The state board officially rejected the Common Core standards today. This win belongs to every person who pushed back against federal overreach in our classrooms. Stay alert for upcoming school board elections to ensure our local control remains secure.
January 31, 2016
Final supporters
• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from Kansas and puts it in the hands of private trade organizations who wrote and copyrighted the standards and who are not accountable to the public which pays for their implementation.
• It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
• It makes it practically impossible for local school districts to control their costs because independent consortia develop assessment tools which our districts must use. These on-line assessments are not only many times more expensive than our existing tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet.
• Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been tested and found to be superior to existing state standards. They have never been tried before. Their implementation in 45 states amounts to a massive pilot program that uses our children as test subjects.
• Common Core assessments ramp up the collection of personally identifiable data on our children. Through various agreements this data will be sent directly to the US Department of Education who has changed the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to allow this data to be shared with other government agencies and third parties without our knowledge or consent.
• The architect of the Common Core Standards has vowed to align the SAT tests to these standards thereby pressuring homeschoolers and private schools to teach to these standards as well. Millions of children will be lost inside a one size fits all system designed to create equal mediocrity among the new “global citizens.”
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
December 15, 2015
December 12, 2015
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need a final push to hit that benchmark before we present this to the state board. Post the link on Facebook right now and email your local representative to demand they restore control to our district.
July 11, 2015
I am spending my time right now contacting district representatives to demand they explain their funding ties to these assessment consortia. Use the link on this page to email your state representative and tell them you want control returned to our local boards.
Reached 100 supporters
September 6, 2013
September 4, 2013
We are pushing for 100 signatures to prove our demands have serious backing before we confront the board. Text the link to three people right now and post it on your Facebook timeline.
356 Comments
Just found out that they've done away with D and F grades, just PN, progress needed, in elementary report cards. After having to reteach math to my sixth grader so she can actually solve the problems, where is this going exactly and why are the parents the last to know.
Stop Common Core now. Aside from its mission to create mediocrity, my sons are miserable with the overly ridiculous amount of additional homework. This must stop. These kids must be allowed to be kids - education is very important but so is a child's happiness.
Just another example of too much gov't. I can't even understand how math is being taught any more when helping my grand-kids and I'm an engineer. Could save a lot of money in education administrative costs by consolidating small districts.
My 9 yr old has this in her school and she is struggling with math. When I try to help her, explaining the easy way to get an answer, she gets more confused because that is not how they teach with common core. You should not teach kids to use 20 steps to figure out 17-8.
Our children's futures are too important than to allow the complete take over of education of our children by the government. We as Kansans need to work together to ensure common core dos not get implemented here before it is too late!
Common core has got to stop. Parental rights an students rights are being attacked by government. This must stop now!!!
Common Core is ridiculous and totally dumbing down our children not only in grade school and high school but destroying there changes of a good college education. It must be stopped now.
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The state board officially rejected the Common Core standards today. This win belongs to every person who pushed back against federal overreach in our classrooms. Stay alert for upcoming school board elections to ensure our local control remains secure.
January 31, 2016
Final supporters
• Common Core removes control of our state k-12 education standards from Kansas and puts it in the hands of private trade organizations who wrote and copyrighted the standards and who are not accountable to the public which pays for their implementation.
• It allows the federal government to dictate the terms of our teacher evaluations.
• It makes it practically impossible for local school districts to control their costs because independent consortia develop assessment tools which our districts must use. These on-line assessments are not only many times more expensive than our existing tests, they are a technical impossibility for many schools in our state who do not have broadband access to the internet.
• Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked as marketed, nor have they been tested and found to be superior to existing state standards. They have never been tried before. Their implementation in 45 states amounts to a massive pilot program that uses our children as test subjects.
• Common Core assessments ramp up the collection of personally identifiable data on our children. Through various agreements this data will be sent directly to the US Department of Education who has changed the Family Education Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) to allow this data to be shared with other government agencies and third parties without our knowledge or consent.
• The architect of the Common Core Standards has vowed to align the SAT tests to these standards thereby pressuring homeschoolers and private schools to teach to these standards as well. Millions of children will be lost inside a one size fits all system designed to create equal mediocrity among the new “global citizens.”
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
December 15, 2015
December 12, 2015
We are approaching one thousand signatures and need a final push to hit that benchmark before we present this to the state board. Post the link on Facebook right now and email your local representative to demand they restore control to our district.
July 11, 2015
I am spending my time right now contacting district representatives to demand they explain their funding ties to these assessment consortia. Use the link on this page to email your state representative and tell them you want control returned to our local boards.
Reached 100 supporters
September 6, 2013
September 4, 2013
We are pushing for 100 signatures to prove our demands have serious backing before we confront the board. Text the link to three people right now and post it on your Facebook timeline.
356 Comments
Thank you for circulating this! I have been against common core from the beginning and have had to already start supplementing my children's education outside of school because of the lack of basic learning in these standards!
Just found out that they've done away with D and F grades, just PN, progress needed, in elementary report cards. After having to reteach math to my sixth grader so she can actually solve the problems, where is this going exactly and why are the parents the last to know.
Stop Common Core now. Aside from its mission to create mediocrity, my sons are miserable with the overly ridiculous amount of additional homework. This must stop. These kids must be allowed to be kids - education is very important but so is a child's happiness.
Just another example of too much gov't. I can't even understand how math is being taught any more when helping my grand-kids and I'm an engineer. Could save a lot of money in education administrative costs by consolidating small districts.
My 9 yr old has this in her school and she is struggling with math. When I try to help her, explaining the easy way to get an answer, she gets more confused because that is not how they teach with common core. You should not teach kids to use 20 steps to figure out 17-8.
Our children's futures are too important than to allow the complete take over of education of our children by the government. We as Kansans need to work together to ensure common core dos not get implemented here before it is too late!
Common core has got to stop. Parental rights an students rights are being attacked by government. This must stop now!!!
Common Core is ridiculous and totally dumbing down our children not only in grade school and high school but destroying there changes of a good college education. It must be stopped now.
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Thank you for circulating this! I have been against common core from the beginning and have had to already start supplementing my children's education outside of school because of the lack of basic learning in these standards!