Obama Administration Punishes Oklahoma
for Rejecting Common Core;
Standards Not Voluntary After All
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The Obama administration has punished the state of Oklahoma for repealing the Common Core standards despite assertions that the standards are entirely "voluntary." Last week Oklahoma became the second state to lose its waiver from the disastrous Bush-era No Child Left Behind (NCLB) scheme. Washington State was the first, losing its waiver in April after the state legislature failed to come up with a solution that would allow the state to tie its student test results to teacher evaluations.
A lawsuit may be the next step for Governor Fallin, whose anger was palpable in a statement she issued responding to the Department of Ed's move. "It is outrageous that President [Barack] Obama and Washington bureaucrats are trying to dictate how Oklahoma schools spend education dollars," she said. "Because of overwhelming opposition from Oklahoma parents and voters to Common Core, Washington is now acting to punish us. This is one more example of an out-of-control presidency that places a politicized Washington agenda over the well-being of Oklahoma students."
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INVOLVING 2,000 RESOURCE PROVIDERS
THE NEW
"HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE ROADMAP"
"HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE ROADMAP"
TO HELP YOU DETERMINE WHICH PUBLISHERS,
TESTS, AND CURRICULUM MATERIALS ARE
ALIGNED, CORRELATED, COINCIDENTAL
OR INDEPENDENT OF COMMON CORE STANDARDS
AND:
MOM'S CURRICULUM 'ROADMAP' HELPS HOMESCHOOLERS CHOOSE NON-COMMON CORE-ALIGNED PUBLISHERS
SEE: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/01/Mom-s-Curriculum-Roadmap-Helps-Homeschoolers-Choose-Non-Common-Core-Aligned-Publishers;
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A Wisconsin homeschooling parent has developed a curriculum “Roadmap” to help fellow homeschoolers distinguish between those publishers who have chosen to align their instructional products with the Common Core standards and those who have not.
Tina Hollenbeck, a former public school teacher, now a homeschooling mom, told Breitbart News that she initially thought Common Core would not affect her homeschooling instruction.
“Then I found out homeschooling companies were saying, ‘We’re aligning with Common Core,’ and I knew this would not be a good thing,” she said.
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