Senator Marco Rubio has spoken out against the Common Core. From the Florida website Shark Tank, ” While many top Republicans, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, have come out in support of Common Core, Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has once again bucked the establishment by stating that he is against the Common Core […]
Ben Lazarus, Warren Consolidated Schools Board of Education Trustee, discusses the Common Core Curriculum in the video below. He has also started a petition asking our lawmakers to vote against the implementation of Common core. Sign Ben Lazarus’s petition to Stop Common Core implementation in Michigan. Here’s the full petition: Petition to Stop the Common […]
Melanie Kurdys comments to lawmakers regarding the first hearing….. Thank you all for spending yesterday morning listening to testimony about Common Core. The two advocates who spoke, Mr. Cohen and Superintendent Flanagan, made their best case as to why this is a good idea. I appreciate the questions you asked, but it was frustrating that […]
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Speakers Announced for July 31 Hearing
The first meeting of the Michigan House Common Core Committee was frustrating to say the least. Testimony was presented by Mike Cohen, President of Achieve and Mike Flanagan, Michigan’s State Superintendent. Both strong advocates of Common Core had testimony that included biased terminology, misleading statements, incomplete answers to questions and Cohen had blatant lies. (Video of […]
Diane Ravitch explains how Bill Gates is moving past K-12 and taking his money to reform higher education. With $36 billion, the Gates Foundation has too much money, too much power, and not enough common sense nor willingness to listen to those who warn that they are doing harm to basic social institutions. Now the […]
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Fringe or Freedom?
The media is working hard to write the narrative that those who oppose Common Core are “fringe.” Jack Lessenberry chimes in with this headline, “The lunatic fringe opposes Common Core.:” America always has had strange outliers on the margins of our politics, from half-secret movements like the Know-Nothings to the left-wing crazies of the late […]
Two speakers FOR the Common Core and none AGAINST intended to give a historical view of the Common Core. This fact was not lost on Melanie Kurdys who said, “That is very disappointing to me in terms of balance,” Kurdys said. “He’s [Rep. Kelly] assured me that the next meetings will be more balanced.” […]
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News Round Up on Today’s Hearing
A YouTube of the hearing should be available shortly but in the meantime here’s a couple news stories about today’s hearing. From MLive: Tempers flare at 1st Common Core hearing as legislators clash with Flanagan, each other. Flanagan began his testimony before the panel by asking legislators to take action as soon as possible, so […]
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Live Stream of Today’s Hearing
The first House Panel on Common Core is today at 9 AM. You can watch it live by going to this link. http://house.michigan.gov/htv_detailed.asp
Hearings begin tomorrow in Lansing to decide the fate of Common Core in Michigan. Lori Higgins, education writer at the Detroit Free Press thinks this should have been a “slam dunk.” Michigan’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards, a set of learning goals embraced by 44 other states in the nation, should have been […]