Tea party groups protest
Common Core standards outside governors meeting
JS Online – Patrick Simonaitis
– 8/2/2013
Members of two tea party
groups formed a small protest outside of the National Governors Association
summer meeting Friday, gathering across the street from the Wisconsin Center while the nation’s governors
were convened inside.
Seven or so individuals,
some of whom were wearing red shirts that read “Stop Common Core” and holding
signs, denounced the standards that are being implemented in schools across the
state.
“I call on Governor Scott
Walker and the nation’s governors to rescind their participation and support of
the Common Core,” said Ed Perkins, the leader of the Fox Valley Initiative,
a conservative group which advocates for limited government.
The gathering was organized
by Ken Van Doren, the education director of the Wisconsin
Campaign for Liberty, a local branch of the national tea party group Campaign
for Liberty.
Van Doren outlined the
reasons the group opposes the Common Core standards, which have been seeing
similar conservative backlash from groups across the nation. The group
sent a letter of opposition to the Common Core to the governors
of all 50 states Friday morning, including Walker.
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