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State policymakers talk standards, Race to the Top, ESEA
- 08-23-2010
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Blog by Alyson Klein/Education Week
Memo to Congress and the U.S. Department of Education: Stay out of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. At least that was the message at an Education Commission of the States forum session Friday from three state policymakers whose states have either won the Race to the Top competition (Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat from Tennessee) or are finalists (Dwight Jones, the state schools chief in Colorado, and Mitchell Chester, the state schools chief in Massachusetts.) If the feds decide to take ownership of Common Core, they could inject an unwelcome note of partisanship, Bredesen said. (more…)
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