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Stop Common Core in Michigan announced yesterday that Michigan State Representative Gary Glenn (R-Midland) will announce on Wednesday next week a new effort to repeal and replace the Common Core State Standards in the state.
They give some of the details of the new bill that Glenn is sponsoring:
Details include:
- Repeals Common Core (CC) in its entirety.
- Defines the immediate replacement of standards as the proven and superior Massachusetts (MA) pre-CC standards.
- All references to MA will become MI, including state of MI history.
- Confirms parental right to Opt-Out without consequences.
- Clarifies that the new standards can be revised and adopted after five years in MI.
- Terminates federal control of the MI education process.
- Prohibits MI standards from being developed in a national or multi-state consortium.
- Confirms responsibilities of the local districts; allows defining their own standards.
- Clarifies that locals not using state standards will not suffer financial repercussions.
Defines a new assessment based on the pre-CC Massachusetts standards.
- Restricts development of a new assessment to five years.
- Will not require, but can use, computer technology.
- Will not permit the collection of data about student’s values, attitudes, beliefs and personality traits.
- Requires public availability of test questions used for test transparency.
- Must be approved by the state legislature with a transparent process.
Stop Common Core in Michigan asks all parents and activists to contact their representative and encourage them to support and co-sponsor the bill. The bill has not yet been filed and does not have a bill number, but you can read the wording of the latest draft of the bill Truth in American Education was provided below.
Can you Truth In American Education provide information on the MA standards. I am weary to accept the assertion that these are superior or are ‘better’ without understanding what those standards are. I shared this post on a city-wide FB page and within 10 mins I got questions about why MA is better? I can’t answer that, but the question will be asked again…and if we can’t answer, it will be used against the CC warriors. I searched your site but couldn’t find any info on the MA 2008 standards. Help is appreciated.
Deb, I’ll see if I can get my hands on them. I don’t have a copy on my laptop.