This development leaves the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) along with
education reform advocates without a candidate to support in the general election, according to the New York Daily News.
Central to the thinking (and rhetoric) of the
advocates of Common Core on
education reform was the idea that state performance standards were already on a downward slide and that,
without nationalization, standards would inexorably continue on a «race to the bottom.»
They are heavily funded by a handful of millionaires and billionaires and passed through groups like Stand for Children, ALEC, Democrats for
Education Reform, and 50CAN, who use their funding to
advocate for privatization, for high - stakes testing, for evaluating teachers by test scores, and for stripping teachers of any due process so that experienced teachers may easily be replaced by newcomers who will work at entry - level wages and leave
without ever collecting a pension.