Tag: Russ Pulliam

How we took down the Common Core

May 5, 2013 3 Comments
How we took down the Common Core

Yesterday’s Indianapolis Star contained a great article by Russ Pulliam entitiled, How Indiana’s grass-roots activists took down the Common Core.  It begins: The Common Core academic standards looked like a mighty Goliath when opponents began their opposition last year. Adopted by almost all the states, the standards had powerful backing in Indiana from the state […]

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Russ Pulliam: Let’s Pause on Common Core

March 1, 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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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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Indiana Common Core foes have Hope

January 12, 2013 0 Comments

Don’t miss Russ Pulliam’s excellent article in today’s Indianapolis Star, entitled “Common Core foes have hope.”  Pulliam aptly describes the left-right alliance that is forming in opposition to the Common Core in Indiana.  He has this to write, regarding Chairman Dennis Kruse of the Senate Education Committee: Education Committee Chairman Dennis Kruse thinks lawmakers need […]

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