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Western Journalism has reported extensively about the lengths to which leftists will go in protecting the federal educational guidelines included in the oft-maligned Common Core program. Nevertheless, public backlash, primarily from concerned parents, has led many states to reconsider their alignment with the curriculum.
One such state is Indiana, which decided to drop Common Core from its public school system last month. As a result, recent reports indicate the state’s superintendent of public instruction received a stern letter from the U.S. Department of Education. The correspondence reads, in part:
IDOE (Indiana Department of Education) met ED (Department of Education) requirements in its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind]) flexibility request through the 2013-14 school year by adopting and implementing standards common to a significant number of States. Because the IDOE will no longer implement those standards, IDOE must amend its ESEA flexibility request and provide evidence that its new standards are certified by a State network of IHEs (Institutions of Higher Education) that students who meet the standards will not need remedial coursework at the postsecondary level.
Basically, Indiana educators are being told they are losing waivers given to states that adopt Common Core, which allow them to forego some of the demands included in the No Child Left Behind Act. Even though the state, upon dropping the federal mandate, initiated a plan to develop its own educational guidelines, D.C. bureaucrats are using strong-arm tactics to impose a homogenous curriculum on all students.
While the 10th Amendment seems to clearly state that state or local governments should be in charge of handling education, the establishment of the DOE has incrementally increased federal control over the nation’s schools. With the implementation of Common Core, it now seems that individual states have little say over what lessons the next generation will receive.
This prospect is even more chilling when one considers the blatant leftist propaganda that is being regularly exposed from within the pages of Common Core lesson plans.
Indiana, as it turns out, boasted state education standards that led the nation prior to the coerced adoption of Common Core. Now that the state has decided to forego the federally mandated program, the DOE claims it is somehow substandard.
As a result, the state board has a two-month timeline to provide evidence that its program complies with what federal authorities deem appropriate.
In the end, conservative skeptics appear to have been vindicated. What was initially sold as a state-initiated program has devolved into yet another exhibition of federal control.
Photo Credit: Raul654 (Creative Commons)
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/indiana-learns-hard-way-feds-will-reject-common-core/#XBlf0TIF9t9LtC94.99
Western Journalism has reported extensively about the lengths to which leftists will go in protecting the federal educational guidelines included in the oft-maligned Common Core program. Nevertheless, public backlash, primarily from concerned parents, has led many states to reconsider their alignment with the curriculum.
One such state is Indiana, which decided to drop Common Core from its public school system last month. As a result, recent reports indicate the state’s superintendent of public instruction received a stern letter from the U.S. Department of Education. The correspondence reads, in part:
IDOE (Indiana Department of Education) met ED (Department of Education) requirements in its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind]) flexibility request through the 2013-14 school year by adopting and implementing standards common to a significant number of States. Because the IDOE will no longer implement those standards, IDOE must amend its ESEA flexibility request and provide evidence that its new standards are certified by a State network of IHEs (Institutions of Higher Education) that students who meet the standards will not need remedial coursework at the postsecondary level.
Basically, Indiana educators are being told they are losing waivers given to states that adopt Common Core, which allow them to forego some of the demands included in the No Child Left Behind Act. Even though the state, upon dropping the federal mandate, initiated a plan to develop its own educational guidelines, D.C. bureaucrats are using strong-arm tactics to impose a homogenous curriculum on all students.
While the 10th Amendment seems to clearly state that state or local governments should be in charge of handling education, the establishment of the DOE has incrementally increased federal control over the nation’s schools. With the implementation of Common Core, it now seems that individual states have little say over what lessons the next generation will receive.
This prospect is even more chilling when one considers the blatant leftist propaganda that is being regularly exposed from within the pages of Common Core lesson plans.
Indiana, as it turns out, boasted state education standards that led the nation prior to the coerced adoption of Common Core. Now that the state has decided to forego the federally mandated program, the DOE claims it is somehow substandard.
As a result, the state board has a two-month timeline to provide evidence that its program complies with what federal authorities deem appropriate.
In the end, conservative skeptics appear to have been vindicated. What was initially sold as a state-initiated program has devolved into yet another exhibition of federal control.
Photo Credit: Raul654 (Creative Commons)
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/indiana-learns-hard-way-feds-will-reject-common-core/#XBlf0TIF9t9LtC94.99
Western Journalism has reported extensively about the lengths to which leftists will go in protecting the federal educational guidelines included in the oft-maligned Common Core program. Nevertheless, public backlash, primarily from concerned parents, has led many states to reconsider their alignment with the curriculum.
One such state is Indiana, which decided to drop Common Core from its public school system last month. As a result, recent reports indicate the state’s superintendent of public instruction received a stern letter from the U.S. Department of Education. The correspondence reads, in part:
IDOE (Indiana Department of Education) met ED (Department of Education) requirements in its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind]) flexibility request through the 2013-14 school year by adopting and implementing standards common to a significant number of States. Because the IDOE will no longer implement those standards, IDOE must amend its ESEA flexibility request and provide evidence that its new standards are certified by a State network of IHEs (Institutions of Higher Education) that students who meet the standards will not need remedial coursework at the postsecondary level.
