KANSAS: Common Core will STAND ALONE! Please continue calls and emails
We are hearing that the provision to defund Common Core will not be in the final budget but instead will be voted on as a stand-alone bill. Please call your representatives and simply ask them to defund Common Core.
Continue reading →Urgent Action: Stop Common Core in Kansas NOW!
May 20, 2013 Time is of the essence right now in Kansas. We have the opportunity to stop the implementation of the Common Core Standards
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Backlash Against Common Core
The national news media haven’t discovered it, but the issue that is bringing out hundreds of citizens who never before attended political meetings is Common Core (CC). More precisely, it is the attempt of Barack Obama’s Department of Education to force all states and schools to adopt specified national education standards for each grade level that will dictate what all kids learn and don’t learn.
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Wisconsin: Calls Needed to Oppose Common Core
Our representatives in Madison need to hear your concerns about nationalizing education standards in the United States by states adopting the “Common Core” standards. We do not want our children to be “common.”
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New Obama Initiatives to Watch Out For
It should have been a loud wakeup call in December when North Korea successfully launched a three-stage rocket delivering a payload in orbit around the globe. This event established North Korea’s credentials as having intercontinental ballistic missile technology. On December 23, North Korean officials announced that an analysis of the debris from the rocket shows it has the ability to reach the U.S. mainland.
Continue reading →Like ObamaCare, Obama Core Is Another Power Grab
When we list the areas that Barack Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” as he promised before his 2008 election, let’s not overlook his plans for education. They are as fundamentally transformational, costly and dictatorial as ObamaCare.
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What’s Happened to Public School Curriculum?
The most widely used history textbook in U.S. public schools is A People’s History of the United States by the late Howard Zinn.
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Common Core Standards For Public Schools: A Bad Idea
The No Child Left Behind Act, which allowed states to set their own public school standards for “proficiency,” is opposed and considered a failure by all factions in the education world.
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- What Parents Don’t Like About Common Core, Jan. 15
- Common Core’s Growing Unpopularity, Aug. 14
- Growing Rejection of Common Core, June 14
- http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/psr/mar14.html, Mar. 14
- Backlash Against Common Core, July 13
- New Obama Initiatives to Watch Out For, Jan. 13
- What’s Happened to Public School Curriculum?, Nov. 10
LINKS
- Common Core coalition letter, 3-24-15
- Teachers complain Common Core-linked lessons little more than scripts to read, 12-05-13
ALERTS
- Common Core: Victory in Oklahoma! 7-15-14
- OKLAHOMA: Ending Common Core – Please take action! 5-27-14
- GEORGIA: URGENT Calls needed – YES to House Ed on SB 167 3-04-14
- KANSAS: Support HB 2621 in the House Education Committee 3-03-14
- WYOMING: URGENT: Common Core Calls Needed Today! 2-17-14
- KANSAS: URGENT: Tell House Ed Committee to vote YES on HB 2621 2-15-14
- MISSISSIPPI: Help us defeat the Common Core!, 1-30-14
- WISCONSIN: Tell Gov. Walker to Stand AGAINST Common Core!, 1-21-14
- KANSAS: Please Exit the Common Core Now!, 1-13-14
- Join Florida Parents to Protest Common Core in Orlando!, 6-26-14
- Continue Fighting CCS in Kansas!, 6-10-13
- MICHIGAN URGENT: Call Gov. Snyder – CCS Defunding Passes Both Houses!, 6-04-13
- Urge MI Senators to Defund Common Core!, 5-30-13
- Kansas: Pressure Key Leaders to Defund Common Core, 5-30-13
- Urgent: Defund Common Core in Michigan!, 5-28-13
- KANSAS: Last Chance to Defund Common Core!, 5-28-13
- KANSAS: Common Core will STAND ALONE! Please continue calls and emails, 5-22-13
- Urgent Action: Stop Common Core in Kansas NOW!, 5-20-13
On May 11, 2013, the Governor signed the Indiana Common Core bill. This bill requires the State Board to take no further actions to implement any common core standards and calls for the state board, the legislative study committee, and the office of management and budget to conduct “comprehensive evaluations” of the common core standards. In addition, the state board of education is to hold at least three public meetings.
