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Posted on 09/07/2015 6:52:50 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
If you live in Wisconsin or any state that supports "local control" of schools, here is some exciting news. School districts that replace Common Core Standards with a different set of standards are entitled to receive state and federal funding. The process is simple. It is time to stop complaining and take some action. Become a voice for the children.
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Those states that are not local control states have the right to reject Common Core Standards and replace them with a preferable set of standards according to Article 10 in the U.S. Constitution and to three federal statutes: The General Education Provision Act, the Department of Education Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...
Good information.
The school boards and the Principal will be hearing about this.
Thank you WhiskeyX.
Also, se Karen Schroeder’s additional comments at:
Note how Indiana has already replaced Common Core with its own curriculum standards:
Indiana Approves Common Core Replacement Standards
AP By SUMMER BALLENTINE Apr. 28, 2014 9:15 PM EDT
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/indiana-approves-common-core-replacement-standards
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Indiana Replaces Common Core ... With Common Core
Written by Alex Newman
Celebrations by parents, teachers, and taxpayers across the political spectrum over the purported death of Common Core in Indiana may have been premature. When legions of outraged Hoosiers forced lawmakers to pass legislation dropping the Obama administration-pushed nationalization of K-12 education, which Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed on Monday, they thought that would be the end of the deeply controversial standards. However, now that drafts of Indiana’s “new” standards have emerged, it is clear that they were largely copied and pasted from the scandal-plagued Common Core.
Despite the new law supposedly aimed at stopping Common Core in Indiana[...]what is happening is tantamount to “grand deception.”
SC education panel approves Common Core replacement
By Allie Gross | March 10, 2015
http://www.educationdive.com/news/sc-education-panel-approves-common-core-replacement/372591/
They need to replace all the textbooks from Pearson publishing, too! Propagandized history at it’s worst!
‘New’ South Carolina Standards 90% Aligned With Common Core
Despite media reports that the Common Core standards are “dead” in South Carolina, grassroots parent activists charge that the controversial nationalized standards are “alive and well and we are kicking and screaming.”
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“The media reports are dead wrong,” Sheri Few, president of South Carolina Parents Involved in Education (SCPIE), told Breitbart News. “By the state Education Oversight Committee’s (EOC) own admission, the ‘new’ replacement standards are 90 percent aligned with Common Core.”
Tennessee Common Core Replacement Bills Filed
November 18, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart
FAQ about the Common Core Standards
Authored By: South Carolina Department of Education
Frequently Asked Questions
1) Will the Common Core State Standards end in South Carolina?
Yes! The Common Core will be in South Carolina schools only for the 2014-15 school year.
2) What happens in the 2015-16 school year?
We have started the process to replace the Common Core with new standards that will be in our schools in the 2015-16 school year. These will be high-level, college and career ready standards.
3) Are we going to keep the Common Core in place but call them something else?
No! We are not going to rebrand, repackage, or rename the Common Core. We are going to develop new, high-level standards, appropriate for the people of South Carolina.
4) Why do we need standards that are college and career ready?
South Carolina has a waiver from the onerous provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, as do most states. We must adopt college and career ready standards to maintain our waiver.
Many people in higher education and the business community are concerned about the college and career readiness levels of graduating high school students. By working together to develop college and career ready standards, we can ensure that our students have a bright future, whether they decide to join the military, enter the workforce, go to a four-year college, or earn a technical degree or certification.
5) How do we replace the Common Core?
We received a record 365 nominations from expert English and Math teachers to serve on the review and writing teams. We established a rubric to apply evenly across the board in examining the credentials of all 345 educators, to ensure a fair process was in place to select the final teams. Those teams will meet in the Midlands beginning this summer through the fall. Please read the second memorandum below, which highlights the criteria needed for expert educators to serve.
6) Will the public be able to provide input?
Yes! You will have the opportunity to submit comments in the fall.
7) If we don’t have the Common Core, what will we have instead?
