Open Letter To Gov. Sandoval RE: Common Core
Dear Governor,
There is no reason why YOU should feel any attachment to Common Core (CCSS). It was an "Every Child Left Behind" and a "Race To The Bottom" application, initiated by the former school chief and revised by the former Governor, which committed Nevada to adopt CCSS. The Legislature followed with bills in 2011 and 2013, none of which specified CCSS. It was the bureaucracy that chose to do that. The NRS, and bills such as AB288, only call for new standards and tests, without ever mentioning or unambiguously prescribing CCSS or SBAC.
The “architect” of CCSS is bragging how he convinced the governors to pretend CCSS is their creation. Now he reveals CCSS testing as a database for political campaigns:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/02/Obama-s-Re-Election-T...
Other sources reveal the data collection to be part of a UN program... (http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Pages/default.aspx).
What more reason do you need to pause and re-evaluate CCSS?
Only YOU can do it now.
Peter Hennessey, Ph.D.
Carson City