While schools all over the United States, including the Joplin R-8 School District, have fallen all over themselves promising to obey all of the dictates of Common Core Standards to rake in that federal money, one school district in southwest Missouri, East Newton, has seen fit to question Common Core.
In the accompanying video, the principal of a New York school district dropped out of Race for the Top because of what many have said- it is the most wide-reaching grab for personal information ever made by the government.
The situation is a bit different in New York than it is in Missouri, but not by much. With last year's revelations about the Department of Revenue sending information to the federal government and the way the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has fallen all over itself latching on to Common Core Standards and Race to the Top, does anyone have any doubt the state will be seeking more and more information about students and parents and that every bit of it will be headed to the federal government and preferred marketers?
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