Indiana — breaking up (with Common Core) is hard to do…
May 31, 2014
On March 24, 2014, Indiana’s Governor Pence signed SB 91 into law replacing the Common Core State Standards with its own Indiana Standards. So what’s the problem?
Somehow, they ended up with new standards that were almost the same as the recently rejected standards.
Indiana wanted to keep their federal waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act’s onerous mandates. To do this, they had to develop “college and career readiness” standards which met the federal guidelines, that is, they had to use the same blueprint to build their Indiana Standards as the blueprint for the Common Core.
Read the article.
Federal funding always comes with mandates. Indiana and all the other states should divorce itself from federal funding, free itself from federal mandates, and truly serve the educational needs of the children in their state.
On March 24, 2014, Indiana’s Governor Pence signed SB 91 into law replacing the Common Core State Standards with its own Indiana Standards. So what’s the problem?
Somehow, they ended up with new standards that were almost the same as the recently rejected standards.
Indiana wanted to keep their federal waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act’s onerous mandates. To do this, they had to develop “college and career readiness” standards which met the federal guidelines, that is, they had to use the same blueprint to build their Indiana Standards as the blueprint for the Common Core.
Read the article.
Federal funding always comes with mandates. Indiana and all the other states should divorce itself from federal funding, free itself from federal mandates, and truly serve the educational needs of the children in their state.