Are Common Core standards the next GOP battleground?
By Andrea Zelinski, City Paper, July 7, 2013- .....
Conservatives on the far right are vocal with their worry that the
government is trying to nationalize education, glean private information
from students’ standardized tests, and then stick taxpayers with the
bill.
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At the state level, leaders including Gov. Bill Haslam point out the
state has “come out pretty strong” in support of the Common Core, and he
plans to keep it that way.
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“We are developing an army, and we have over 700 people on it now who
can mobilize when we need to put pressure on our legislators,” said
Katherine Hudgins, a chief organizer for Tennessee Against Common Core
and a political activist for the 9/12 Project and an officer with the
Rutherford County Tea Party. “We will join forces with anybody of any
stripe that has the same political concern.”
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