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American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Common Core Initiative Standards, Federal funding, Jeb Bush, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), Presidential Election 2016, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
Jeb Bush is trying to distance himself from Common Core
He is avoiding using the term, and when he was asked about Common Core while campaigning in Iowa on Friday, August 14, 2015, Bush responded, “The term Common Core is so darned poisonous, I don’t even know what it means anymore.”
He’s just a guy who supports “state-created higher standards”:
Bush has previously described the standards as “poisonous politically,” but on Friday, he seemed thoroughly exasperated by the term itself and looked to move past it.
“I’m for higher standards – state-created, locally implemented – where the federal government has no role in the creation of standards, content or curriculum,” Bush said in Iowa.
He doesn’t say that the government should have no role in creating assessments. Strategic omission since the federal government obviously funded two Common Core assessment consortia, PARCC and Smarter Balanced[…]
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Thanks to Jeb Bush taking advantage of the bully pulpit these past years, the archives are plentiful of Bush’s role and support of Common Core standards not to mention his antagonism against opposing voices.
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