in an email Wednesday.
So Wisconsin will choose either
A) Teaching K-12 students to a standardized test to suit Common Core at great expense in public schools that are already on edge after massive cuts in state funding
(which – oddly enough – makes odd bedfellows of the centrist state Dem Party and the hyper conservative lobbying group WMC which both prefer