What you can do to STOP Common Core

February 27, 2013 0 Comments
What you can do to STOP Common Core

What One Person Can Do To Stop Common Core   Across the nation, many people are beginning to raise concerns about implementing Common Core in our schools. Wondering what you can do?  Here are some suggestions that add to what you’ll find in Truth in American Education’s action center tool kit. 1) Check this map of the U.S. to see if legislative educational liberty movements are happening in […]

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Russ Pulliam endorses SB193!

February 26, 2013 0 Comments

Russ Pulliam had an article in last Saturday’s Indianapolis Star entitled “Let’s pause on Common Core.”  Pulliam rightly tells readers the following: The new superintendent of public instruction, Democrat Glenda Ritz, wants to pause. She has been joined by a few conservative Republicans who see Common Core as a nationalization of education standards. He goes […]

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Bennett Admits Common Core Tests Unaffordable

February 21, 2013 1 Comment

As opponents have tried to point out, implementing Common Core is going to be extremely costly.  Had more states conducted cost analysis’ before they adopted Common Core, they would have know this going into it. The high cost of testing is even starting to be apparent in Florida, which is the “capital” of the Ed […]

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Guess who testified against SB193

February 20, 2013 1 Comment

The Heartland Institute’s Joy Pullman recently released a bomb-shell article, entitled “Education Policies Led by Gates, Not States?”  It blows a large hole in the frequently cited myth that the Common Core initiative was “state-led.” Pullman quotes Jay Greene, who runs the University of Arkansas’ department of education reform as saying: The Gates Foundation completely […]

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Anti-Common Core bill up for a vote tomorrow!

February 20, 2013 0 Comments

Tomorrow, Thursday February 21st, SB193 is up for a vote before the full Senate.  Please keep the calls going to the Senate switchboard at (317)232-9400.  They need to be flooded with phone calls, because reports are that our opponents are doing everything possible to defeat us! In fact, today a national group, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) […]

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