Common Core State Standards Not Nevada’s Creation
By Karen Briske & Christina Leventis
State-led, state-led, no really it was state-led! How many times have “We the People” been told the Common Core State Standards c. 2010 was a state-led process? How many times have “We the People” been told the adoption of the standards were voluntary (which, of course, begs the question why would the federal government need to tell sovereign states they have the right to adopt something they created – but we digress)?
For the past year-and-a-half we, along with many other parents and concerned citizens, have been pondering this state-led initiative suddenly and coincidentally under-taken, voluntarily, by 45 states all at the same time. Why has the federal government and state leaders waved this blood red flag at us? We heard you the first time and we heard you the one thousandth time. We hear you still. We hear you, but we don’t believe you.
Without recreating the full narrative on the development of the standards by the five or six businessmen, under Achieve, commissioned by the NGA and CCSSO (who are heavily funded by the federal government and who currently hold the copyright to CCSS), we are simply going to lay out the chronological order of how our great state of Nevada came to be saddled with the Common Core State Standards c. 2010 that our teachers and parents played no role in:
- May 20, 2009, Dr. Keith Rheault, Superintendent of Public Instruction, signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the NGA and CCSSO, “On behalf of Governor Jim Gibbons and the Nevada Department of Education…” (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_qGS09FFbRuWDhkaV9wbHRkaU0/edit?pli=1)
Dr. Rheault did not have Legislative approval to sign for Nevada. It is doubtful many, if any at all, members of Nevada’s Legislature were even aware of what was at work behind the scenes, in secret, with Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, and the individual states at the time of this signing. (See Laurie H. Rogers Education News story on July 14, 2009: (http://www.educationnews.org/articles/common-core-standards-secretive-expensive-and-wrong.html
- June 25, 2009, Dr. Keith Rheault, introduced the fact that the MOA had been executed on
Hoosier Moms Discuss Common Core on Patriot Voices Radio
Erin Tuttle and Heather Crossin of Hoosiers Against Common Core were guests on Patriot Voices Radio yesterday to discuss the Common Core State Standards. You can listen in below:Check Out Politics Conservative Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with Patriot Voices Radio on BlogTalkRadio The post Hoosier Moms Discuss Common Core on Patriot Voices Radio appeared first on Truth in American Education.