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Stop Common Core Progress Update

May 25, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

commoncore1We are drawing close to the end of the state legislative sessions.  I thought it would be a good time to highlight the progress that has been made in fighting the Common Core.  If you look back just a few months ago you can see how far our movement has come.  Some significant progress was made in just the last five months.

  1. The Republican National Committee passed a resolution rejecting the Common Core State Standards.
  2. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) then called on the federal defunding of the Common Core State Standards, the assessments and the federal review board for the assessments.  He had eight other Senators join him.
  3. Indiana passed a Common Core Pause bill which brings more transparency for the Common Core implementation in the Hoosier State.  The Indiana State Board of Education is required to hold three public hearings and have a fiscal impact study done before they can continue to implement the Common Core.  Our hope is this will lead to a repeal bill as the facts, not just the propaganda, becomes known.
  4. The Utah GOP passed their own resolution condemning the Common Core State Standards.
  5. The Georgia GOP Resolutions Committee passed their anti-Common Core resolution 11-3 despite major lobbying being done on behalf of Governor Nathan Deal.  The Georgia GOP Convention were not able to take up any resolutions as the convention ran late and they lost their quorum.  This follows four district conventions passing their own anti-Common Core resolutions.  Governor Deal recently ordered 60 days of public comment on the Common Core in response to pressure he has been under.
  6. Alabama pulled out of the SBAC and PARCC assessment consortiums.  They were only the second state to do so.  Utah did last year.
  7. Michigan is on the verge of defunding the Common Core State Standards.
  8. Kansas could still defund the Common Core State Standards this year.
  9. Oklahoma after seeing their initial bill get derailed had their Speaker of the House do a 180 and is now working to repeal the Common Core in their state.
  10. Iowa put Common Core Assessments on hold and now requires a task force to be formed to study different assessments (not just tie themselves to SBAC) and do a fiscal impact study before the State Legislature will vote on an assessment.  The time frame for assessments were pushed back to the 2016-17 school year.  This is a turn around as the original language in Iowa’s education reform bill gave the State Board of Education the authority to mandate Smarter Balanced Assessments.  So a conference committee stripped that language and inserted the pause.  Also opposition is forming within the State Legislature so look for repeal and defunding bills to be forthcoming next session (their session ended yesterday).
  11. Louisiana Senate is currently working on an anti-Common Core resolution.
  12. Wisconsin just had a hearing on the Common Core Wednesday, and it sounds like it likely that pause legislation will be introduced in that state.
  13. North Carolina Senate introduced in their budget language that requires the State Board of Education have the legislature approve any expenditures related to the Common Core and their assessments.   This language is backed up in their Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013.
  14. Legislation has been introduced in Congress by Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-AL) entitled “Defending State Authority Over Education Act.”  This would “prohibit the federal government from offering grants or policy waivers contingent on a state’s use of certain curricula or assessment policies.”
  15. Pennsylvania is experiencing push-back that led Governor Tom Corbett to sign an executive order delaying the Common Core implementation. (Still need legislative action so this is permanent).
  16. Ohio is having a budget battle over the Common Core State Standards, after the Ohio House stripped funding for PARCC from their budget.
  17. States that have had legislation introduced this year that would either pause or repeal the Common Core State Standards: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota.  States that are still active are mentioned above.  States that had bills die in committee (or in Missouri’s case was halted due to political games prior to a floor vote) we expect will see efforts again next session.
  18. We have seen an explosion of anti-Common Core state-based groups over the last several months.

It is clear that we have momentum in what seemed a year ago to be an impossible uphill battle.

Originally posted at American Principles Project.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Chuck Grassley, Common Core State Standards, Fight Common Core, Georgia GOP, Iowa Legislature, Kansas Legislature, Louisiana Senate, Michigan Legislature, Nathan Deal, North Carolina Senate, Ohio Legislature, Oklahoma Legislature, PARCC, Pennsylvania Legislature, Republican National Committee, Smarter Balanced Assessments, States Fighting Common Core, Tom Corbett, Utah GOP, Wisconsin Legislature

Comments

  1. duchesslt says

    May 25, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    Shane, I hope you and all your colleagues who worked with you are proud of the strides you are making towards stopping the insanity of expensive PARCC/SBAC assessments and questioning the roll out of the common core standards as just being a high stakes game for Race to the Top federal funding. Pearson was on track to publish defacto national curriculum and has an awful track record so far with its rollout of Common Core tests in NY.

    Congratulations and Thank You for this effort!

    • Shane Vander Hart says

      May 28, 2013 at 11:22 pm

      You are welcome!

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