Good news! A new Rasmussen Poll shows that support is plummeting with parents of school-age children. Shane VanderHart with Truth in American Education explains the results, “They found that just 34% of adults with children in elementary or secondary school favor all schools nationwide to meet the Common Core State Standards. That is a drop […]
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As the summer campaign season heats up, I’m hearing from people all over the state who say that Common Core is taking center stage at candidate forums. Hillsdale resident and CatholicVote.org co-founder, Joshua Mercer, attended the Candidate Forum for the 58th District sponsored by the Hillsdale County Republican Woman on Wednesday. Mercer contacted me via […]
Governor Snyder signed the School Omnibus Budget Bill on Tuesday. Included in the budget was a provision that appears to have blocked the implementation of Smarter Balanced for one year by extending the MEAP. This is obviously a good thing in many ways. Thanks to your calls and the the hard work of lawmakers against […]
Fox News reports that Common Core is becoming the new litmus test inside the Republican Party. Common Core has emerged as the newest Republican litmus test for gauging candidates’ conservative bona fides, and experts say the controversial national education standard will help shape elections from school boards to the White House for the foreseeable future. […]
Governor Snyder said in his 2011 State of the State Addresss, “We’ve been spending money without delivering the results to give our young people a bright future. It is time that we view our educational system which runs from pre-natal to lifelong learning. It’s time to start talking about P-20 instead of just K-12. We […]
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The “College Core” is coming
The Education Trust issued a press release about their new report Tough Love: Bottom-Line Quality Standards for Colleges. Quoting the press release the report, “lays out a comprehensive plan for the federal government to leverage existing resources, in the form of student aid and tax benefits, to protect students and taxpayer dollars from going to […]
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Common Core Endorsements Matter
Endorsements matter. They are significant both financially and politically. In this post I highlight two lobby groups, Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) and Students First and discuss the impact they have on educational freedom and Michigan elections. Pro-Common Core is against educational freedom. An anti-Common Core candidate getting the GLEP or Students First endorsement is […]
In a recent email and webinar, Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) asserted that “At this time, we have not seen any evidence that the redesigned SAT will harm homeschoolers in any way.” Is that a valid statement? Simply by looking at the documentation provided on the Common Core website written by HSLDA, the answer is […]
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) since we began our 2014: Election Roll Call which notes the candidates position on Common Core and whether they have been endorsed by GLEP. In that post we wrote, We will also be including the names of candidates and incumbents who […]
Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) hosted a webinar with College Board President, David Coleman, last Friday. If you were hoping for a take-down of Coleman it didn’t happen. The email sent out by HSLDA President Mike Smith before the event gave us a hint at the tone, At this time, we have not seen any […]