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How a GOP Congress Quietly Imposed Common Core on the Entire Country

After a long absence, education policy has reclaimed a prominent role in the national and state campaign discourse. What’s more, parents — not a particular party or candidate — are…

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Tampa Bay Times: Common Core Sunk Bush

Even the mainstream media in Florida is acknowledging that Common Core is a poison pill of a political issue that helped bring down Jeb Bush’s chances to be president. The…

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Tampa Bay Times Examines Rubio’s Involvement in Common Core

Alex Leary of the Tampa Bay Times discussed Common Core’s role in the campaign of the two Florida presidential candidates, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. The article, titled “Rubio may…

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New Level of Overreach: Government Report Recommends Schools Conduct “Home Visits”

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, people hungered for a land of freedom and choice — a place where they could worship as they pleased, where…

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Six Reasons Jeb’s Plan Fails to End Federal Tyranny in Education

Former Florida Governor and presidential candidate Jeb Bush released his education plan on January 18th. In it, he tries hard to sound like he cares about and supports local control and…

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Why Ben Carson’s Plan Misses the Point on Education

Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson has released a five-point plan for education that says many of the right things but fails to aggressively attack the root of the education problem…

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Dear Moms and Dads: Big Brother Is About to Join the Family

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump are making noise against the Common Core and the Democrats’ support for it. But have they looked at the gift the GOP-controlled Congress…

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Cruz Vows to Undo Common Core on Day One

Cruz imagines a pretty busy first day in office: Cruz, a Texas U.S. senator running for the Republican nomination, said he would spend his first day in office undoing “illegal and…

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Cruz Stump Speech in Iowa: End Common Core, Abolish the Department of Ed

Marco Rubio is not the only one running against Common Core in his closing pitch to Iowans. In addition to a YouTube video, Ted Cruz is putting ending Common Core…

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Cruz Releases Video Slamming Common Core

Ted Cruz released a two-and-a-half minute YouTube video announcing a homeschooling coalition and slamming Common Core: “Some on the left want to shut down those who don’t abide by the…

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Former Obama Administration Aide Boasts GOP-Passed Bill (ESSA) Cements Common Core

Breitbart reports that another voice from the Left has entered the conversation about the recently rammed-through Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This time, the commentary comes from Peter Cunningham, former…

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Four Reasons Why Student Privacy Is in Grave Danger — Unless Congress Rejects This Bill

There is no rest for the weary. Congress continues to erode student privacy along with parental autonomy. In February, we warned of the bill to reauthorize the National Center for…

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Feds Threaten to Cut Aid If “Too Many” Students Opt Out of Common Core Tests

So that didn’t take long. Thanks to the Republican Congress, which just decided to pass a “reform” of No Child Left Behind that Obama applauded, the Obama administration has a…

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Speaker Ryan, No Head Fakes on ‘No Child Left Behind’ Please!

What does it take to make it clear that the American people are fed up? The Republican grassroots are in open revolt against the “establishment” presidential candidates. Speaker John Boehner…

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Dear Speaker Ryan: It’s Time to End ‘No Child Left Behind’

This post was co-authored by Jane Robbins, an attorney and senior fellow at the American Principles Project. To no one’s surprise, political elites have apparently crafted a bill (behind closed…

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Admit It: Common Core Is Lowering Students’ Academic Achievement

The country is in the midst of an education crash. The 2015 SAT scores were the lowest in a decade. And the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which tests…

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Big Brother Wants to Know Everything — Yes, Everything — About Your Kids

In our last episode, we found former federal education official Joanne Weiss admitting how the U.S. Department of Education (USED) coerced the states to sign up for the Common Core…

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Carson Wants to Put Washington in Charge of Monitoring University Bias?

Ben Carson just suggested on Glenn Beck’s show that the answer to the free speech police on college campuses is to put Washington D.C. and the Department of Education in…

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