Posted on 01/15/2015 3:04:07 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
The conservative support that brought Diane Douglas to the Nov. 6, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction victory was based on her steadfast opposition to the Common Core curriculum.
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In a statement released following her meeting with Sanchez, Douglas hit a low note with this conclusion, “It is important to correct the misunderstanding that the Arizona Department of Education is opposed to ethnic studies. If any child educated in Arizona is not exposed to the suffering, trials and triumphs of all ethnic groups who have contributed to our state’s rich cultural mix, then we are failing to teach accurate history.”
“During my tenure as Superintendent, I have been closely monitoring the status of the Tucson Unified School District’s culturally relevant curricula to ensure that all TUSD students, regardless of their race or ethnic background, have access to a high quality education,” Huppenthal wrote
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Be wary of candidates who focus on Common Core, free markets and tax cuts and want say anything about immigration or ethnic pandering.
Look at Dick Armey, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, Paul Ryan and others.
> Be wary of candidates who focus on Common Core, free markets and tax cuts and want say anything about immigration or ethnic pandering.
Sounds like the “fiscal conservatives” who are social liberals and then turn out to be fiscal liberals as well. Liberals win by running as conservatives. What we need is to find some actual conservatives to run as conservatives.
This woman ran on ridding the state of Common Core. I am wondering if the Republican Party vets it’s candidates at all!! She won so she could boot the Common Core Curriculum. At least Tom Horn booted the ‘Latino Studies’ classes in Tucson. They were actually teaching hatred of the USA.
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