Republican nominee Donald Trump says that, if elected president, he will make school choice the center of his education plan and will use $20 billion to establish a block grant to fund school choice for children living in low-income areas.
Teachers and administrators sang and danced to “Welcome Back Bay Shore Teachers” –- their own lyrics sung to the tune of “Summer Nights” from the musical Grease. It took jabs at Common Core.
Federal agents seized computers and other materials from Manuel Alfaro, former executive director of assessment design and development at the College Board. Alfaro had contacted government officials from seven states, making accusations his former employer lied about its tests in bids for state contracts.
“GOP Hispanics: The Week Ahead | Education” features RNC Hispanic Media Press Secretary Sofia Boza explaining Hillary Clinton’s plan to take more educational choices out of the hands of parents while she further empowers teachers unions and Washington bureaucrats who are her supporters.
The annual Education Next poll shows that public support for the Common Core State Standards has fallen to a record low.
“After much consideration, the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Marquette will not adapt or adopt the Common Core State Standards which were developed for the public school system,” announced Bishop John Doerfler in a statement.
In fact, however, the unpopular nationalized Common Core standards are what Hillary and Bill Clinton have been working toward for years.
Hundreds of exam questions from the College Board’s redesigned SAT college entrance exam have been leaked to Reuters, the news wire reports.
The Republican platform affirms the primary role of parents as educators in a child’s life, and supports a constitutional amendment to protect the right of parents to direct their children’s education from the overreach of federal and state governments and from potential international intruders such as the United Nations. It also upholds “parent-driven accountability at every stage of schooling,” and recognizes the value of local control of education.
The new framework comes in response to a 2011 California state law requiring the inclusion of LGBT history in the content of what students are taught in history and social studies classes.
In 2010, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) indicated they had gathered 26 and 32 member states, respectively. But, by the start of 2016, 38 states had left one or both consortia, reports pro-Common Core Education Next.
President Obama’s home state of Illinois is abandoning the Common Core-aligned PARCC test for high school students.
Louisiana parent activist and attorney Sara Wood describes former state lawmaker Brett Geymann as a “modern day Sam Adams” and “statesman” who will help steer Congress back to its rightful constitutional authority.
Sen. Lamar Alexander told U.S. Secretary of Education John King during a hearing in April that his proposal to regulate a requirement that federal education dollars supplement state and local spending rather than take their place violated the newly passed “bipartisan” Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
A teacher who was a contestant on Jeopardy Thursday made fun of the Common Core standards when a category bearing the name of the highly unpopular education standards appeared on the game’s board.
U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. explains that the just-released dismal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results need to be viewed in light of the seven years of “significant changes” in America’s classrooms due to the Common Core standards.
About 37 percent of U.S. 12th-graders are prepared for college-level coursework in mathematics and in reading, according to the 2015 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). That’s down from the 2013 assessments.
A pro-Common Core civil rights conference says the priorities of the “new majority” of black and Latino public school students are a more equitable distribution of funding for their schools and an atmosphere that is free of racial bias.
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says she has always supported national education standards and that she wants to see the same set of common standards for all public schools across the nation.
After celebrating the “bipartisan” passage of his new federal education law that replaced No Child Left Behind, Sen. Lamar Alexander says he has “disturbing evidence” that the newly confirmed U.S. Department of Education secretary is ignoring curbs on federal overreach in education Alexander says are in the new law.
The Common Core standards initiative is part of the progressive push to centralize education, says the Heritage Foundation in a new report – a compilation of essays by experts in education policy in the United States.
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm former New York State Commissioner of Education John B. King, Jr., as secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
The Senate will vote Monday, March 14, on the nomination of John B. King, Jr. to be the next U.S. Department of Education secretary.
Ted Cruz said that – if elected president – he would direct the U.S. Department of Education to end Common Core and, ultimately, he would abolish that department altogether.
John Kasich attempted to dismiss his prior condescending statements toward parents’ grassroots groups in his home state of Ohio when CNN debate moderator Jake Tapper asked him about his view of the Common Core standards. “You have called opposition to
Donald Trump said Thursday night that education has been “taken over by bureaucrats in Washington.”
Best-selling conservative author and senior editor for the Conservative Review Michelle Malkin slammed Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s support for Common Core standards, drawing loud boos from attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday directed at the governor.
Common Core supporter and talk radio host Bill Bennett tweeted that GOP candidate Donald Trump has reached out to him, likely for an opportunity to “talk education and drug policy.”
Common Core supporter Gov. John Kasich said during the GOP debate Thursday he’s a believer in local education, school choice, vouchers, and charter schools. Asked by moderator Megyn Kelly if the federal government should bail out the failed Detroit schools
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Ted Cruz spoke to a packed house at the Harris County Lincoln-Reagan dinner. There were more than 1,200 Republicans gathered to hear their fellow Houstonian.
Jeb Bush has quit the presidential race in defeat partly because he spurned the voters’ anger and worries about the one-size-fits-all Common Core education program, along with other problems, including large-scale immigration and political dynasties.
Governor Chris Christie told supporters that he would return to his home state to reassess his campaign before making a decision on whether to continue his presidential race.
An education activist parent tells Breitbart News she met in front of her home in New Hampshire with Hillary Clinton — who presented herself as a moderate who is for local control of education and supportive of homeschooling.
Former Arizona State Senator Kelli Ward picked up the endorsement of statewide officeholder Diane Douglas, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, in her bid to defeat Sen. John McCain in a Republican primary.
Jeb Bush said during the New Hampshire GOP debate the United States should “get back to being a Tenth Amendment country,” one that “respects the states to be able to make more decisions,” including in the area of education.
Parent activists who have been fighting the Common Core state standards have joined together to form a national group whose message is “Stop Fed Ed.”
Bloomberg News’ former top editor, Al Hunt, says GOP candidate Jeb Bush has been “savaged” by Washington-outsider Donald Trump.
During a town hall event Wednesday in Oskaloosa, Iowa, GOP 2016 contender Carly Fiorina said Republicans have been involved in creating education programs such as Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top that, ultimately, amount to “crony capitalism.”
A national conservative group intends to spend $1 million on ads in New Hampshire that refer to GOP 2016 contender Gov. John Kasich as an “Obama Republican.”
A former Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) executive reveals in a Project Veritas undercover investigation how textbook publishing giant Pearson Education won the $1.3 billion contract to put Common Core-curriculum-loaded iPads into the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), despite the fact that other publishers outpaced Pearson in their bids for the contract.
