Diane Douglas beat pro-Common Core incumbent Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal in convincing fashion 57.78% to 41.50% winning over 66,000 more votes according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office. The barbarians at the gate crashed through evidently. Huppenthal is the third incumbent state school chief to go down in flames over supporting […]
Indiana Repealing “Voluntary” Common Core Puts NCLB Waiver in Doubt
So the Common Core is “voluntary” huh? Indiana could lose their (unconstitutional) NCLB waiver as a result jettisoning the Common Core (for a subpar rebranding, but I digress). Chalkbeat reported last week: On Thursday, Indiana State Superintendent Glenda Ritz received a letter from Deb Delisle, assistant U.S. secretary of education, spelling out concerns about “significant […]
Indiana Senate to Vote on Bill Abolishing Common Core
From WIBC 93.1FM in Indianapolis: The Senate will vote next week on a bill to put the final nail in the coffin of the Common Core education standards. Last year, legislators ordered the State Board of Education to pass new academic standards by July of this year. The Senate Education Committee has approved a bill […]
Governors Race to the Drop (of Common Core)
I have to admit. I didn’t coin that title; credit goes to Heather Crossin who coined it in an email. We have had a couple of Governors make some statements about the Common Core as state legislatures go into session. Republican Governor Mike Pence of Indiana in his state of the state address last week […]
Indiana Democrats Put Politics Before Kids, Skip Common Core Vote
I can’t believe I missed this news last week. It needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Members of the Indiana legislative study committee formed by the pause legislation passed last session voted 6 to 1 in favor of replacing the Common Core… a twist though since all Democrat members minus one decided not to […]
Indiana Pulling Away From PARCC
Indiana is reducing its participation with PARCC. State Impact Indiana reports: As a governing state in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, Indiana gets a seat at the table. But no one from the Department of Education has attended a PARCC governing board meeting since Superintendent Glenda Ritz took office in […]
Indiana’s Common Core Pause Law Isn’t Complex
State Impact Indiana reports that there was a push for 2nd Graders to be under the Common Core State Standards since they were rolled out for Kindergarten and First grade last year. This is even after the Common Core pause bill was passed and signed into law. Elle Moxley writes: After state lawmakers passed a […]
Glenda Ritz’ Opposition to Common Core Highlighted
Since Glenda Ritz is now the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction-Elect she’ll need to be reminded of what she wrote prior to her election on November 7th. This is one of the primary reasons Tony Bennett lost. Erin Tuttle at Hoosiers Against Common Core highlighted her position statement: Common Core Standards must be re-evaluated.Indiana had […]
The Tony Bennett Ouster Debate Continues
The debate continues. You may remember Matthew Ladner called anti-common core activists in Indiana a bunch of yahoos since they helped defeat incumbent Republican Tony Bennett in the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction race. Erin Tuttle, who for a “yahoo” writes quite well :), wrote in the Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette: The Bennett fiasco brought an […]
Indiana’s Education Election is a Mixed Bag
Democrat challenger Glenda Ritz defeated Republican incumbent Tony Bennett in the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction race last night by almost 133,000 votes – winning 53% to 47%. This is a mixed bag for me. On one hand Tony Bennett, who advocated for the Common Core State Standards, said that advocacy cost him. How does […]