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?

by blue cheddar • February 28, 2014

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:

Mary Burke: Common Core bill would politicize education

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