Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In 2017, North Carolina adopted new math and reading standards, after deciding to ...
In a move that surprised the education community and parents alike, Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, this month fast-tracked a bill aimed at eliminating the Common Core standards in ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. DeSantis announced Thursday that he intends to end Common Core in the state, but Florida has done this all before. In 2013, then Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to withdraw from ...
The English/language arts and math standards in most states that “un-adopted” or made changes to the Common Core State Standards are, in the end, “substantially weaker,” according to a new report by ...
PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer ordered her agencies to stop using the term “Common Core’’ when referring to new education standards, in response to hostility from critics over what they see as a federal ...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Governor Ron DeSantis has officially eliminated Florida's Common Core education standards and replaced it with B.E.S.T. B.E.S.T. stands for Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking ...
The two words don’t appear anywhere in the more than 150 pages of the state’s new math and reading goals. “Common Core standards in South Dakota are officially gone,” said state Secretary of Education ...