Tag: Common Core

A positive byproduct of having the Common Core Standards in the political spotlight is that Americans are now learning of the enormous role the federal government has had in education for nearly 50 years, from President Lyndon Johnson’s Elementary and

As Breitbart TV reported Friday, conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said he does not believe Jeb Bush will be the GOP presidential nominee in 2016 because of “the Common Core problem” and his push for amnesty for illegal immigrants. Appearing on Laura Ingraham’s

Where a Republican stands on the Common Core standards is now a “litmus test for gauging candidates’ conservative bona fides,” says Fox News.com, as more political experts contend that the controversial standards are helping to define elections, from local school

Just one day after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) moved to exit his state from the controversial Common Core standards and their aligned PARCC assessments, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) announced Thursday that the nationalized standards are in jeopardy in

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)

While more states are attempting to extricate themselves from the controversial Common Core standards, a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has suspiciously found that 59 percent of Americans “strongly” or “somewhat strongly” support “adoption and implementation” of the nationalized standards,

Business Insider reports that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has promised that his state will abandon the nationalized Common Core standards, even though some state lawmakers and education officials are challenging his decision. Jindal issued a series of executive orders

The Huffington Post reports that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) had announced a “huge Common Core shift” by stating that he would no longer be “bullied by the federal government.” On Wednesday Jindal issued a series of executive orders calling

In a press conference on Wednesday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) announced actions to remove his state from the Common Core standards and the aligned Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments. Much of Jindal’s focus

As Americans become educated about the controversial Common Core standards, more states are finding ways to make U-turns to get their students, parents, and teachers out of the nationalized system of standards. Once thought to be a champion for education

On Tuesday U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) who recently vetoed a controversial bill that would have bound his state further to the Common Core standards and the aligned PARCC testing. On CBS News This

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, is doubling down on Common Core.   On Monday, Bush’s nonprofit Foundation for Excellence in Education declared that “pressing pause” on Common Core “means stopping forward momentum,” and he pushed

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal vetoed Friday a controversial bill that many critics of the Common Core standards said would bind the state further both to the nationalized standards and the PARCC tests aligned to them. According to The Advocate, the

As expected, the Common Core standards have become a significant electoral issue – one that is separating Washington establishment politicians from grassroots conservative candidates. While Dave Brat’s (R-VA) stunning victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was largely focused

Melinda Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced that her international family planning foundation will no longer fund abortion because she believes abortion and family planning have become “conflated.” Gates, wife of the Microsoft founder and a

Just one day after calls for congressional investigations into the ties between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Obama administration that led to states adopting the Common Core standards, the Gates Foundation has announced that it is urging

The most controversial current issue in education today is clearly Common Core. It’s being more hotly debated than bullying, zero tolerance, sex ed, abortion, or even school lunches. Common Core is the title of a new set of standards that

A group of Milwaukee-area Catholic school parents are outraged over Archbishop Jerome Listecki’s decision to implement the controversial Common Core standards in its 110 parochial schools. As FoxNews.com reports, though some parents have pulled their children out of the archdiocese’s