[grania]

Common Core is hated in OH. The only reason it's tolerated is that there's such easy access to public homeschooling as a safety valve. FWIW, it used to be Kucinich who fought for US workers and keeping manufacturing jobs. And his district wasn't just gerrymandered; it was shattered into tiny pieces that extend from Toledo to Akron to far east side of Cleveland.

I live in what used to be Kucinich territory. The only signs on lawns are for Trump.

[setha]

The baton for Ohio’s opposition to most trade matters has passed from Kucinich to Sherrod Brown. Unfortunately, he also comes with a LOT of other political baggage.

That aside, one can be hopeful that the switch to Trump at least signals a break in Democrat strangleholds over such issues.

[USNBandit]

Common Core is a terrible thing, but the opposition of Common Core needs to include a substitute. The problem with Common Core isn’t the concept, but what the core is made up of. The solutions for education must be made on a local level in the face of state testing requirements that drive elementary education in the wrong direction.