COMMON CORE - WISCONSIN GOING TO GIVE IT THE BOOT

Walker:  Repeal Common Core

http://watchdog.org/160165/scott-walker-common-core-education/?roi=echo3-21500525046-21173693-835cb5b21c6b4a118c06675fac665cd0

Watch Dog – M. D. Kittle – 7/17/2014

That was the response late Thursday from opponents of the controversial Common Core State Standards after Gov. Scott Walker announced he wants Wisconsin to do away with the nationalized education template.

Walker’s statement was short and direct.

“Today, I call on the members of the State Legislature to pass a bill in early January to repeal Common Core and replace it with standards set by people in Wisconsin,” the governor said.

READER COMMENT: 

Those supporters of Common Core claim that Common Core is a huge improvement over the previous standards. What they're really admitting is that they really didn't do anything to improve education in Wisconsin prior to Common Core. The new bill should include input from more than just the DPI. Get real educators, not just those involved in theory, and PARENTS and the broad community involved in formulating new standards. The DPI can no longer make decisions for hundreds of thousands of children and local taxpayers paying the bill. This process must be shared along with the decision. Tony Evers, by not involving the legislature in the very beginning, has demonstrated that he and his department cannot be trusted with this very important function.

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Governor Scott Walker- Page 23:

"As conservatives, we believe that as many decisions as possible should be pushed down to the local level.  This is not only a matter of efficiency, it is fundamental to our freedoms.  As Milton Friedman explains in Capitalism and Freedom,

"If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington.  If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community....If I do not like what my state does, I can move to another.  If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations."

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