Basically, Indiana educators are being told they are losing waivers given to states that adopt Common Core, which allow them to forego some of the demands included in the No Child Left Behind Act. Even though the state, upon dropping the federal mandate, initiated a plan to develop its own educational guidelines, D.C. bureaucrats are using strong-arm tactics to impose a homogenous curriculum on all students.
While the 10th Amendment seems to clearly state that state or local governments should be in charge of handling education, the establishment of the DOE has incrementally increased federal control over the nation’s schools. With the implementation of Common Core, it now seems that individual states have little say over what lessons the next generation will receive.
This prospect is even more chilling when one considers the blatant leftist propaganda that is being regularly exposed from within the pages of Common Core lesson plans.
Indiana, as it turns out, boasted state education standards that led the nation prior to the coerced adoption of Common Core. Now that the state has decided to forego the federally mandated program, the DOE claims it is somehow substandard.
As a result, the state board has a two-month timeline to provide evidence that its program complies with what federal authorities deem appropriate.
In the end, conservative skeptics appear to have been vindicated. What was initially sold as a state-initiated program has devolved into yet another exhibition of federal control.
Photo Credit: Raul654 (Creative Commons)
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/indiana-learns-hard-way-feds-will-reject-common-core/#XBlf0TIF9t9LtC94.99
Western Journalism has reported extensively about the lengths to which leftists will go in protecting the federal educational guidelines included in the oft-maligned Common Core program. Nevertheless, public backlash, primarily from concerned parents, has led many states to reconsider their alignment with the curriculum.
One such state is Indiana, which decided to drop Common Core from its public school system last month. As a result, recent reports indicate the state’s superintendent of public instruction received a stern letter from the U.S. Department of Education. The correspondence reads, in part:
IDOE (Indiana Department of Education) met ED (Department of Education) requirements in its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind]) flexibility request through the 2013-14 school year by adopting and implementing standards common to a significant number of States. Because the IDOE will no longer implement those standards, IDOE must amend its ESEA flexibility request and provide evidence that its new standards are certified by a State network of IHEs (Institutions of Higher Education) that students who meet the standards will not need remedial coursework at the postsecondary level.
Basically, Indiana educators are being told they are losing waivers given to states that adopt Common Core, which allow them to forego some of the demands included in the No Child Left Behind Act. Even though the state, upon dropping the federal mandate, initiated a plan to develop its own educational guidelines, D.C. bureaucrats are using strong-arm tactics to impose a homogenous curriculum on all students.
While the 10th Amendment seems to clearly state that state or local governments should be in charge of handling education, the establishment of the DOE has incrementally increased federal control over the nation’s schools. With the implementation of Common Core, it now seems that individual states have little say over what lessons the next generation will receive.
This prospect is even more chilling when one considers the blatant leftist propaganda that is being regularly exposed from within the pages of Common Core lesson plans.
Indiana, as it turns out, boasted state education standards that led the nation prior to the coerced adoption of Common Core. Now that the state has decided to forego the federally mandated program, the DOE claims it is somehow substandard.
As a result, the state board has a two-month timeline to provide evidence that its program complies with what federal authorities deem appropriate.
In the end, conservative skeptics appear to have been vindicated. What was initially sold as a state-initiated program has devolved into yet another exhibition of federal control.
Photo Credit: Raul654 (Creative Commons)
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/indiana-learns-hard-way-feds-will-reject-common-core/#XBlf0TIF9t9LtC94.99
Western Journalism has reported extensively about the lengths to which leftists will go in protecting the federal educational guidelines included in the oft-maligned Common Core program. Nevertheless, public backlash, primarily from concerned parents, has led many states to reconsider their alignment with the curriculum.
One such state is Indiana, which decided to drop Common Core from its public school system last month. As a result, recent reports indicate the state’s superintendent of public instruction received a stern letter from the U.S. Department of Education. The correspondence reads, in part:
IDOE (Indiana Department of Education) met ED (Department of Education) requirements in its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind]) flexibility request through the 2013-14 school year by adopting and implementing standards common to a significant number of States. Because the IDOE will no longer implement those standards, IDOE must amend its ESEA flexibility request and provide evidence that its new standards are certified by a State network of IHEs (Institutions of Higher Education) that students who meet the standards will not need remedial coursework at the postsecondary level.
Basically, Indiana educators are being told they are losing waivers given to states that adopt Common Core, which allow them to forego some of the demands included in the No Child Left Behind Act. Even though the state, upon dropping the federal mandate, initiated a plan to develop its own educational guidelines, D.C. bureaucrats are using strong-arm tactics to impose a homogenous curriculum on all students.
While the 10th Amendment seems to clearly state that state or local governments should be in charge of handling education, the establishment of the DOE has incrementally increased federal control over the nation’s schools. With the implementation of Common Core, it now seems that individual states have little say over what lessons the next generation will receive.
This prospect is even more chilling when one considers the blatant leftist propaganda that is being regularly exposed from within the pages of Common Core lesson plans.
