A new study by Matthew Chingos of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution shows that states will be spending $1.7 Billion a year in assessments. We are still not sure how the Common Core State Standards assessments will be sustained after the federal funding for their development runs out in 2014 […]
Stop The Common Core Video Series
Stop Common Core, American Principles Project and the Concerned Women of America in Georgia made the following video series on the Common Core State Standards possible. Jane Robbins of American Principles Project gives a broad explanation of the problems of the Common Core. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part […]
The “Enemy’s” Response to Fordham’s Wishful Cost Projections
Edweek reported today on the conflicting studies completed aimed at determining how much the Common Core State Standards will cost. The Pioneer Institute and the American Principles Project in their report last February estimated a $16 Billion price tag. The Fordham Institute, a pro-common core think tank, estimates up to $8.3 Billion could be spent […]
Delay Tactics on Anti-Common Core Resolution is Troubling
I’m not surprised, but disappointed by the American Legislative Exchange Council executive board decision yesterday to delay their vote on a anti-common core resolution proposed by the American Principles Project, Goldwater Institute, and Washington Policy Center last summer. American Principles Project sent out a press release on the vote: Washington, DC – Today, the board […]
Common Core Standards Cost Exceeds RTTT Stimulus Funds
The Obama Administration spent an unprecedented $4.35 billion in Stimulus money to create an incentive for states to join the Common Core Standards and compete in the Race to the Top competition. All but five states (Virginia, Texas, Nebraska, Alaska, and Minnesota) jumped on the Common Core bandwagon, salivating for an outsized piece of the $4.35 […]
Is The U.S. Dept. of Education Violating Federal Law by Directing Standards, Tests & Curricula?
BOSTON, MA —Despite three federal laws that prohibit federal departments or agencies from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new report written by a former general […]
ALEC Education Task Force Approves Anti-Common Core Model Legislation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) met last week in Scottsdale, AZ. They are an organization whose mission is “to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public.” They have […]