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The Governor has officially committed to withdrawing North Carolina from these national standards. We have succeeded in reclaiming our local control over the classroom curriculum. I appreciate your commitment to educational excellence throughout this effort.

August 27, 2014

Petition Governor Pat McCrory to opt-out of Common Core state education standards

Petition Governor Pat McCrory to opt-out of Common Core state education standards

🏆 Won — 1,042 supporters Verified

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 4 months ago
Common Core is a progressive program that will dumb down our kids by chipping away at academic excellence in the name of fairness, diversity and social justice. It is nothing more than a federal takeover of school curriculum and standards across the country. Common Core’s standards undermine local control of education by forcing us to use their progressive curricular materials and forces untested, mediocre and incoherent theories on America’s schoolchildren. Governor McCrory, please take a long hard look and this program and get North Carolina out of it.

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Reached 1,000 supporters

June 8, 2014

February 6, 2014

I am currently communicating with a number of local school board members to discuss the specific impacts of these standards on our classrooms. The growing collection of signatures provides a substantial foundation for these ongoing conversations regarding the necessity of restoring local control over our curriculum.

Reached 100 supporters

May 2, 2013

May 1, 2013

We are approaching the one hundred signature milestone for this initiative. Please distribute this petition through your personal networks to help us reach this target today.

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Ruth Cole
12 years ago Featured

Please opt North Carolina out of Common Core. I have two students in our state school and their standards of education are mediocre at best. The teachers are struggling to implement the standards which are below what they were teaching a couple of years ago.

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Margaret Gresham
12 years ago Featured

Governor, Please do your research and oppose Common Core. My grandchildren age 14 bring home from Honors English class at ECHHS supplemental reading materials that are blatant propaganda. Have you read the language arts supplemental texts? Please HELP!!!

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Margaret Segal
12 years ago Featured

There are stories from all over the country of children being so frustrated by struggling with this material that they are crying in the classroom. Education should be controlled locally - this federal overreach must be called to account, and NOW.

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Anonymous
12 years ago Featured

Please Gov. McCrory as stated in petition, "please take a long hard look at this program and get North Carolina out of Common Core". We urge you to sign HB1061 as it stands, not as senate has changed. The children of North Carolina do not deserve this kind of abuse.

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Anonymous
12 years ago Featured

NC has some of the best colleges in the US. The state of NC is quite capable of setting competitive standards for the children of NC. Please don't let go of the freedom to choose the best standards and curriculum for the children of NC.

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Mary
12 years ago Featured

I don't want my children learning by Common Core Standards. My child has done a180 from loving school the last 2 years to hating it this year. Only thing that has changed is the standards. They are age inappropriate and not for our children!

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Jon Sowers
9 years ago

MAGA 2017

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Anonymous
9 years ago

NC can do better than Common Core. Stick to the basics. People in past generations knew more than students today because they learned the basics.