You need the administration, superintendent especially, to want to eliminate common core and the funding that goes with it. It has been my experience that school boards are really just there to rubber stamp what the administrators decide. The members who try to make a difference by going against the superintendent are shut out and marginalized. All information you receive is filtered through the superintendent. If he doesn’t want you to know or take action on something, it will never be on the agenda.
Good luck.
jsanders in post #6 has the best advice I’ve seen so far.
I’ll add a couple of points. Look up and understand the difference between Common Core standards, not all that bad from what little I know, and the methods used to teach it.
It’s not the standards that are the problem, but the methods in use. A dozen steps to do a simple addition of two numbers...especially focus on the Islamic indoctrination going on.
Look into school voucher systems where any individual can send their kids to a school of their choice and their voucher directs public funding to that school. This has been tried and found to work pretty well in a couple of places, and in Florida the teachers union shut it down by lawsuit a few years ago. They’re trying it again though. It’s being tried in other states too, with good results. Look it up.
(I’m not providing references, I want you to do the research yourself so you’ll learn from all the work you have to put into it, I’m not handing it to you on a silver platter by looking it up for you.)
The idea is to get some competition going. Nothing improves the performance of schools like having to compete to get funding. Liberals and teacher’s unions will fight it, look up reliable info to back you up. Print it out and learn it.
Educate the parents. Do a lot of research and find out the facts, relay those facts to parents and try to get them up off their lazy asses and help. Do some printing so you can hand them printed info that you can back up. Include references.
Good luck, it’s going to be an uphill struggle. Your biggest problem is probably going to be getting parents to grow a backbone and stand up for themselves. Start educating them, once they know the facts and start showing up at school board meetings ready to bring this to the table and keep it there, you may make some progress. Also tell them to be prepared for some backlash. Liberals will use disinformation, shaming and Political Correctness to try to shut them up. Again, have facts ready.
In other words, school yourself. Learn all you can about it, make sure you know the facts and have them ready at all times. In a heated debate you won’t have time to shuffle through 30 pages of printed info to dig up one statistic. Know your stuff before you walk in the door.
Alternatively, get a few like minded people to join the school board with you. In our area, opposition to a $100 million High School that most citizens opposed took 5 like-minded people, running for school board as a team, sharing the advertising and campaign costs, and winning a majority of seats on the board. They voted to cancel the proposed plan (even though they lost money on a bond guarantee), that the school the administrator wanted. They started over, developing a plan the taxpayers wanted, and won a bond referendum they needed to start construction.
The old board, when they held the required public meeting on budgets, sat on the stage, chatting with each other and passing candy around, while close to 200 citizens spoke in opposition it, but the team approach was the only one that worked to get rid of them.