Blog IT’S OFFICIAL: THE FEDS CONTROL COMMON CORE Share This Post Education / Government IT’S OFFICIAL: THE FEDS CONTROL COMMON CORE By redkudzu_admin on April 3rd 2013 No Comments / 162 views By Casey Given Critics of the Common Core State Standards had our fears confirmed on Monday when Education Week reported that the Department of Education will oversee the assessment test design for the new national standards. This is no April Fool’s joke: Washington will soon be directly regulating what America’s schoolchildren learn and on what they are tested. This massive expansion of federal power is concerning considering the federal government’s failed history of intervening in public education. As I recently explained in AFP Foundation’s school choice policy report, the federal government has had its meddling hands in America’s public schools for decades. From the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to No Child Left Behind today, Congress has provided Title I federal funding to schools with low-income student bodies for the past half-century. But, this money is by no means free. As is often the case with federal funds, Title I comes with strings attached – which explains how Washington has been such a major player in American education despite the fact that public schools are function of the states. Read more… Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Login with: Continue with Facebook Continue with Google Continue with Twitter Common Core Share This Post redkudzu_admin The goal of this site is to give information. Whether from national sites or locally in Georgia. Related Articles Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business February 23rd 2011 “Parents, you need to question these people!:” Shock video of dad arrested at school meeting after challenging Common Core; Update: Charges dropped September 20th 2013 Mike Buck saying we are getting Common Core from Germany. Kitty Werthmann, confirming it is what Hitler established. June 14th 2014