TWO SIDES FIND COMMON GROUND IN AIRING CONCERNS ABOUT COMMON CORE
Republican, Democrat both urge NJ to go slowly on tougher standards and testing, but Christie administration proceeds with implementation.
- Protesters at event for U.S Senate candidate Steve Lonegan.
New Jersey's decision to implement the federal Common Core State Standards and to field-test the exams that are part of the package has never lacked critics, but it hasn't met with much outright resistance.
Until now.
While still very much a minority voice, a collection of strange bedfellows is increasingly speaking up against New Jersey’s adoption of the new, more rigorous standards and testing.
Yesterday, it was Steve Lonegan, the conservative Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, who held a press conference in front of the state Department of Education to decry the federal standards as another power grab by Washington.
While outnumbered by journalists, Lonegan was nonetheless joined by a half-dozen other conservative and Tea Party activists.
“No one-size-fits-all model will serve these children, nor will it serve our nation,”