Tag: Common Core

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) will appear with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN) Wednesday at an education roundtable discussion sponsored by pro-Common Core Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Tennessee Business Roundtable.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he was “emphatically opposed” to federal Common Core standards after he keynoted an event for Iowa’s influential homeschoolers in which he said that school choice “is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.” “I

Bill Gates’ private foundation has spent over $170 million for the development and implementation of the Common Core standards. The Microsoft founder was asked on ABC and by the American Enterprise Institute to defend the K-12 academic standards this past

The perceived wisdom across the country is that Republicans are the ones looking to block Common Core policies among the states. But in many cases it is Republicans that opponents of the education scheme have to surmount before stopping the

Mothers fighting Common Core in the state of Florida have realized that the state legislature has stalled in its aim to suspend the Sunshine State’s Common Core-derived education policy, so they are taking a new tact: putting pressure on Florida

As the Common Core standards continue to draw intense controversy from parents, teachers, and taxpayers across the country, one of the test consortia creating and operating the multi-state assessments aligned with the standards has abruptly delayed its field tests by

The state of Indiana could be poised to become the first state to fully withdraw from the Common Core standards; but in the battle that continues in the Hoosier state, Americans will see the strong political pressure placed upon parents,

Tennessee State Rep. Joe Carr (R) would like to see the Common Core Learning Standards repealed entirely in his state, but he was happy that on Thursday state lawmakers voted to delay the standards for two years. Carr, who is

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) accused President Barack Obama of wanting to “bully” states into adopting a Common Core system that would federalize education and eventually empower bureaucracies, instead of local governments, as it imposes top-down standards.  Appearing on Breitbart News

Bill Gates, whose private foundation has spent upward of $170 million for the development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards, is asking teachers to help parents understand the standards, hoping this effort will defeat critics of the centralized

Big business interests that want Common Core imposed will unleash an advertisement campaign to blunt the momentum of conservatives and grassroots parents across the country in their efforts to stop the implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards. The top-down

Achieve Inc., the progressive nonprofit education company that helped develop the Common Core standards, says that its third national poll shows the standards and the tests aligned with them have “solid voter support.” The company states its poll was conducted

Though the Oklahoma state House passed a bill Wednesday to repeal Common Core standards by a vote of 78 to 12, the bill was derailed in the Senate. The bill, HB3399, which was introduced by Speaker of the House Jeff

While Common Core may have started as a state-led effort, the Obama Administration has seized on it as a federal goal and is using federal funds to coerce states into implementing Common Core.   The administration has handed out stimulus

Education standards experts continue to be highly critical of the College Board’s announcement last week of significant changes to the SAT that appear to be motivated by both a liberal social justice agenda and a desire to increase market share.

Many South Carolina parents are urging state Senate Education Committee members to approve a bill Wednesday that would repeal the Common Core State Standards without any compromise amendments. State Sen. Larry Grooms (R) sponsored SB 300, which states: The State

Georgia’s Republican Governor, Nathan Deal, seems poised to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by strong-arming the legislature away from pushing a bill to withdraw completely from imposing Common Core education standards on the state’s schools and toward implementing

It is no accident that the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards is now president of the College Board. Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” education into the latest social justice iteration has hit a road block, and David

A panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday criticized the Common Core standards as a top-down, centralized system of government intervention that threatens state and local school autonomy, student privacy, and the continued expansion of more school options