LOS ANGELES — Half of the students in their junior year at four affluent high schools in California–Gunn, Palo Alto, Palos Verdes and Calabasas–have chosen to ignore the Smarter Balanced Assessments, the tests based on Common Core that premiere at California high schools this spring.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker came out fighting for school vouchers Monday at a national conference of education reform advocates, where Walker said vouchers are a “moral and economic imperative.”
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host Matthew Boyle and co-host Raheem Kassam will be discussing the most important news stories of the week. The show will focus on the latest developments in the 2016 presidential campaign, the Obamatrade deal and the bombshell allegations from Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer’s new book, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.
Louisiana lawmakers and parents who oppose Common Core are supporting a plan they say would ultimately rid the state of the controversial education initiative. However, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has “concerns” about the legislation.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced a bill Thursday that would return control of student education records back to parents and their children.
Jeb Bush hints he’s running for president in 2016, but where, exactly, is he running? The former Florida governor will skip the Iowa Straw Poll this summer, perhaps because of his unpopular view on Common Core standards.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz appeared on Fox News’s “The Kelly File,” where he was asked by host Megyn Kelly to discuss her recent interview with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is expected to announce that he will be running for president in the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
On Tuesday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” former Florida Governor and prospective GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush declared that if states don’t like Common Core “they should implement higher standards.” Jeb said that he would support national school vouchers and “There are
The obvious question is: If Bush believes education should be decided at the state-level, why does he insist other states do what he did as Florida’s governor?
Appearing on Fox News’ The Kelly File on Monday night, 2016 prospective presidential candidate and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush explained that he would not try to undo President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
GOP 2016 candidate Mike Huckabee’s photo appears among a list of political, education and business leaders who support the Common Core standards in a book provided to state lawmakers by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.
Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) of New Hampshire has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited the state’s Department of Education and the State Board of Education from implementing the Common Core standards in any school or school district in the state.
In an internal memo dated April 29, 2015, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced the California Department of Education (CDE) was dropping the “Common Core” name, but keeping the Common Core system.
With hundreds of thousands of parents refusing the Common Core-aligned tests for their children, Wall Street Journal contributor Jason Riley says the “soccer mom” opt-out movement has the momentum and is determined to win its fight.
Colleges in six states will use the Smarter Balanced Common Core-aligned test for placement to determine that students are “college-ready” and do not need to take remedial classes, but a former U.S. Education Department official told Breitbart News the decision to use the test was forced on the colleges by their state legislatures.
Despite the April 21 threat uttered by U.S Secretary of Education at the Education Writers Association meetings in Chicago that the federal government would “step in” if states did not make sure their students took tests aligned with Common Core Standards, students around the country are skipping the tests, and now more than half of students at Palos Verdes High School have opted out of taking the tests.
As parents of thousands of students across the nation are refusing the standardized tests aligned with the Common Core standards, state education officials are digging in their heels and attempting to use authority and, in some cases, intimidation to keep test participation rates up and parents in line.
A “global education” workshop for high school students given by a Boston University group and reportedly compliant with the Common Core standards encourages Jewish students to empathize with Hamas and teaches that the United States’ use of military drones is terrorism.
Louisiana grassroots activists tell Breitbart News they warned a member of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s team last week that his name was listed on a pro-Common Core PAC’s website as a supporter of the “Unicorns Are Not Real” campaign, an effort to ridicule opponents of the controversial standards.
Likely 2016 contender Mike Huckabee says the pro-Common Core PAC Alliance for Better Classrooms has used his name without permission to promote its “Unicorns Are Not Real” campaign.
A group of Common Core supporters resorting to mocking parents and other opponents of the boondoggle education initiative is studded with likely GOP presidential candidates, establishment Republican governors, top corporations, and the primary private funder of Common Core himself–Bill Gates.
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) addressed the New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit on Saturday. Currently considering joining the 2016 presidential race, Jindal shared what the American Dream has meant for his family, especially how education created opportunities.
As parents have continued to opt their children out of the testing aligned with the Common Core standards by the thousands in some states, in others, the testing has been halted entirely due to numerous technological glitches, leaving some state education officials worried their federal funding could be at stake as a result of low participation rates in the mandated tests.
America is “engaged in a global competition” for investment and talent, Marco Rubio says, and is being held back by regulations that are crushing innovation, an excessive corporate tax rate, businesses that are not growing because of Obamacare, and energy policies that are blocking us from using our natural resources.
Louis C.K.’s Twitter account suddenly disappeared in November last year.
In Iowa Tuesday, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton set out a “new vision” for education in America which includes support for the Common Core standards, a position that puts her at odds with the nation’s teachers’ unions and has her siding with big government establishment Democrats who support teacher evaluations based on student performance on Common Core-aligned tests.
In a review of Hillary Clinton’s stand on top issues in the nation, PBS reported that Clinton’s position on the Common Core standards is “unknown.”
A grassroots group of parents in South Carolina has organized a campaign to allow children to opt out of Common Core-aligned tests in the wake of a unanimous vote by the state’s Board of Education to replace the standards with “new” standards that are 90 percent aligned with Common Core.
Since its alignment with the controversial Common Core standards, the General Educational Development (GED) test has lost its swagger as the dominant high school equivalency measure.
It is becoming increasingly clearer that the main groups oppressing parents, local school boards, and local teacher unions with Common Core-based standards and tests (regardless of what they are actually called) are state boards of education and state departments of education.
New Hampshire State Rep. Mel Myler (D) complained to the state House Education Committee Tuesday that he was “tired of receiving emails that are misinformed, that have wrong information in them” from parents and his constituents opposed to Common Core.
GOP establishment governors wedded to both Chamber of Commerce dictates and Obama administration federal incentives are signing legislation that promises to keep much of the Common Core standards and their associated testing in place.
The Arizona Senate rejected a bill Monday that would have abolished the controversial Common Core standards in that state.
Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) defended Common Core and his state’s Medicaid expansion while touting other parts of his record as governor on Tuesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Kasich mostly discussed his broader record as a governor and member of Congress,
Though Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona ran as a candidate opposed to the Common Core standards in 2014, he claims a bill that would abolish the controversial initiative in his state is not “necessary” and wants, instead, to “fix” the standards.
A grassroots group of education activists in North Carolina has created an alternative to what they call the “failed Common Core standards.” According to team leader Jerry Egolf of the North Carolina Academic Freedom Alliance, the North Carolina Plan is
Despite threats from some school officials, more parents are opting to take their children out of the online tests associated with the Common Core standards that have been created by two federally funded interstate consortia.
Potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush has made it clear that he will continue his support for the controversial Common Core standards initiative, despite the fact that the conservative base of the GOP is overwhelmingly opposed to it. His education foundation, in fact, is offering online courses for policy-makers focusing on how to promote the idea that the standards are necessary for national security, why data collection is essential, and how to win over parents, teachers, and citizens in the education reform conversation.
The U.S. Senate passed an amendment Thursday that bans the federal government from coercing or incentivizing states to adopt specific academic standards, curriculum, or assessments, including those associated with the controversial Common Core standards.
Two new studies suggest that any positive impact from the Common Core standards on students’ academic progress may either be negligible or indeterminable for years to come.