We ask you to immediately take the steps necessary to rescind Common Core adoption, the Race to the Top application, the No Child Left Behind waiver, and all other requirements placed upon the state that are related to these, and return to the Arkansas standards in use prior to Common Core adoption. Second, I request the Arkansas Governor and the Secretary of Education to review all documentation related to such applications and contracts as mentioned above to ensure our state sovereignty is held inviolate. I further request that this review of programs, documents, and applications, include an examination to ensure no private or personal information about students is transmitted outside of local schools and districts (except as is presently permitted by state law). Third, inasmuch as the Arkansas State Board of Education adopted Common Core State Standards before they were even written, failed to perform a cost analysis related to statewide adoption, and failed to hold well publicized public meetings where citizens could review the actual standards prior to adoption, we request that the state legislature hold public hearings this session with a thorough inquiry into what it will cost to implement these standards, the issue of adopting standards that have not yet been written, the quality of the the standards that have been written (English and Math), and how CCS will affect dissemination of student information (privacy issues).