Since the Dems are owned by teachers’ unions, I can only believe that this whole scam was set up to show an improvement over successive years in kids’ performance. Since much of the tax revolt is tied to the public sector’s compensation, and anyone with eyes can watch each generation of students emerge with progressively worse educations, this will be something to convince people they are paying for a quality education system.
Commie Core is the Law of the Land for those states who want some of the Education dollars they send to DC to come back to them. You had to sign on to get your own money back! Which states are not using Commie Core? I think all the states should band together and refuse to send ANY education dollars to DC. That way they would again control the education in their own state. Without intrusion from DC.
I just went over to the Common Core website (http://www.corestandards.org/) and what I see there looks pretty reasonable to me. If anything, the standards are somewhat low (the math, for instance, lags behind what I saw in French high school when I was an exchange student there).
Is the objection to the way Common Core is implemented? Is there a problem with poorly designed tests?
...not that I have anything insightful to add to the discussion here, but it would appear that our Secretary of
Education looks like a demented rodent...