Posted on 06/20/2014 12:15:15 PM PDT by Sybeck1
MADISON, Mississippi — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant came out in ardent opposition to Common Core education standards on Thursday, a signal of the immense grassroots pressure in the state, as State Sen. Chris McDaniel and incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) battle to win the GOP primary runoff on Tuesday.
“I think Common Core is a failed program, and the United States is beginning to realize that,” Bryant said, according to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. "Governors all across America are realizing states can do it better.”
In late 2013, Bryant issued an executive order that called for state-level, not national, educational standards, but the order did not block the implementation of Common Core. Bryant argued then, according to local news outlets, that Common Core would not mean a federal takeover of educational standards.
This change in position by Bryant—who is campaigning for Cochran’s re-election—comes after neighboring Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal killed Common Core in his state via executive order this week.
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Feeling the heat...
ObamaCore
May it go down in flames.
Jebbie is going to come into MS and give Governor Bryant a good swift kick you know where.
I hope MS has THad Enough, but I am wondering if they have.
School ratings dropped in our area because of Common Core based tests. One year you can blame on kinks in implementation. Two years, you can’t.
Then there is the idiocy of blaming parents for not being able to help kids with the work. My husband has a master’s in engineering and was a math tutor for Calculus 3. Yet we’ve sat there trying to figure out what elementary level homework questions were trying to ask, as well as how to work their NEW style of math. AKA, matrix multiplication instead of long hand and breaking an addition problem into a series of them.
The slap in the face was showing the kids how we did the math. Got the right answer that way. Problem still marked wrong because it wasn’t done the “right” way.
Mississippi Republicans talk a good show, but economically they’re to the left of Trotsky.
If the National Governors Association developed Common Core, aren't they the Governors all across America?
Should Gov Bryant actually say some Governors all across America know better than all Governors across all of America?
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