Oklahoma Goes Where No State Legislature Has Gone Before
What just happened in the Oklahoma legislature is stunning and the reverberations will spread to other states.
It’s astounding when concerned citizens have to celebrate a state legislature reclaiming control of what is rightfully theirs to control: the educational development and delivery of their standards. State legislatures should NEVER have had to spend time in session undoing what is illegal. Governors overstepped their authority to sign their states on to the concept of national standards (they weren’t even written) and give away their state’s right to set educational standards and assessments to private companies. It is astounding that a state legislature has to pass legislation to thwart the plans of private organizations to take over the control of public education and bypasses voters and legislators.
Kudos to the Oklahoma House and Senate becoming the first legislature to draw the line in the sand for the education reformers via the repeal of Common Core standards. It told them it was not interested in their schemes for power and unfunded mandates. It now lies on the desk of Governor Mary Fallin. Below is the press release from Restore Oklahoma Public Education detailing the bill that repudiates the Common Core State Standards Initiative. And special thanks to the tireless Oklahoma Goes Where No State Legislature Has Gone Before | Missouri Education Watchdog: