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Educateyourself and others on the CommonCore State Standards Initiative.

Resource web sites:truthinamericaneducation.com

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ACTCall, e-mail or writ e your governor and state

legislators today and tell them to withdraw yourstate from the Common Core.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOMIS ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Education is a power reserved to the states andtheir citizens. In Federalist Paper45, James Madi-son wrote, "The powers delegated by the pro-posed Constitution to the federal gov ernment arefew and defined. Those which are to remain inthe State governments are numerous and indefi-nite." The Founders established a compoundRepublic of divided units of government to pre-

vent the centralization of power. They knew thatas power grows, liberty retreats. The very at temptto establish nationwide educational standards,federally driven testing, and a centralized data-tracking system on students strikes at the veryheart of the constitutional balance that maintainsa free nation. Join the fight to pass a heritage ofliberty to the next generation.

Allies

Americans for Prosperity * American PrinciplesProject * American Values * Cato Institute * Citi-zen Impact, USA * U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn *Concerned Women for America * U.S. Sen. TedCruz * Eagle Forum * U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer *Freedom Works * U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley *

Gov. Nikki Haley * Heartland Institute * HeritageFoundation * Home School Legal Defense Asso-ciation * Hoover Institute * U.S. Sen. James In-hofe * U.S. Sen. Mike Lee * John Locke Founda-tion * Gov. Bob McDonnell * Former Atty. Gen.Ed Meese * Pacific Research Institute * formerGov. Sarah Palin * U.S. Sen. Rand Paul * Gov.Mike Pence * Gov. Ri ck Perry * Pioneer Institute* Republican National Committee * U.S. Sen. PatRoberts * former Presidential Candidate RickSantorum * U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions * Truth in

American Education * Washington Policy Center

Hundreds of Republican, 912, and Tea Party

groups have joined the effort.

truthinameric

It would be foolish and i rresponsible to

place our childrens future in the hands

of unelected bureaucrats and special in-

terest groups thousands of miles away in

Washington, virtually eliminating

parents participation in their

childrens education.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas

(rejecting the Common Core standards)

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Federal Control Over CurriculumThrough Federally Dictated Tests

Most states have committed to implementing thenational tests starting in 2014. The Obama Ad-ministration is funding the tests and monitoringtheir developmentand thus controlling what ison the tests and, inevitably, what will be taught inthe classroom.4 Even states that have withdrawnfrom the two federally funded tests will have toadminister Common Core-aligned testsand

what is on the tests will dictate curriculum. Theonly flexibility states will have is the flexibilityto choose one Common Core-aligned textbookover another Common Core-aligned textbook.

Whos Going to Pay for This?

In addition to expensive teacher-retraining and textbook purchases,the Common Core testing will beexorbitantly expensive. Many statetesting budgets will at least double

when the computerized tests areimplemented, not including infra-

structure costs.

There is insufficient money in most state budgetsto pay for this. Local districts will be hit with anenormous unfunded mandate.

Threats to Student and Family Privacy

Common Core is part of a broader federal effortto collect massive amounts of personal studentand family data to share with other governmentagencies and even private companies.

According to U.S. Education Secretary ArneDuncan, Hopefully, someday we can track chil-

dren from preschool to high school and from

The only mathematicCore Validation Comjoke to think studen

monparety.

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Even a Common Cothat many states prevleast as good as, an inCommon Core.

The Common Core pshould be trained as whuman beings and citof this philosophy: Inof classic literature is than half of the Engli

with informational tment documents and

Threats to School Schoolers

Charter schools will hCommon Core tests, teaching Common Co

The new head of theening to align the SAunless states disrupt tof Common Core,13 ebe caught in the web.

high school to college and college to career. 5

Any data that the national testing consortia re-ceive on studentseven personally identifiabledatamust be shared with the U.S. Departmentof Education.6 The Obama Administration is in-creasingly aggressive in demanding personal stu-dent data from states in exchange for grants. Andthe Administration has gutted federal student-privacy law,7 so that data can be distributed al-most without limitwithout parental consent, or

even parental knowledge.

Training Students for Entry-Level Jobs,Not Educating Them for Life

The Common Core standards have never beenpiloted or tested. Theclaim that they arerigorous and will makestudents college- andcareer-ready is pureguesswork.

A Common Core devel-

oper admitted that Com-mon Core is designed toprepare students for non-selective community col-leges, not universities.8

Despite initial promises tothe contrary, the stand-ards are notinternationally bench-marked.9

The nations premier expert on ELA standardsgives the Common Core standards a D. Shesays they consist of empty skill sets, not content

knowledge, and will not prepare students for au-thentic college coursework.10

What Is Common Core, and HowDid We Get Here?

Common Core is a set of K-12 standards inEnglish language arts (ELA) and math, de-

veloped not by the states, but primarily bytrade groups and privateinterestsin Washington, D.C.Funding came primarilyfrom another private

group, the Gates Foun-dation.1

Even before the stand-ards were released, ex-ecutive branch officialsin most states agreed toimplement CommonCore word for word tocompete for federal Race to the Top grants.Some of these states received grants, othersdid not, but all locked themselves in toCommon Core.

All this was done without the consent of

legislators, parents, teachers, and taxpayers.

Education Without Representation?

By adopting the Common Core nationalstandards, states have surrendered controlover ELA and math to unaccountable bu-reaucrats and special interests in Washing-ton, D.C.

Common Core is owned, copyrighted, andcontrolled by these interests.2 States cannotchange one word of the standards3 unlessdozens of other states and organizationsagree to those changes.

Across the nation, people are realizing they have been excluded from exercising one of their most treasured rights: the right to control the education o

How many schoolyears will be

sacrificed? Howmany student

successes will besacrificed? How

many good teachers

will besacrificed? How

many choices will besacrificed? The

answer is too manyand my kids are goingto be wrapped up in

its web.A frustrated parent