MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Dozens of conservatives and leaders of tea party groups from across Wisconsin sent Gov. Scott Walker a letter Tuesday urging him to “be the hero” and reject Common Core education standards.The letter signed by 61 people came after Assembly Republicans who studied the standards indicated last week that they were not interested in abandoning them. The voluntary standards, covering English and math currently used by 45 states, were adopted in Wisconsin in 2010.The goal of the standards, which backers say has been achieved, was to improve instruction and better prepare students for life after school. But critics, many of them conservative Republicans, say the standards are too weak, result in too much data collection about students and amount to the federal government creating a national curriculum.
stupidity and ignorance fear and reject education as do the republicans, look at the state and who is pushing to keep the dumb down in their schools.
another not thought out is that those same people when they find out they have been played cling to their guns and bibles too. once again they beat down a plan that they have noting to replace it.
so do WI kids just run around they playground till they all fall down, burn the books already fired the teachers.
The Republican National Committee in April adopted a resolution calling the standards an inappropriate overreach. Movements to slow the standards down began in nearly a dozen states this year.Walker's spokesman Tom Evenson released a statement reiterating Walker's past comments that Wisconsin should set higher, state-specific standards. But Walker has not said what specifically he would want to do or change, nor has he committed to rescinding the standards already in place, as the tea party groups want.
politicians are suppose to fix programs not vilify them, when the rhetoric does not match the in action you are not there to help the people and that state you are there to privatize for the billionaire benefactors.
