[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article):"..its approved ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act/[No Child Left Behind])"

By dumping the FED motivated [No Child Left Behind])CommonCore program
I believe they have " dumped the chump " FED monies
for a move to ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE over Common Core mediocrity (lowering expectations).

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Common Core mediocrity (lowering expectations)
is Communist concept for "leveling the field"
and plowing under/ burying the field opposition .
and thinking everything in education is much improved