Truth in American Education

Fighting to stop the Common Core State Standards, their Assessments and Student Data Mining.

  • Home
  • About Us
    • TAE Advocates
    • Network Participants
    • Related Websites
  • Common Core State Standards
    • National Education Standards
    • Gates Foundation & NCEE Influence
    • State Costs for Adopting and Implementing the Common Core State Standards
    • National Curriculum
    • Common Core State Standards Content
      • Standard Algorithms in the Common Core State Standards
    • Myths Versus Facts
    • States Fighting Back Map
    • Closing the Door on Innovation
    • CCSSI Development Teams
  • Common Core Assessments
    • Opt Out Info
  • Race To The Top
    • District-Level Race to the Top–Race to the Top IV
  • Resources
    • Legislative Bills Against CCSS
    • Pioneer Institute White Papers
    • Model Resolutions
    • Parents’ & Educators’ Executive Order
    • CC = Conditions + Coercion + Conflict of Interest
  • Audio & Video
  • Privacy Issues and State Longitudinal Data Systems
    • Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
  • ESEA/NCLB
    • Statements and Proposed Plans
    • Every Child Achieves Act July 2015
    • Student Success Act
    • Every Child Ready for College or Career Act
    • No Child Left Behind Waivers
    • ESEA Blueprint, Briefing Book, and Position Paper
  • Home School/Private School
  • Action Center
    • Parent and Community Action Plan
    • Stop CCSSI ToolKit
    • Sign Up or Contact TAE

It’s Not Too Late for Kansans to Fight the Common Core

April 29, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Kansans Against Common Core sent me an update over the weekend about efforts to revive HB 2289 that was shot down in the Kansas House Committee on Education back in March. Senator Susan Wagle, President of the Senate has stated her opposition to Common Core at a presentation she gave on Friday. This is good […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, HB 2289, Kansas House Committee on Education, Kansas Legislature

How the Kansas House Committee on Education Voted on HB 2289

April 1, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

I was able to obtain a breakdown of how the members of the Kansas House Committee on Education voted on their anti-Common Core bill, HB 2289, that was defeated 7-11 in committee on 3/21. YesKelly (R)Bradford (R)Dove (R)Ghandi (R)Lunn (R)Highland (R)Hedke (R) NoCassidy (D)Trimmer (D)Boldra (R)Bridges (D)Dierks (R)Ewy (R)Houston (D)Lusk (D)Meigs (R)Rooker (R)Winn (D) AbstainGrossrode […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, HB 2289, John Bradford, Kansas House Committee on Education

Update on Kansas Anti-Common Core Bill

March 20, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

2nd Update: There will be a hearing TOMORROW (March 21st) at 12:00 PM Room 112-N of the Kansas State Capitol. Update: Ok, evidently the bill is now back in the Education Committee.  I’m not sure what that means. Here are the members of the education committee. Rep. Kasha Kelley (Chair) Rep. Ward Cassidy (Vice Chair) Rep. Ed […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Amanda Grosserode, Barbara Ballard, Bob Grant, Brian Weber, Common Core State Standards, Dave Crum, Gene Suellentrop, Harold Lane, HB 2289, Jerry Henry, Jerry Lunn, John Bradford, Kansas House, Kansas House Committee on Appropriations, Kansas House Committee on Education, Kansas Legislature, Kasha Kelley, Kyle Hoffman, Marc Rhoades, Mark Huton, Mark Kahrs, Marvin Kleeb, Nile Dillmore, Pete DeGraaf, Richard Carlson, Ron Ryckman, Sharon Schwartz, Sydney Carlin, Virgil Peck, Ward Cassidy

States Fighting Back

March 4, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

J.R. Wilson has updated our map. The Pending Rejection states are so marked as a result of serious discussion or action taken towards withdrawing from the Common Core State Standards, withdrawing from PARCC or SBAC, delaying implementation of standards or assessments, or not funding the implementation.  The discussions or actions considered include public forums, legislative […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Alabama Senate, Florida Legislature, Georgia Senate, HB 1204, HB 1907, HB 2289, HB 377, HB 4276, HB 616, Indiana Senate, Kansas House, Michigan House, Mike Fair, Missouri House, Missouri Senate, Nikki Haley, Oklahoma House, S. 604, SB 167, SB 190, SB 193, SB 210, SB 524, South Carolina Senate, South Dakota House, Utah Legislature

Anti-Common Core Bill Introduced in Kansas

February 14, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

From the Topeka Capital-Journal: A bill in the House Committee on Education would force the Kansas State Department of Education to scrap and replace newly adopted mathematics and English standards and develop tests to match them — something the department says would cost millions of dollars… …Under current law, the Kansas State Board of Education […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, HB 2289, House Bill 2289, Kansas Department of Education, Kansas House, Kansas House Committee on Education, Kansas Legislature, Kansas State Board of Education

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Phone
  • Twitter

States Fighting Back

https://app.box.com/s/10nl1409mkaf00zzzuyf

CCSS Opt-Out Form

  • Click here to download the CCSS Opt-Out Form

Campbell’s Law

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

- Donald Campbell

Copyright © 2019 Truth in American Education · Developed & Hosted by 4:15 Communications, LLC.