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The Daily Signal
Legislation
Lets States Cut Ties Between Common Core and Federal Grants
Kelsey Harkness
December 08, 2014
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has drafted legislation to prohibit the
federal government from “mandating, incentivizing or coercing” states
to adopt the national education standards known as Common Core, The
Daily Signal has learned.
The intent of Vitter’s bill is to enable states to more easily exit the
national standards, which more and more parents and educators have come
to oppose, by voiding requirements attached to previously issued
waivers from federal law.
States likely could retain their waivers from the law, called No Child
Left Behind, even if they chose to pull out of Common Core.
Opponents have criticized the Obama administration for “incentivizing”
states to sign on to the Common Core standards by offering $4.35
billion in grants and waivers under its “Race to the Top” program.
Of his bill, Vitter, a former supporter of Common Core, told The Daily
Signal:
I’ve fought tooth and nail for local control of
education and against the enormous growth of federal power under
President Obama. That includes prohibiting the federal government from
mandating, coercing or bribing states to adopt Common Core or its
equivalent.
Vitter quietly filed his legislation, the Local Control of Education
Act, as a standalone bill last week but intends to propose it as an
amendment to the spending bill that Congress must pass this week...
Read the rest of the article and see a video at The Daily Signal
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