Indiana, as it turns out, boasted state education standards that led the nation prior to the coerced adoption of Common Core. Now that the state has decided to forego the federally mandated program, the DOE claims it is somehow substandard.
As a result, the state board has a two-month timeline to provide evidence that its program complies with what federal authorities deem appropriate.
In the end, conservative skeptics appear to have been vindicated. What was initially sold as a state-initiated program has devolved into yet another exhibition of federal control.
Photo Credit: Raul654 (Creative Commons)
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/indiana-learns-hard-way-feds-will-reject-common-core/#XBlf0TIF9t9LtC94.99
Western Journalism has reported extensively about the lengths to which leftists will go in protecting the federal educational guidelines included in the oft-maligned Common Core program. Nevertheless, public backlash, primarily from concerned parents, has led many states to reconsider their alignment with the curriculum.
One such state is Indiana, which decided to drop Common Core from its public school system last month. As a result, recent reports indicate the state’s superintendent of public instruction received a stern letter from the U.S. Department of Education. The correspondence reads, in part:
IDOE (Indiana Department of Education) met ED (Department of Education) requirements in its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind]) flexibility request through the 2013-14 school year by adopting and implementing standards common to a significant number of States. Because the IDOE will no longer implement those standards, IDOE must amend its ESEA flexibility request and provide evidence that its new standards are certified by a State network of IHEs (Institutions of Higher Education) that students who meet the standards will not need remedial coursework at the postsecondary level.
Basically, Indiana educators are being told they are losing waivers given to states that adopt Common Core, which allow them to forego some of the demands included in the No Child Left Behind Act. Even though the state, upon dropping the federal mandate, initiated a plan to develop its own educational guidelines, D.C. bureaucrats are using strong-arm tactics to impose a homogenous curriculum on all students.
While the 10th Amendment seems to clearly state that state or local governments should be in charge of handling education, the establishment of the DOE has incrementally increased federal control over the nation’s schools. With the implementation of Common Core, it now seems that individual states have little say over what lessons the next generation will receive.
This prospect is even more chilling when one considers the blatant leftist propaganda that is being regularly exposed from within the pages of Common Core lesson plans.
Indiana, as it turns out, boasted state education standards that led the nation prior to the coerced adoption of Common Core. Now that the state has decided to forego the federally mandated program, the DOE claims it is somehow substandard.
As a result, the state board has a two-month timeline to provide evidence that its program complies with what federal authorities deem appropriate.
In the end, conservative skeptics appear to have been vindicated. What was initially sold as a state-initiated program has devolved into yet another exhibition of federal control.
Photo Credit: Raul654 (Creative Commons)
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/indiana-learns-hard-way-feds-will-reject-common-core/#XBlf0TIF9t9LtC94.99
With the federal government’s constant claims that Common Core does not represent a federal takeover of the education system, those who connect the dots understand that their claim is not true. In addition to the concerns about a federal takeover of education, there have been reports of disturbing Common Core lessons around the country, including students being encouraged to be Holocaust deniers, and parents being arrested for challenging the curriculum. So, there is much to be concerned about when it comes to Common Core.
Earlier this week on Special Report with Bret Baier, conservative author, columnist, and commentator George Will had a response for his fellow panelist, Democrat Juan Williams, and those who are pushing for nationwide Common Core standards. It took Will under 90 seconds to destroy Common Core on so many levels.
Juan Williams: “And, I don’t think it’s out of place for our governors, for our school leaders, local school leaders, to say, ‘Here are the common standards that we want them to achieve.’
The military’s on board, the Chamber of Commerce is on board, even Condoleeza Rice and the Council of Foreign Affairs are on board.”
George Will’s response is powerful, even connecting the lies told about Common Core to those lies told about Obamacare by beginning with a play on words of Obama’s ‘Lie of the Year.’
George Will: They’re all wrong, and here’s why.“The advocates of the Common Core say, ‘If you like local control over your schools, you can keep it. Period. If you like your local curriculum, you can keep it. Period.’ And people don’t believe them, for very good reasons.”
“This is a thin end of an enormous wedge of federal power that will be wielded for the constant progressive purpose of concentrating power in Washington, so that it can impose continental solutions to problems nationwide.”
“You (common core supporters) say it’s voluntary. It has been driven by the (federal government’s) use of bribes and coercion in the form of waivers from No Child Left Behind or Race to the Top money – to buy the compliance of these 45 states, two of which – Indiana, and I believe, Oklahoma – have already backed out, and they will not be the last.”
“Watch the verb ‘align’ in this argument. They’re going to align the SAT and the ACT tests with the curriculum. They’re going to align the textbooks with the tests. And sooner or later, you inevitably have a national curriculum that disregards the creativity of federalism.”
“What are the chances (speaking to Juan Williams) that we’re going to have five or six creative governors experimenting with different curricula, or one creative, constant, permanent Washington bureaucracy overlooking our education?”
“We’ve had 50 years now of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – 50 years of federal involvement that has coincided with stagnation in test scores across the country.”
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