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Common Core State Standards is an "Implementation" Voluntary! Within two months of release on June 2, 2010; 28 states promised to implement the standards by fall 2013 and replace current state assessments with tests aligned to Common Core by 2014–15 school year. States agreed to begin collecting student data from preschool through workforce, an element NGA considered essential. By the end of 2010, 41 states and the District of Columbia agreed to implement Common Core. 2011 Five more states, four territories, and Department of Defense Education Activity adopted Common Core Beck calls the standards a stealth “leftist indoctrination” - http://www.glennbeck.com/publish/uploads/2013/04/Common-Core-Facts-and-Response-to-NRO.pdf State Adoptions of Common Standards Steam head Little Opposition or Fanfare Accompanies $4 billion federal Race to the Top contest Endorsements By Catherine Gewertz - http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/07/09/36standards.h29.html?tkn=XNNF2imNWEvAYjpM0dDfzatcNBPivzfXOHgN&cmp=clp-edweek (Florida board of education discussed common standards June 15, 2012 meeting, its next gathering will be Sept. 21, 2012 it set up July 27,2012 conference call to adopt common standards, according state education department spokeswoman) Council of Chief State School Officers Financial Statements Years Ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 - http://www.ccsso.org/Documents/2010/financials/CCSSO_financial_statements_FY2010.pdf Achieve & The American Diploma Project Network - http://www.achieve.org/files/About%20AchieveADP-Apr2012.pdf Summary: The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers - summary white paper authored by Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, two former counsels general to the USDOE. Despite three federal laws that prohibit federal government from directing, supervising or controlling elementary and secondary school curricula, programs of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum. - http://pioneerinstitute.org/download/summary-the-road-to-a-national-curriculum-the-legal-aspects-of-the-common-core-standards-race-to-the-top-and-conditional-waivers The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers - http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/the-road-to-a-national-curriculum-the-legal-aspects-of-the-common-core-standards-race-to-the-top-and-conditional-waivers Is The U.S. Dept. of Education Violating Federal Law by Directing Standards, Tests & Curricula? http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/is-the-u-s-dept-of-education-violating-federal-law-by-directing-standards-tests-curricula/ Controlling Education from the Top: Why Common Core Is Bad for America - http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/Controlling-Education-From-the-Top%5B1%5D.pdf The Alignment of Common Core and ACT’s College and Career Readiness System - http://www.act.org/commoncore/pdf/CommonCoreAlignment.pdf |
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