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National curriculum plan may face challenge Common Core national education standards have been heavily promoted by the Obama administration....Only Alaska, Texas, Nebraska and Virginia have resisted Common Core,....Backed by Gov. Nikki Haley,... lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing legislation that would withdraw their state from the system.
...[Common Core] standards have garnered strong support from many high-profile Republicans. Govs. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Bill Haslam of Tennessee, Chris Christie of New Jersey and others have enthusiastically backed them.
No mention of it in the story, but I wonder if Odrama will extort threaten to withhold federal money if the states don't comply?
Quote from: AlanS on May 13, 2012, 05:51:50 AMNo mention of it in the story, but I wonder if Odrama will extort threaten to withhold federal money if the states don't comply?You know he will, it's their standard modus operandi.