St. Louis, Missouri- Former Congressman and school teacher Allen West spoke at Constitutional Coalition’s 25th Anniversary Educational Policy Conference, where he received a standing ovation for condemning Common Core educational standards
Florida Eagle Forum sent out a press release stating that West told the audience of 600+ that Common Core was “the manifestation of collective progressivism in education.”
According to the Eagle Forum release, West also said that American children were lagging behind other children from around the world, when it came to education, and also added that “states are fighting tooth and nail against President Obama’s newest educational experiment which we all know as Common Core…and that Common Core is rotten to the core.”