As the Common Core standards continue to draw intense controversy from parents, teachers, and taxpayers across the country, one of the test consortia creating and operating the multi-state assessments aligned with the standards has abruptly delayed its field tests by
AUSTIN, TEXAS–“The system left unchecked will become the tyranny of evil men,” is the dire warning former Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott said to audience about public education at the SXSWedu 2014 conference in Austin this week. Scott tackled complex
There was a modicum of friendly coverage on Senator Wendy Davis’ (D-Fort Worth) appearance at the SXSWedu 2014 conference in Austin last week. No doubt, she was a vision in beige with matching boots and four education planks on her
The state of Indiana could be poised to become the first state to fully withdraw from the Common Core standards; but in the battle that continues in the Hoosier state, Americans will see the strong political pressure placed upon parents,
Tennessee State Rep. Joe Carr (R) would like to see the Common Core Learning Standards repealed entirely in his state, but he was happy that on Thursday state lawmakers voted to delay the standards for two years. Carr, who is
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) accused President Barack Obama of wanting to “bully” states into adopting a Common Core system that would federalize education and eventually empower bureaucracies, instead of local governments, as it imposes top-down standards. Appearing on Breitbart News
Bill Gates, whose private foundation has spent upward of $170 million for the development and implementation of the Common Core State Standards, is asking teachers to help parents understand the standards, hoping this effort will defeat critics of the centralized
Big business interests that want Common Core imposed will unleash an advertisement campaign to blunt the momentum of conservatives and grassroots parents across the country in their efforts to stop the implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards. The top-down
Achieve Inc., the progressive nonprofit education company that helped develop the Common Core standards, says that its third national poll shows the standards and the tests aligned with them have “solid voter support.” The company states its poll was conducted
AUSTIN, TEXAS–TAMSA (Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment) is the mom-pack posing as the grassroots on the Texas education advocacy front that Breitbart Texas reported flew under the radar when working with elected officials Representative Jimmy Don Aycock (R-Killen) and
Though the Oklahoma state House passed a bill Wednesday to repeal Common Core standards by a vote of 78 to 12, the bill was derailed in the Senate. The bill, HB3399, which was introduced by Speaker of the House Jeff
While Common Core may have started as a state-led effort, the Obama Administration has seized on it as a federal goal and is using federal funds to coerce states into implementing Common Core. The administration has handed out stimulus
Education standards experts continue to be highly critical of the College Board’s announcement last week of significant changes to the SAT that appear to be motivated by both a liberal social justice agenda and a desire to increase market share.
Breitbart Texas recently exposed attacks against Texas parents, every day concerned moms and dads who were questioning why Common Core books and worksheets were showing up in Texas classrooms. Why was this happening at all? Texas said no to the Common
Many South Carolina parents are urging state Senate Education Committee members to approve a bill Wednesday that would repeal the Common Core State Standards without any compromise amendments. State Sen. Larry Grooms (R) sponsored SB 300, which states: The State
Georgia’s Republican Governor, Nathan Deal, seems poised to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by strong-arming the legislature away from pushing a bill to withdraw completely from imposing Common Core education standards on the state’s schools and toward implementing
It is no accident that the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards is now president of the College Board. Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” education into the latest social justice iteration has hit a road block, and David
AUSTIN, TEXAS–David Coleman, president and CEO of the College Board, announced a partnership between the College Board and The Atlantic, the progressive periodical Wednesday at the SXSWedu 2014 conference. He said, “The Atlantic has a proud history as a home
AUSTIN, TEXAS–Every year, the education and technology communities converge in Austin for the SXSWedu conference. It is a four day series of speakers and seminars that their website calls “the platform for education’s most energetic and innovative leaders from all backgrounds
A panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday criticized the Common Core standards as a top-down, centralized system of government intervention that threatens state and local school autonomy, student privacy, and the continued expansion of more school options
States that want to opt out of the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) and/or the tests aligned to or based on its standards are being threatened by a toothless tiger that doesn’t want the states to know the tiger has
While much focus has recently been on the issues the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) are creating for public education, private faith-based schools stand to be affected negatively by the standards, as well. Although these private schools are not required
Pro-life leaders have noticed that not a single panel or specific speaker on life issues has been scheduled for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is supposed to be the preeminent annual gathering of conservatives in America. Pro-lifers note
Accompanying the rising speculation that Jeb Bush is weighing a run for president in 2016 comes the question of whether an establishment candidate like Bush can survive being an avid supporter of the Common Core academic standards. In an informal
“Does a school district using Common Core in any way to teach state standards violate the law?” That was the question asked by Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston), Chairman of the Senate Education Committee. The senator asked in a December 2013
A wealthy businessman with a strikingly liberal record is out to an early lead in the June 3 Iowa GOP senate primary. Former energy executive Mark Jacobs has expressed support for cap and trade, Common Core, the Ryan-Murray budget compromise,
The New York Assembly is set to pass a bill to postpone implementation of its Common Core rules chiefly because teachers objected to the standards being held against them during teacher evaluations. Another reason is concerns over student privacy. The
TEXAS–Concerned suburban Dallas dad Andrew Bennett spent the past three months raising questions about Common Core materials coming home from the Northwest Independent School District (NISD) middle school. Although Texas did not adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative, it
The Common Core-aligned practice field tests are coming to American public schools in April; but it is only in preparation for their official launch in Spring 2015. This year’s tests will not even be graded, according to the Smarter Balanced Assessment
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools states it is outraged at New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to limit school choice by “kicking out” four charter schools from their school buildings, leaving at least 700 children without
Immediately following a press conference by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA), during which the state’s largest teachers’ union said “implementation” of the Common Core standards had been “botched,” Connecticut state House Republicans announced they were able to force a public
The executive director of the Alabama Association of School Boards criticized recent proposed legislation to repeal the Common Core standards in her state, stating that repeal would be like going back to a “bag phone from an iPhone.” Sally Howell
Common Core developed such a bad name in Arizona that Governor Jan Brewer had to change the name of her program to get people to forget it was connected to the policy. Now a Senate panel in Arizona has voted
Mayday! Mayday! SOS! All nouns on deck! Man the semantics! Fire up the phrases! Don’t shoot till you see the whites of the “I’s”. You, over there, grab a round of idioms. Load up on similes and, if you do nothing
Common Core expert Dr. Sandra Stotsky told Connecticut grassroots activists against the Common Core standards that the latest “tactic” of their state legislature was to suppress debate about the standards by refusing to hear any bills whatsoever on Common Core.
In a Politico Magazine op-ed on Thursday, Republican strategist Rich Galen attempts to educate “the right” about why it should “love the Common Core.” From the get-go, Galen misses the boat on who doesn’t love the Common Core standards. Opponents
There is an important fight going on in our country today that is being under-reported by the media. Parents and activists are on the front lines every day fighting to save the quality of public education in this country; they
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; — Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet As Juliet reminds us, changing the name of something doesn’t change its nature. Yet, in an apparent
The nation’s largest teachers union still loves the untested, unproven Common Core standards, and will continue the narrative of Common Core supporters that it’s only the “rollout” or the “implementation” of the initiative that has been “botched.” In a letter
Apparently, taking former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s advice to “rebrand” the Common Core standards without repealing them, Louisiana lawmakers are considering how their state may keep Common Core in its schools while convincing parents and taxpayers that their math and