A second southwest Missouri school district has joined the fight against the way Common Core Standards are being implemented.
At its meeting Thursday night, the Jasper R-5 Board of Education passed a resolution substantially the same as the one passed a few months ago by the East Newton R-6 Board of Education.
East Newton was the first school district in Missouri to express concerns about Common Core.
The board issued the following news release:
The Jasper School Board passed a resolution at its February 27, 2014 meeting requesting that Missouri’s elected officials re-evaluate adoption of the statewide Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
The resolution states that: “Our concerns are similar to the resolution from the East Newton R6 Board of Education… We wish to add our voice of concern to theirs.”
The resolution asks the Missouri legislature to discontinue funding programs in association with the CCSS Initiative/Missouri’s Core — and any other alliances that promote standards and assessments aligned to them.
Many of the questions surrounding the concerns address local control, proposed data collected on individual students and federal education oversight for local schools. This is the second such resolution in the state.
1 comment:
The government needs to stop trying to control everything. When the feds make the rules, someone gets a kick back and we lose quality. How about we let EDUCATORS who know about child development TEACH instead of testing all the time.
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