Several months after Arizona voters elected a state schools superintendent who ran on an anti-Common Core platform, a state House education committee has approved a measure to ditch the Common Core standards and block the state Board of Education’s ability to adopt new standards.
While traditionally perceived as GOP-aligned, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been making it increasingly clear that it is no friend of the more populist wings of either major U.S. political party for some time and is now looking to begin playing in Democrat primaries, much as it has in Republican primaries in the past.
After failing to get its desired comprehensive amnesty legislation last Congress, the Chamber of Congress wants Republicans to act on an immigration bill immediately in the next Congress. And it may try to oust GOP lawmakers who try to get