Those State-level Common Core “Reviews”: Useful for Fashioning “Public Support”
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Louisiana and elsewhere are now “under review.”
This seems that the new in-thing to do in CCSS states. According to Politico’sMorning Education on July 31, 2015, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, New Jersey, and Kentucky are all conducting (or preparing to conduct) a CCSS “review.”
Politico notes that halfway through the CCSS review in Mississippi, “more than 90 percent of commenters have said they approve of the standards.”
Politico did not mention that the CCSS-supporting Mississippi state superintendent, Carey Wright, dropped this fear-bomb on the Mississippi public in May 2015:
Mississippi totally ditching Common Core standards this late in the game “would set us back monumentally,” Wright said, and bring the very federal intervention in state education that Common Core opponents fear. Wright said the state runs the risk of losing its federal No Child Left Behind waiver if it doesn’t have approved standards, and this would bring dire sanctions including “significant federal involvement.” She said at least 74 schools in 51 districts would face reorganization, state takeover or other actions immediately. Throwing out Common Core standards, she said, “would place the state’s education system in turmoil.”
Throw out CCSS in Mississippi, and bogeyman US secretary of education Arne Duncan will take over Mississippi schools as a condition of waivers associated with defunct No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
Gotta keep CCSS or the feds will come after us.
Nice.
Skip to July 2015, when both House and Senate passed versions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to put to rest NCLB– and its federal-strong-arming “waivers”– with both House and Senate versions explicitly declaring federal mandating of CCSS as prohibited. In September 2015, House and Senate will come together in a conference committee to craft one ESEA reauth out of the two Those State-level Common Core “Reviews”: Useful for Fashioning “Public Support” | deutsch29:
