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Obama Administration
Nationalizing Common Core Standards
By Rachel Sheffield
At a Tea Party gathering last month, Indiana Schools Superintendent
Tony Bennett expressed his concern with the growing federal overreach
of Common Core education standards. “This administration has an
insatiable appetite for federal overreach,” he said. “The federal
government’s involvement in these standards is wrong.”
The Indianapolis Star adds:
Bennett pointed out that the Common Core’s standards originated with
the National Governors Association, and were intended for voluntary
adoption by states. Then, according to Bennett, Obama nationalized the
standards and has tried to use federal clout to force the Common Core
on the states.
That the standards were ever simply a state-led effort is questionable.
Regardless, the push for national education standards has quickly
become a major focus of the Obama Administration’s agenda.
From the beginning, the Administration has attempted to lure states to
the standards with federal dollars. It began with Race to the Top money
as well as a proposal to make Title I dollars contingent on a state’s
adoption of the standards. Most recently, the Administration has
required states to sign on to the standards in order to receive No
Child Left Behind waivers.
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