Last Monday Jane Robbins presented a great case against the Common Core Curriculum. For more information on this fight, please visit the following website:
Governor Deal's Office: 404.656.1776
Lt. Governor Cagle's Office: 404.656.5030
Senator Cowsert's Office: 404.463.1383
Senator Ligon's Office: 404.656.0045
Jane Robbin's has sent us a copy of a GOP Resolution against Common Core:
RESOLUTION OPPOSING "NATIONALIZED" COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
WHEREAS, in 2010 officials in the Executive Branch committed our state to participation in the Common Core State Standards Initiative through the federal Race to the Top grant; and
WHEREAS, this participation required our state to adopt the Common Core standards in K-12 English language arts and mathematics, and to commit to implementing the national Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessments, all without legislative oversight and without open public vetting by citizens; and
WHEREAS, adoption of Common Core obliterates Georgia’s constitutional autonomy over the education of our children in English language arts and mathematics, placing control in the hands of the federal government and unaccountable private interests in Washington, DC; and
WHEREAS, the Common Core standards have been evaluated by experts as mediocre at best, and based on questionable philosophies; and
WHEREAS, the Common Core standards will inevitably lead to a national curriculum, in violation of three federal statutes; and
WHEREAS, the Common Core scheme will be expanded to include national standards and curriculum in science, social studies, and other subjects; and
WHEREAS, neither the Common Core standards nor the PARCC assessments were ever piloted to determine their effectiveness; and
WHEREAS, both the Common Core standards and the PARCC tests will impose an enormous unfunded mandate on our state and our local school districts; and
WHEREAS, Common Core is part of a national scheme that includes collection and sharing of massive amounts of personal student and teacher data;
THEREFORE, the GOP of _____________ County hereby resolves that our state leaders should:
* Withdraw our state from the Common Core State Standards Initiative;
* Withdraw our state from the PARCC assessment scheme, and any other testing aligned with the Common Core standards;
* Prohibit all state officials from entering into any agreement that cedes any measure of control over Georgia education to entities outside the state and ensure that all content standards and curriculum decisions are adopted through a transparent state-wide process fully accountable to the citizens of Georgia; and
* Prohibit the collection of personal student data for any non-educational purpose, and the sharing of personal data except with schools or education agencies within the state.
