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News Item September 2011 |
Given the financial incentives from the federal government, it was not surprising that the majority of states, many of which were cash-strapped, adopted the
Common Core Standards. Now that many of those incentives have fallen through and the states have had time to digest the implications of the standards, there
appears to be a counter-move to abandon them.
Several states, including New Hampshire, South Carolina, Minnesota, and South Dakota, are considering legislation that would modify the impact of the standards and return control of education back to the states. Texas – one of the states that never adopted the federal standards – is considering legislation that would ensure that national standards could never be adopted. 113 Words |
