ACTION ITEM: HOW MUCH WILL COMMON CORE COST YOU?

There has never been a fiscal study of how much it will cost to implement Common Core. No one really knows how much it will cost your local school district to implement CC. A few years ago the feds bribed Florida with "Race to the Top" money to get our politicians to agree to implement Common Core, but guess what? The Race to the Top money is almost gone so Common Core costs will have to be covered with new money. Is Tallahassee going to start giving more money to the schools? Maybe, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Most likely new expenses will be unfunded mandates that your local school district will have to cover and they probably don't have the money to do so. That means they will have to cut something else or get more taxes from you, all to implement an education curriculum whose merits have been shrouded in secrecy. Good public policy is done in the sunlight, not in secrecy. Florida has been conned, we need to tell our elected officials to back out of Common Core. The mood in Tallahassee is that many of our legislators are on the fence and they need to know that we the citizens don't want liberal, ham-fisted, D.C. central planner’s data mining our kids and gaming the lesson plans to teach them to be good little servants of the state.  These are OUR schools, the schools WE pay for, the schools WE elect school board members to govern, the schools WE and our neighbors send our children to, the FLORIDA schools, not the federal schools.  

                                                 Legislative Subterfuge

Common Core Opponents just returning from Tallahassee report that after meetings with members of the House and Senate Education Committees on the issue of Common Core those legislators and their staff were all working off the same talking points to sidetrack and confuse those opposing Common Core, including the Governor’s office. The Florida Department of Education recently made minor adjustments to Common Core and Rep. Janet Adkins and the K-12 Subcommittee passed a bill (PCB TKS 14-01) , that removes references to Common Core and changes the name to the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards or Florida Standards. Remember that last year our Florida legislators redefined the term Next Generation Sunshine State Standards to include Common Core. This is just a change in semantics with no change in implementation. After just a couple of meetings, it would have been laughable if weren't so sad that they actually think we will be fooled by their subterfuge. Despite minor changes to the standards and a new name, Common Core Standards are still moving forward in Florida.

 SB864 and HB921 are end around bills designed to make the public believe they oppose Federal intrusion and Common Core standards (see below).  If all the text books we have to choose from are aligned to Common Core, and the students’ tests will be based on Common Core, and schools and teachers will be graded on their students’ tests, there is still no choice for school districts but Common Core aligned curriculum, most of which is produced by Pearson PLC and the College Board.  

Senate President Don Gaetz and Speaker Will Weatherford told us in person that these are the bills they support and they will not allow SB1316 and HB25 to be heard in Committee: Why Not? Because, Debby Mayfield’s bill HB 25, is the only bill that actually will stop Common Core, and they know it.

HB25 is Representative Debbie Mayfield's Stop Common Core bill. Its first committee stop is the House Education Appropriations Sub Committee chaired by Representative Eric Fresen. So far he is refusing to schedule the bill for a committee hearing. Call him at 850-717-5114 and demand that he schedule the bill for a hearing.

Representative Marlene O'Toole is Chair of the House Education committee. Call her at 850-717-5033 and tell her you support HB25 and want it heard in her committee.

SB1316 by Senator Evers is the Senate companion bill to HB25. Senator John Legg is the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee. Call Senator Legg at 850-487-5017 and tell him you support SB1316 and want it scheduled for a hearing in his committee. 

Finally, call the Governor's Education Policy Coordinator, Kim McDougal at 850-717-9376. You will get her assistant, Robert Schulte. Tell him you want to speak to Kim McDougal. He will want to take a message for her. Tell him to tell his boss, that her boss, the Governor, will pay a high price at the polls in November if he continues with the implementation of Common Core. 

                   We must not go quietly! We must not go down without a fight!

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Comment by Patricia M. McBride on March 22, 2014 at 11:01am

Good idea Angela.  I will do the same thing!

Comment by Angela Casey on March 22, 2014 at 9:25am

May I cut & paste this to FB? I will give you credit. Thanks.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on March 21, 2014 at 8:59pm

Thanks Vic.  If they try raising taxes to cover Common Core, it will  be a travesty...........making parents and others pay for something they fought to stop!   How sick is that.  About as sick as jamming Obamacare down our throats and not one bit different!

Comment by Chuck Harvey on March 21, 2014 at 9:48am

Excellent article and how very true based on our findings!

Thanks again!

Chuck

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