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发帖数: 19398 | 1 GOP Senators: No More Money for Common Core
By Alyson Klein on April 7, 2014 3:48 PM
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2014/04/gop_senato
Ten Republican senators don't want to see another dime of federal money
going to states in exchange for adopting certain academic standards. That
includes the Common Core State Standards, now embraced by 45 states and the
District of Columbia. The senators also don't want any more federal funding
going to develop assessments that go along with the common core, or any
other set of standards.
And they've said so, in a letter sent April 4 to U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-
Iowa, the chairman of the panel that oversees K-12 spending, and Sen. Jerry
Moran, R-Kan., the top Republican on the subcommittee. The letter suggests
adding language to the bill financing the U.S. Department of Education that
essentially would bar the education secretary from using any federal funds
to bolster a particular set of standards or tests.
The letter was signed by Sens. Pat Roberts of Kansas, Chuck Grassley of Iowa
, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand
Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Mike Enzi
of Wyoming, and John Barrasso of Wyoming.
Sound familiar? Grassley wrote a similar letter last year. And there has
been a spate of Republican bills in Congress that take aim at common core.
Some background: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave states that
jumped on board the common-core train a leg up in the first round of the
Race to the Top grant competition, and directed $360 million in Race to the
Top money to two consortia to develop tests aligned with those standards.
Those moves attracted a little grumbling from GOP lawmakers at the time, but
have become way more controversial as states actually begin to implement
the common core. |
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