TribBlog: States Echoing Texas on National Standards

Not long after Texas turned down between $350 to $700 million in federal Race to the Top education grants, some in the vast majority of other states seeking the money are raising complaints similar to those launched by Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott.

Chiefly, Perry and Scott ridiculed grant rules prodding states to sign on to a national curriculum standards movement, called the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

An article today from Education Week quotes a host of school leaders from other states, meeting together at a conference in Las Vegas. The meeting, a gathering of state school boards from a dozen Western states, organized by the National Association of State Boards of Education, gave rise to complaints about federal intrusion into local curriculum decisions, along with inflexible rules – including that the standards be adopted “word for word.” continue….