Sunday, August 14, 2011

Common Core Standards, ALEC, Jeb Bush and the "Frozen People" (American Taxpayers and Citizens)

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Standards, ALEC, Jeb Bush and the "Frozen People" (American Taxpayers and Citizens)

Common Core Standards, ALEC, Jeb Bush and the "Frozen People" (American Taxpayers and Citizens)




At the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in New Orleans this past week, Jeb Bush's "progressive conservative" organization squashed effective discussion between legislators who wanted to discuss slowing down/stopping implementation of common core standards. Neal McCluskey writes:

In this space, we’ve been telling you about a few efforts in state legislatures to complicate adoption or implementation of common standards … A move that had the potential to involve