Ten Common Core Promoters Laughing All The Way To The Bank

◼ The people who wrote and pushed Common Core on the nation are making bank while the nation’s kids, teachers, and parents writhe in the grip of their curriculum contraption. - The Federalist

...In fact, everywhere you look, people intimately involved with creating or pushing Common Core are making a lot of money despite having demonstrated exactly zero proven success at increasing student achievement. How convenient for them....

As chief of staff to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, (Joanne Weiss, Common Core’s Federal Donkey Driver) made $179,700 in base pay in 2012. While there, she directed the Race to the Top grants that weaseled 41 states into promising to adopt Common Core before it was written. In fact, as the Washington Post reported four years after the fact, Duncan had originally put Common Core directly into the grant requirements by name. For political reasons, they decided to be a little more deceptive in the final version and instead use a definition of what was acceptable so narrow that it to this day only includes Common Core. And Weiss’s own website says she “was responsible for designing the [Race to the Top] policy to maximize its impact” and “writing the regulations.” So it’s not a stretch to imagine she wrote that requirement with her own hand. At the very least, she was fully aware of and participated in the decision to do so.... KEEP READING

◼ Jane Robbins: Common Core and the Contents are not so Common. - EDUCATION REVIEWS/11/5/14
◼ PARENTS’ AND STUDENTS’ RIGHTS UNDER IDEA, STATE CODE, FERPA, COPPA - FIRE AND ICE
◼ A Student's Guide To: Nosy Questions -- That your school should not ask you - EAGLEFORUM.ORG