OK should just tell the fed-gov to stuff it. It’s the Obama way.
All the states should tell the Feds to shove off
Indiana ditched Commonist Core a few months ago, but just today it was announced we got a one year extension on the No Child Left Behind waiver.
The feds are certainly not being consistent.
Proficiency in reading and math? Why, the very idea of it is outrageous to think children should be able to read and do their sums.
I guess the feds and the edumacation wonks have figured out how to screw that up as well.
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called No Child Left Behind,
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called Goals 2000,
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by America 2000,
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nations public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
I dunno. It is voluntary, but it’s also written into the standards that if you don’t accept them, you don’t get waived from NCLB.
Since I don’t believe there should be federal OR state interference in education, I would refuse to comply to Common Core, refuse to comply with NCLB, and refuse ALL federal funds for education. Tell the counties to deal with it or close down the public schools. Fixes the problem right quick.