Oklahoma House Passes Common Core Repeal
March 12, 2014 was a BUSY day in the Oklahoma Capitol.
HB3399 – a bill to repeal Common Core standards by Speaker of the House Jeff Hickman PASSED OUT OF THE HOUSE last night; 78 AYE to 12 NAY. This bill repeals Common Core from law and allows 2 years in which to develop standards and tests. It does not specify standards or testing for the interim.
This is now the only vehicle in the Oklahoma legislature with the possibility to stop Common Core State Standards and associated testing.
Late Monday evening (2/10), an amendment to SB1764, was filed by two brave Oklahoma Senators, Josh Brecheen and Anthony Sykes via gutting a bill that had already passed out of the Senate Education Committee and inserting new language to stop Common Core. Before the bill could be heard on the Senate floor, however, another amendment was added late on the evening of the 11th. This amendment - eerily similar to that of Indiana – effectively neutered the intent and purpose of that filed on 3/10 by providing 6 months for the State Department of Education to create new college and career ready standards – a veritable impossibility.
As Chamber of Commerce and Stand For Children (ExpectMore.org) lobbyists moved into
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