Accuracy in Media

An Ohio dad was so frustrated with Common Core math that he wrote a mock check to the local elementary school and used Common Core math logic. It became ‘viral’ and made the national news cycle.

At a New Hampshire education summit hosted by former CNN anchor Campbell Brown, a school choice advocate, GOP candidates discussed education policy and both John Kasich and Jeb Bush distanced themselves from their support of Common Core.

Good take by the Washington Examiner on GOP hopeful John Kasich’s lie on Common Core.

This amendment, as the Washington Examiner reported, will allow states to opt out of the top-down federally-mandated curriculum without a penalty.

He may throw his hat in the ring for the GOP, but there has been some pushback in his own state due to Common Core and Medicaid expansion.

Pence lauds his legislative achievements, but conveniently glances over his Common Core-Lite education curriculum and how he expanded Medicaid.

Both Mississippi and Wisconsin are now opting out of the controversial Common Core standards, which is a federal, top-down education curriculum that has received significant pushback from parents across the U.S. 19 states have withdrawn or paused implementation of the standards, with 4 completely withdrawing from it altogether (Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina).

Also included are pro-school choice initiatives to help parents and their children find the best schools to get an education.

Sounds like top-down government planning + crony capitalism to us, and that’s never a good thing. Good read by Joy Pullman at The Federalist.