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Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “? | Missouri Education Watchdog

The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “? | Missouri Education Watchdog:



The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “?

you are not invited
Note to The Fordham Institute:  No offense, but you aren’t residents of our state.  Save your money, stay out of our states and our educational decisions.

The Fordham Institute won’t stay out of Missouri and stop trying to tell us how to run our state and educational programs.  Fordham won’t stop meddling in other states either.  From Restore Oklahoma Public Education (ROPE) on how Michael Brickman from Fordham appeared like magic in Oklahoma to talk to Governor Mary Fallin regarding the anti-Common Core bill on her desk:

Monday I was ecstatic to find that, while I was leaving for Ohio to participate in an anti-Common Core rally, Michael Brickman from Fordham Foundation (located in Ohio) was coming to Oklahoma to give Governor Fallin 6 reasons why she should not sign HB3399 – the repeal and replacement of the Common Core State Standards in Oklahoma.



ROPE provides a brilliant response to Mr. Brickman’s arguments on why Oklahoma should stay the course with Common Core standards.  He apparently feels so strongly for Oklahoma children that he had to take a plane from Washington DC and fly all the way to Oklahoma to tell Governor Fallin how destroyed he would be if the poor children of Oklahoma wouldn’t be able to partake of The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “? | Missouri Education Watchdog: