Started under the accursed W and no child left behind.
You are right. I picked wrong headline.
“Although they only recently captured national attention, the Common Core standards – which lay out what students should know and be able to do by each grade – have been in the works since at least 2008. It all started with former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who was the 2006-07 chair of the National Governors Association”
W made the mistake of reaching across the aisle to Teddy Kennedy to sponsor the bill. Of course an education bill sponsored by a Democrat would have anything but improved education as its goal. And Democrats will stab anyone in the back who tries for bipartisan cooperation.