Repeating here from WAPO:
The real issues are in the details:
“Despite all the concern, though, it seems unlikely that Trump can actually do anything to eliminate Common Core. Adoption and continued use of the standards is entirely controlled by state and local governments; while the Obama administration used stimulus funds to encourage Common Core’s adoption, those funds have been exhausted and nothing currently compels states to remain on Common Core. They all have the power to leave, and a few, such as Oklahoma, already have. Furthermore, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the current law governing education, prohibits the federal government from coercing states regarding the standards they use.”
“In order to root out Common Core, then, Trump would have to replace or ignore ESSA and intervene at the state level to get rid of Common Core. That would hardly comport with Trump’s rhetoric about having education controlled at the local level.”
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If this report is accurate, Common Core is no longer funded or assisted by the federal government. It’s now in the hands of the 40 states that use it. In other words, Common Core is now an issue for each individual state to decide.
So then the complaint here would be moot.
Perhaps De Vos was once a promoter for Common Core but as it looks now, she can no longer promote it. All President Trump has to do is not sign onto any budget item for Common Core.
De Vos’ last involvement in education was over choices that made education unions mad. That’s a good thing. Perhaps there might be a way for her to promote school choice. If she’s successful with that, she could then work on closing the Department down.
Trump has also made promises to the inner cities. They are in bad need of newer and safer facilities. That will take money. So the Education Dept will likely still have a role to play as he makes good on that campaign promise.
Conservatives should focus on getting rid of Common Core at the state level while ensuring the federal level earmarks no funds of any kind for Common Core. Conservatives should advocate sunsetting the Education Dept after it has served as a conduit to fund newer and safer school facilities in the inner cities.
Trump screwed the pooch on this one.
More socialist brainwashing ahead. Get your friends with kids aware of the P-20 control plan, digital learning, tracking, testing and social emotional vs. fact-based learning-get them educated at home.
We cannot sustain freedom or the Trump anti-PC battle in the future if he signs up for this #$*%!!
Bad day for right-wingers. His transition team on ed sucked completely.
It appears that her brother founded Blackwater USA. I have heard that name somewhere before.
“Conservatives should focus on getting rid of Common Core at the state level while ensuring the federal level earmarks no funds of any kind for Common Core.”
Seems like this should not be a problem in may states as the Republicans control many governorships and state houses. Trump is probably already on board at the federal level.
Not sure it's an individual state issue at this point. Our local school district dropped it like a hot potato once the new education law went into effect.
DeVos says she is not for common core, although some organizations she is involved with is. She says that it turned a couple of good ideas into a bureaucratic mess.