Missouri Education Watchdog: Are Missouri Legislators Paying Attention to What SC Legislators Figured Out?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Are Missouri Legislators Paying Attention to What SC Legislators Figured Out?:

Are Missouri Legislators Paying Attention to What SC Legislators Figured Out?

by stlgretchen

Arne Duncan is a bit testy with South Carolina's push back against the nationalized standards Duncan contends really aren't national. He called the SC Legislature attempting to rescind common core standards “a conspiracy theory in search of a conspiracy.”

Peter Wood details the history of the takeover of education from the Federal level since 1965 when ESEA was created and federal money began funding state and local budgets. When funding is expected from the Federal government, states and local districts became subject to federal mandates. If states and districts