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States Fighting Back | Truth in American Education:

States Fighting Back

by Shane Vander Hart

James Wilson has updated our map.

Below is the list of bills and stories outlining the battle currently underway.
Alabama

• SB 190
• Alabama Exists National Common Core Tests

Colorado

• Common Core’s Race to the Middle in Colorado Dec. 6, 2012

Florida

• HB 377 SB 524
• Should Florida postpone implementation of the Common Core?
• Florida Lawmakers Might Delay New Education Standards, Testing for some Grades.
• Lawmakers, commissioner sow seeds to delay Common Core in Florida
• Florida Contemplates ‘Backup’ Tests for Common Core

Georgia

• SB 167

Idaho

• Common core ed standards face hearing in House committee

Indiana

• Senate Bill No. 193

Kansas

• HB 2289

Michigan

• HB 4276

Missouri

• HB 616
• SB 210

Oklahoma

• HB 1907

South Carolina

• SC Gov Nikki Haley Backs Bill to Block Common Core Standards 2012
• S. 604

South Dakota

• House Bill 1204

Utah

• Utah drops out of consortium developing Common Core tests
• Legislature questions common core standards 2012

**Minnesota appears on the map as having rejected the CCSS. MN did not adopt the CCSS for Mathematics.
Check here for links to groups actively working to stop the Common Core State Standards implementation and related issues.