Some "dragons" are much harder to slay.

In July, 2014 NC passed legislation to repeal and replace the
Common Core national education standard, an accomplishment
thanks to tens of thousands of parents and teachers who saw
first hand the problems caused.

That was more than two years ago and now, the hopes of those 
who  worked so hard may have been dashed, Common Core is still
with us. You see, some "dragons" are much harder to slay.

Common Core appears to be something more than just another
government driven initiative, it is the cornerstone of an education
"industry" that will require more than rallying citizens, creating 
thousands on "Stop Common Core" websites, calling representatives,
or protesting at the legislature to defeat.

The battle is not just against the NC Dept. of Education which has 
been dragging its bureaucratic heals, its against the people behind 
the scenes who I will call the "James Brothers", who drive education
in NC and how our children will be taught, former governor Jim Hunt
and SAS CEO, Jim Goodnight! Both have strongly supported Common
Core from the beginning, even without seeing results, thanks to
non-existent testing.

I suppose if Common Core was good enough for deep pocketed Bill
Gates, it was fine with them.

But, as anxious as they were to have our children learn under Common
Core, Jim Goodnight's own private school, Cary Academy, "is still
evaluating it".

Even Gov. McCrory who in the last two years has gotten himself bogged
down with divisive issues, does not seem equally interested in getting
rid of  the one issue the majority of citizens demand!

But, NC citizens are not alone in the battle to defeat this education
"dragon", the resistance can be found nationwide, noted in report on
academia.org website.

Note:
The unpopularity of the Common Core educational standards is not causing it’s proponents to rethink it but to rebrand it. “In 2010, every state but Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia adopted Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts,” Joy Pullmann writes in the second edition of Common Core: A Bad Choice for America, published by the Heartland Institute. “Five years later, three in five Americans said they don’t know if Common Core is in their local schools.”

“While 25 states have renamed Common Core to avoid a growing public backlash against these mandates, 43 states kept Common Core standards in some form and are now using them to teach students.” In other words, most states are still using them but more than half the country is trying to dupe parents into thinking they are not.

During the campaign season, this subterfuge enabled certain Republican candidates for president to deliver full-throated denunciations of Common Core even while scarcely lifting a finger to do anything about it. For example, three states that abandoned Common Core classic for new Common Core were Indiana, New Jersey and Louisiana.

The link to this website, http://bit.ly/2cK7mV3

Its hard to believe the General Assembly and Gov. McCrory are fully committed 
to NC public education when they allow this duplicity, leading on the public 
about repealing Common Core, yet allowing the Dept. of  Education do the 
bidding of the "James Brothers".

Pass along to others equally concerned with public education.