Mike Huckabee Is Wrong on Common Core
Governor Mike Huckabee recently came out in support of the Common Core State Standards, but based on past comments this shouldn’t be a surprise.
Tag: Race to the Top
Grassley Launches Effort to Prohibit Common Core Funding
Senator Chuck Grassley is asking his colleagues to sign onto a letter that requests future federal funds for the Common Core and its assessments be cut off.
Sarah Palin Was a Prophet About Obama’s Education Takeover
By Maggie Gallagher Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama’s signature education initiative, Race to the Top which pushed the Common Core standards, Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum. On May 31, 2009, then-Gov. Palin announced Alaska would adopt a “watch and wait” attitude: “If this [...]
Mike Fair: We Sold Our Education Birthright
State Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville) in an op/ed for the Greenville News yesterday wrote: The Legislature never had a chance to review Common Core because the feds timed their deadlines for adopting them to fall when the Legislature wasn’t in session. So, to qualify for a shot at Race to the Top money in 2010, [...]
Common Core State Standards Estimated Cost is $16 Billion for States
Cost far exceeds sums doled out in federal grants used to persuade states to adopt BOSTON/WASHINGTON, D.C./SAN FRANCISCO – Aligning state and local educational systems to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and math will cost the 45 states plus the District of Columbia that have adopted them nearly $16 billion over [...]
Is The U.S. Dept. of Education Violating Federal Law by Directing Standards, Tests & Curricula?
BOSTON, MA —Despite three federal laws that prohibit federal departments or agencies from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new report written by a former general [...]
SC General Assembly Needs to Magnify the Constitutional Line Between the Feds and the State
By Ethan Ware Take your pick on when it started, but federal control continues to bleed into state and local affairs in direct contradiction with the Constitution. Some examples are obvious and others more nuanced, but together they are diluting the federalist model by breaking down the checks and balances our nation’s founders set up [...]
Republican House Approves Department of Education’s End Around of State Legislatures
The Senate level-funded almost all of the education funding. The House increased funding for Title I and Special education, but eliminated 31 other programs including Race to the Top. The compromise spending bill was recently passed by the House, 296-121 this would fund several government programs until September 30, 2012. The Senate is expected to [...]
Congresswoman Bachmann What Are the Intermediate Steps to Closing the Dept. of Ed?
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann shared some thoughts about the federal role of education during a message she gave at Dordt College in Sioux Center, IA yesterday. From The Des Moines Register: “I want to close down the fed Department of Education, turn off lights, lock the doors and instead keep all that money in Iowa,” [...]
Speaker Gingrich, Let’s Not Sacrifice Local Control for School Choice
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich was asked about his support of President Obama’s Race to the Top program during tonight’s NBC-POLITICO debate. He said he supported it because it talked about charter schools. He said he wants to promote school choice. The problem Mr. Speaker is that this program doesn’t promote true school choice, it may [...]
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