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I wonder what key U.S. Senators and key U.S. Representatives received in exchange for their support of Common Core ...... and what heads of the National Governors Association (NGA).... and key people within The Council of Chief State School Officers received as well.

Astounding how quickly incredibly superior K-12 curriculums were replaced by Common Core curriculum. Writing new guidelines/ instructions for class room teachers was done over a summer by county staff ... they were barely 2 weeks ahead of the teachers needing the guidance for actual instruction that school year apparently.

The tying of hundreds of millions of dollars federal funds to States to the approval of Common Core made approval by the respective State Boards of Education or other authorizing bodies a very quick process apparently.

from wikipedia .......... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core .... "The standards are copyrighted by NGA Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the CCSSO, which controls use of and licenses the standards.[9] The NGA Center and CCSSO do this by offering a public license which is used by State Departments of Education.[10] The license states that use of the standards must be "in support" of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. It also requires attribution and a copyright notice, except when a state or territory has adopted the standards "in whole"."

"41 states and the District of Columbia joined the Common Core State Standards Initiative; Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Alaska, Nebraska, Indiana and South Carolina did not.[13] Minnesota adopted the English Language Arts standards but not the Mathematics standards.[14] Following pushback and reductions in financial support, the project lost momentum and at least 12 states introducing legislation to prohibit implementation.[15] Eventually, multiple states that initially adopted the Common Core Standards decided to repeal or replace them including Indiana, Arizona, Oklahoma,[16] South Carolina, and Florida also abandoned the standard.[17] New York State would eventually replace their version of the Common Core Standards with The Next Generation Learning Standards.[18]"

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They really are disgusting, aren't they, and true bottom-feeders. Actually, even lower -if possible- as at least bottom feeders scavenge and eat the rubbish and muck. These people just make it.

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