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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.

Conservative leaders are frustrated with Gov. Scott Walker’s lack of commitment to full repeal of the Common Core standards. Here’s a full review of his tenure, and the steps he’s taken during those years.

Slowly we’ve witnessed an erosion of local control in public education across this country, though it hasn’t been as obvious since the Obama administration began the latest reform dubbed “Common Core.”

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) unveiled a plan Wednesday that purports to eliminate the Common Core standards from his state.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have already been paid to corporations like Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic, and Apple since 2012 in contracts related to the controversial Common Core standards.

House Republicans have withdrawn a controversial bill that would have reauthorized the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law after both conservatives and liberals came out against it.

On Thursday, Gov. Chris Christie admitted he adopted Common Core standards because his state needed the federal funds in exchange for signing onto the unpopular education reform.

As expected, President Obama is threatening to veto a House Republican bill that would reform the No Child Left Behind law.

The Colorado GOP is seeking to reverse its stance on the controversial nationalized education initiative.

The Montana House endorsed a bill on Saturday to repeal the Common Core standards by a vote of 55-45. All but four Republicans voted for the measure and all 41 Democrats opposed it.

When Congress reauthorizes No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the law should allow states to “align” education with the needs of businesses in order to bolster workforce development, according to The National Governors Association (NGA).

Will the Republican-controlled Congress renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act’s (ESEA) and permanently lock states into federal control of education?

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) told a crowd in West Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday that he has “grave concerns” about the Common Core standards and the way the initiative has been implemented.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is fast becoming one of the most vocal enemies of the Common Core standards. A potential 2016 presidential candidate, Jindal slammed the controversial education initiative during a speech in Washington, D.C., Thursday, asserting that the standards were created by “the elite in D.C.,” who “think they know better than we do.”

As Republicans of all stripes and the main-stream media are predicting that Jeb Bush’s support for the Common Core standards will be among his greatest obstacles to a potential 2016 GOP nomination, Bush himself went off-script during remarks at the Detroit Economic Club Wednesday, emotionally defending the highly unpopular education initiative and his own education reform record.

A Fox News debate on the Common Core proves misleading, not illuminating, for conservative voters.

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) introduced a bill Friday that would block federal intrusion on the rights of states to make education decisions. The measure purports to block the Obama Administration from coercing states to adopt the federally funded Common Core standards.

Mississippi State Sen. Angela Hill (R) says Republicans in her state are “ready to fight” to repeal the Common Core standards, but challenges the now Republican-led Congress to acknowledge that the controversial education reform initiative has been an overreach by the federal government from the get-go.