Tag: Common Core

States that want to opt out of the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) and/or the tests aligned to or based on its standards are being threatened by a toothless tiger that doesn’t want the states to know the tiger has

While much focus has recently been on the issues the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) are creating for public education, private faith-based schools stand to be affected negatively by the standards, as well. Although these private schools are not required

Pro-life leaders have noticed that not a single panel or specific speaker on life issues has been scheduled for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is supposed to be the preeminent annual gathering of conservatives in America. Pro-lifers note

Accompanying the rising speculation that Jeb Bush is weighing a run for president in 2016 comes the question of whether an establishment candidate like Bush can survive being an avid supporter of the Common Core academic standards. In an informal

A wealthy businessman with a strikingly liberal record is out to an early lead in the June 3 Iowa GOP senate primary. Former energy executive Mark Jacobs has expressed support for cap and trade, Common Core, the Ryan-Murray budget compromise,

The New York Assembly is set to pass a bill to postpone implementation of its Common Core rules chiefly because teachers objected to the standards being held against them during teacher evaluations.  Another reason is concerns over student privacy. The

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools states it is outraged at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to limit school choice by “kicking out” four charter schools from their school buildings, leaving at least 700 children without

Immediately following a press conference by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA), during which the state’s largest teachers’ union said “implementation” of the Common Core standards had been “botched,” Connecticut state House Republicans announced they were able to force a public

The executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards criticized recent proposed legislation to repeal the Common Core standards in her state, stating that repeal would be like going back to a “bag phone from an iPhone.” Sally Howell

Common Core developed such a bad name in Arizona that Governor Jan Brewer had to change the name of her program to get people to forget it was connected to the policy. Now a Senate panel in Arizona has voted

Common Core expert Dr. Sandra Stotsky told Connecticut grassroots activists against the Common Core standards that the latest “tactic” of their state legislature was to suppress debate about the standards by refusing to hear any bills whatsoever on Common Core.

In a Politico Magazine op-ed on Thursday, Republican strategist Rich Galen attempts to educate “the right” about why it should “love the Common Core.” From the get-go, Galen misses the boat on who doesn’t love the Common Core standards. Opponents

There is an important fight going on in our country today that is being under-reported by the media. Parents and activists are on the front lines every day fighting to save the quality of public education in this country; they

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; — Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet As Juliet reminds us, changing the name of something doesn’t change its nature. Yet, in an apparent

The nation’s largest teachers union still loves the untested, unproven Common Core standards, and will continue the narrative of Common Core supporters that it’s only the “rollout” or the “implementation” of the initiative that has been “botched.” In a letter

Apparently, taking former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s advice to “rebrand” the Common Core standards without repealing them, Louisiana lawmakers are considering how their state may keep Common Core in its schools while convincing parents and taxpayers that their math and

As Ronald Reagan said in 1964, our republic’s main public policy fight of the era is “[w]hether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a

Real Clear Politics (RCP) has referred to New York State as “Ground Zero” in the national debate about Common Core, and it is an apt title given the vociferous battles among all the key players–the governor, the State Board of