AP PHOTO/ KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AMY WALLOT
THE
CORE
month, FreedomWorks posted an
action plan to fight against the
standards, a campaign that will
culminate with a march on Washington, D.C., this summer. The
American Principles Project plans
to spend at least $500,000 on the
cause, Politico reported.
Meanwhile, proponents of the
Core also face grounded concerns
from academics, parents and
some left-wing politicians about
the true rigor of the standards
and the limits they could place on
higher-performing students.
New attention to the Common
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Core is admittedly overdue, and
the vitriol perhaps inevitable. In
a sense, the initiative was conceived in a political vacuum: The
standards were quietly drafted
and implemented over the last
five years by a relatively small
group of experts and officials
around the country and with limited public input. This meant the
process went fairly smoothly —
initially, creators were able to secure the backing of 48 governors,
from red and blue states alike.
But in the three years since
states