Sentences with phrase «federal takeover of education»

It's the Common Core State Standards, which, the ultra-conservative Christian group said in a fund - raising e-mail, is a «morally corrupt federal takeover of education» that will lead to «a nation where children are indoctrinated with a liberal ideology that celebrates sexual perversion, worships the creation rather than the Creator, all at the expense of academic achievement and our nation's Christian heritage.»

«It was the math homework that alerted us, but the more you look into it, the more you realize there's a loss of local control, that it is indeed a federal takeover of education through the assessment,» says Tuttle.

Tea Party activists in particular have been leading the movement against the Common Core in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana, alleging that the guidelines are a federal takeover of education.

And there are plenty of conservatives who don't like Common Core, afraid that it is a federal takeover of education.

In the last year, though, grassroots opposition has been brewing among conservatives who point to grants and waivers linked to the Common Core as a sign of a federal takeover of education.

Common Core is not a federal takeover of education.

In May, state tea party groups sent a letter to Walker and the Legislature accusing the Common Core of being all sorts of bad things, including an «educational fraud» and something of a federal takeover of education.

Wilhoit noted some irony in the against the Common Core State Standards in some state revolves around the mistaken notion that it is part of a federal takeover of education when CCSSO and the National Governors Association started the common core as a reaction to what was seen as a federal overreach in education based in the No Child Left Behind Act and other federal actions.

Many of them say the math and English standards are developmentally inappropriate for younger children, while others have equated Common Core to a federal takeover of education.

The Common Core is not a federal takeover of education, but, as noted above, that concern is far from baseless.

That was viewed by many as a reference to Common Core, which spurred some conservative figures and institutions to decry the standards as a federal takeover of education and in turn led to the legislation calling for specifically opting out of Common Core.