Sunday, August 31, 2014

Where Do States Stand Today On The Common Core Standards?

Where Do States Stand Today On The Common Core Standards?: Americans’ support of the Common Core is plummeting, so let’s take a look at where all the states stand to date on the controversial standards.

Three states have officially repealed the Common Core standards – Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Indiana – but only Oklahoma’s repeal bill allowed its public schools to return to its prior education standards while new standards are developed. South Carolina schools are still using the Common Core this school year while they write new standards, but Indiana’s “repeal” was actually a “rebrand” of the nationalized standards. Indiana’s replacement standards are so similar to the Common Core that the state was granted a one-year extension of its No Child Left Behind waiver by the Obama administration, while Oklahoma’s waiver was rescinded.

The following 34 states have introduced anti-Common Core legislation:

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