Duncan's Former Chief of State Says States "Forced" to Take on Common Core
Must be the month for "I knew it" moments (the first being the Washington State charter school law.)
Common Core may be toast now. Except that states and districts, like ours, have invested millions on following and using it. And invested millions in testing those standards.
Guinea pigs - your children were nothing but guinea pigs to these people. Shame on them.
From Breitbart:
In a remarkable admission, the former director of the Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program and chief of staff to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the federal government “forced” full support for adoption of the Common Core standards from each state by requiring its governor, chief state school officer, and head of the state board of education to sign off on the grant application.
Weiss, who led RttT from its start, explains the federal government took advantage of the fact that states were strapped for cash due to the recession.
“[S]o the large pot of funding that we had to offer was a significant inducement for states to compete,” she writes, adding the surprise number of 46 states willing to sign onto the Common Core standards initiative was due Seattle Schools Community Forum: Duncan's Former Chief of State Says States "Forced" to Take on Common Core: