The Michigan Senate today voted 24-14 to approve the Michigan Department of Education budget with State Representative Tom McMillin's amendment that prevents the department from spending money to implement the Common Core State Standards. Local school districts can still spend money from their budgets to implement it if they wish. McMillin said that the language […]
The Michigan Senate Votes to Defund the Common Core (Updated: Jumped The Gun)
Update: I was just told that today’s education omnibus budget did NOT contain language for defunding the Common Core that they will be voting on that next week. Sorry for jumping the gun, I thought I had reliable information and didn’t realize there was more than one education spending bill. Also, I learned that Governor […]
Common Core Fight Holds Up Michigan Education Budget
Below is an excerpt from a Michigan Information and Research Service report (subscription-based) last night. A conference committee was originally scheduled to meet at 8:45 a.m. this morning to consider the MDE budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014. But by the end of the day, Sen. Howard WALKER (R-Traverse City) reported that the meeting has […]
Michigan Governor Snyder Supports the Common Core
Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI) came out in favor of the Common Core State Standards at a town hall meeting with Education Secretary Arne Duncan in Detroit yesterday. AP reports: Some Republicans and conservatives want to remove Michigan schools from the set of national educational standards and testing for K-12 students. But the Republican governor said […]