Support Senate Bill 6030! End Common Core in Washington State
February 18, 2015
They say politics make strange bedfellows, and it’s true. A coalition of very progressive grassroots progressives, very conservative grassroots conservatives, and the whole spectrum in between have joined to reject the Common Core State Standards. At the same time, Democrat Senator Marilyn Chase and Republican Senator Pam Roach have co-sponsored Senate Bill 6030 to reject the Common Core and return to what we had before–the Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements or “EALRs.”
While we have never been fans of the the EALRs, at least they were Washington State EALRs. This bill is a first step in returning education control to the state level. When we once again have control over our own state standards, we will have the ability to improve them.
Read Washington State Senate Bill 6030 here.
Stay tuned. There will be a similar bill soon in the Washington State House of Representatives.
They say politics make strange bedfellows, and it’s true. A coalition of very progressive grassroots progressives, very conservative grassroots conservatives, and the whole spectrum in between have joined to reject the Common Core State Standards. At the same time, Democrat Senator Marilyn Chase and Republican Senator Pam Roach have co-sponsored Senate Bill 6030 to reject the Common Core and return to what we had before–the Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements or “EALRs.”
While we have never been fans of the the EALRs, at least they were Washington State EALRs. This bill is a first step in returning education control to the state level. When we once again have control over our own state standards, we will have the ability to improve them.
Read Washington State Senate Bill 6030 here.
Stay tuned. There will be a similar bill soon in the Washington State House of Representatives.