The Dept. of Education should be abolished and the funds returned to the states. Ordinarily I would say returned to the taxpayers but I have given up hope for that.
As always once the states sell their birthright for a mess of government pottage they are on the hook for good. IOW once you do it for money you will always be labeled a prostitute.
Heck, would parents in that state vote up that amount of money to give their children a real education vs a Bill Gates pile O’crap just as smelly as his software?
Of course they would and should.
Don’t forget Common Core was perped by this loser in an ill-directed effort to make up for the cra...er...Obamastuff he’s thrown over the septic tank edge during his career. And the result was just as poorly thought out as was his software.
Washington state lost its waiver for bowing to the teachers’ union and blocking teacher evaluations.
And when the government says it will not give Indiana 4 million in race to the top grants, Indiana should respond with, that is 4 million we are not paying in and using for our education system.
You can thank Abraham Ribicoff,Senator from Connecticut,for the Dept of Education,by the way it was instituted in 1977,so those of you who graduated before that you must be dolts,how did you do that anyway without all the bureaucrats in Washington running it?
Wapo is not a newspaper, it is birdcage liner. This foul propaganda stinks up the whole place.
In fact, the Supreme Court has clarified that powers not expressly delegated to the federal government via the Constitution are prohibited.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Further proof that we are no longer a nation of free citizens, but rather a nation of subjects, kowtowing to the elitists who have hoodwinked enough of the active electorate to keep themselves in power, at the expense of our right to be free of an oppressive yoke of fedgov.
The tree of liberty is drought-stricken.
Isn’t this kinda like bullying? I thought that was a hate crime...
Damn racist government. They hate Hoosiers.
Here in Colorado the Common Core Communists are running ads on TV claiming Common Core is “voluntary” and that the federal Dept of Ed “does not require it”, and that it is accepted by Colorado because it is good.
Most states that have decided to “pull the plug” on common core have simply kept the same curriculum but renamed it. Indiana a prime example.
Staes should not have to depend on paybacks from the feds for education. The feds have no business being involved in the education business in the first place. I’ve always thought that perhaps taxes should go to local level first,the state,& lastly to the feds. Seems like this might be a better way to go. It should eliminate a bunch of wasteful federal spending.
We’re Hoosiers. We switched to homeschooling this year. Best decision for our kids that we have ever made. Yeah, I gave up a lot of my career, but the kids are worth it. It goes way beyond Common Core.
Indiana didn’t really get rid of Common Core, anyway. Indiana kept most of the Common Core standards, and with the way textbooks are produced they’ll have to use textbooks that are Common Core aligned (who’s going to produce textbooks just for Indiana?).