Filed in Common
Core State Standards by Shane Vander
Hart on April 12, 2013 • 3 CommentsUpdate: Below is the
final approved resolution:
RESOLUTION CONCERNING COMMON CORE EDUCATION STANDARDS
WHEREAS, the Common
Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of academic standards, promoted and supported by two private
membership organizations, the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and the
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a method for
conforming American students to uniform (“one size fits all”) achievement goals
to make them more competitive in a global marketplace, (1.) and
WHEREAS, the NGA and
the CCSSO, received tens of millions of dollars from private third parties
to advocate for and develop the CCSS strategy, subsequently created the CCSS
through a process that was not subject to any freedom of information acts or
other sunshine laws, and never piloted the CCSS, and
WHEREAS, even though
Federal Law prohibits the federalizing of curriculum (2.), the Obama
Administration accepted the CCSS plan and used 2009 Stimulus Bill money to
reward the states that were most committed to the president’s CCSS agenda; but,
they failed to give states, their legislatures and their citizens time to
evaluate the CCSS before having to commit to them, and
WHEREAS, the NGA and
CCSSO in concert with the same corporations developing the CCSS ‘assessments’
have created new textbooks, digital media and other teaching materials aligned
to the standards which must be purchased and adopted by local school districts
in order that students may effectively compete on CCSS ‘assessments’, and
WHEREAS, the CCSS
program includes federally funded testing and the collection and sharing of
massive amounts of personal student and teacher data, and
WHEREAS, the CCSS
effectively removes educational choice and competition since all schools and
all districts must use Common Core ‘assessments’ based on the Common Core
standards to allow all students to advance in the school system and to advance
to higher education pursuits; therefore be it
RESOLVED, the
Republican National Committee, as stated in the 2012 Republican Party Platform,
“do not believe in a one size fits all approach to education and support
providing broad education choices to parents and children at the State and
local level,” (p35)(3.), which is best based on a free market approach to
education for students to achieve individual excellence; and, be it further
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee
recognizes the CCSS for what it is– an inappropriate overreach to standardize
and control the education of our children so they will conform to a
preconceived “normal,” and, be it further
RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee
rejects the collection of personal student data for any non-educational
purpose without the prior written consent of an adult student or a
child student’s parent and that it rejects the sharing of such personal data,
without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child student’s
parent, with any person or entity other than schools or education agencies
within the state, and be it finally
RESOLVED, the 2012 Republican Party Platform
specifically states the need to repeal the numerous federal regulations which
interfere with State and local control of public schools, (p36) (3.);
and therefore, the Republican National Committee rejects this CCSS plan
which creates and fits the country with a nationwide straitjacket on academic
freedom and achievement.
References:
2. Federal Law 20 USC
1232a-Sec. 1232a. and The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Pub.L.
89-10, 79 Stat. 27, 20 US.C. ch. 70.
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