We will develop high-level college and career ready standards that we can truly be proud of in South Carolina.
8) Which states do not have the Common Core?
Alaska, Nebraska, Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Texas all have college and career ready standards, but specifically rejected the Common Core. Minnesota has its own math standards, but did adopt Common Core English standards. While some of these states developed new standards, others based their standards on the Common Core. Our review and writing teams will examine the standards of all these states and conduct a careful review. However, we will not consider Alaska’s standards since they are too closely aligned to the Common Core. We will simultaneously review our 2007-08 English and math standards as well.
9) What started this process to end the Common Core?
Act 200 passed by the South Carolina General Assembly ends the Common Core in our state and requires the State Department of Education to develop new standards for the 2015-16 school year. The law requires the review of our current standards to begin no later than January 1, 2015. To give educators enough time to assist us in developing new standards, and for professional development afterwards, we started the review process in June 2014. The more time we have in this process is critical, since we’re developing new standards.
10) Doesn’t the law require the next State Superintendent of Education to develop the new standards?
No. The law only states that the standards review must begin no later than January 1, 2015. The next State Superintendent of Education would not be sworn in until the middle of January 2015. The legislative intent behind the law was to establish a timeframe for when the standards review would start, not by whom. The earlier the State Department initiated this review, the more time we have to work with educators to develop high-level, college and career ready standards.
11) What happens if South Carolina does not develop new standards but just puts a new name on the Common Core?
Under Act 200, if the State Department proposes using the Common Core standards, the General Assembly has the power to disapprove the standards. If we reused the Common Core, we could end up right back where we are today in the summer of 2015, developing new standards. If that happened, it would create enormous uncertainty in our schools and for our teachers.
However, the General Assembly will not be involved in the approval process if the State Department develops new standards. Therefore, we are focusing on developing high-level, quality standards for English and math this summer that will meet the U.S. Department of Education’s definitions of college and career readiness. Once these new standards are developed, they will be submitted through the normal process to the South Carolina Board of Education and Education Oversight Committee.
12) Will teachers have input into developing the new standards?
Yes! Our teachers seek to impart the highest levels of knowledge to their students. We asked educators who are experts in the fields of English and Math to be nominated for the review and writing teams for the new standards. A record 365 nominations were received. Teachers who are not on these teams can still offer their input during the public comment period or through their principal and school district superintendent.
See an overview of the writing teams by grade level, content area, and personnel classification here.
13) Will parents and members of the business community have input as well?
Yes! Current law requires the State Department of Education to convene a task force of “parents, business and industry persons” along with community leaders to examine the new standards. The law says:
SECTION 59-18-350. Cyclical review of state standards and assessments; analysis of assessment results.
As a part of the review, a task force of parents, business and industry persons, community leaders, and educators, to include special education teachers, shall examine the standards and assessment system to determine rigor and relevancy.
Parents, business, and community leaders will play an important role in examining our new standards to ensure they are college and career ready. It is vital that parents of all backgrounds have an opportunity to participate, either through the taskforce or during the public review/comment period.
The nomination process to form this important taskforce is now closed. The deadline to apply was Friday, July 18 at 5:00 p.m.
Link: ed.sc.gov
Missouri Legislature Passes Common Core Replacement Bill
May 15, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/missouri-legislature-passes-common-core-replacement-bill/
Education is a state/local matter.
“Education is a state/local matter.”
By all rights it should be a family-local matter only.
Was it ever true that Common Core affected only two subjects; Social Science and Math?
Will one year of Common Core confusion be a set back for those students who are now switched to the college prep track in highschool course work? These students served as guinea pigs, right, so what will be the fall out for them?
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If only Reagan could have kept his campaign promise of abolishing the Federal Department of Education all this could have been avoided.
The GOPe has always been a corrupt group.
arg...it was done with “No child left behind”.
You could opt out and keep the money.
are we friggin nuts ?
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