Georgia Governor Nathan Deal’s Meaningless Common Core Executive Order
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal issued an executive order to address concerns with the Common Core State Standards. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution sees it as an attempt to stave off a GOP mutiny. Based onpushback I’m seeing and hearing about, it could very well be headed toward a repeal and that has to make Governor Deal nervous as he is on the wrong side of this. You can read his executive order below:
This executive order does relatively nothing. Sixty days of public comment is good, but still having the State Board of Education decide these things is not whether it is public or not. He says they won’t share certain data, but they have a signed memorandum of understanding saying they will.
State Senator William Ligon (R-Brunswick) who authored Georgia’s anti-Common Core bill (that was killed behind the scenes thanks in large part, I am told, by Governor Deal) responded to Governor Deal’s executive
