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Common Core comes to the Capistrano Unified School District
(CUSD). Common Core is a U.S. education initiative sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), that seeks to bring diverse state
curricula into alignment with each other by following the principles of standards-based
education reform.
The controversial initiative pits advocates of limited-government and local
control of education against the public school establishment. Or as syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin
might say, “the corrupt establishment
who has tried for decades to impose dumbed-down, politicized curricular
conformity in America’s classrooms. Thanks to think tanks, whistle-blowing educators
and bloggers, vigilant local and state legislators, and tireless parents
committed to protecting their children, the truth about federalized Common Core
standards is spreading”
Ms. Malkin
started her journalism career at the
Los Angeles Daily News in 1992, moved to the Seattle Times in 1995, and has
been a nationally syndicated newspaper
columns for Creators Syndicate since 1999.
CUSD Trustee Anna Bryson has been a vocal opponent of the
new standards, saying that it hurts high-performing districts like CUSD. In a recent piece by the Capo Dispatch
titled CUSD
adapts to Common Core,Ms Bryson is echoes Ms. Malkin’s position stating
that:
“California has had the highest standards in math and
English. It’s sad to think that across the state, many districts will implement
these lacking, lowered standards….The Common Core is not the ultimate answer.
There are better ways of helping our students achieve at a higher level than
imposing a blanket standard across the nation.”
“Children are not to be experimented with,” said Bryson, who
expressed concern that STAR testing, which has been administered in California
since 1999, would be eliminated. “If our students are learning and achieving,
why take it away? Why did we trash the nation’s best math and English
standards?”
Ms. Bryson is spot on.
There are other more effective ways to peel the already rotten public
education onion starting at the core:
Removing the Common Core.
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