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Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI)

Common Core

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The philosophy of the classroom today, will be the philosophy of the government tomorrow.
Abraham Lincoln

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What is Common Core?


Nationalized Education (in a nutshell)

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Background

Achieve, Inc.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Tides Foundation
National Governors Association (NGA)

USED (US Dept of Education RTTT


State Departments of Education

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)

Initiated July 2009 & finalized March 2010


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Common Core Requirements


45 states accepted RTTT $ and a waiver to NCLB (AYP). In return, the states agreed to: Adopt Common Core (CCSS) standards Implement assessments by 2014-2015 School Year Agree with all other states in the consortium Change state laws if need be to adhere to common core Adopt SLDS State Longitudinal Data Base (see appendix) Question: How can the PDE change state laws ? This is out of their jurisdiction.
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What about Curriculum? Pa has adopted the minimum CCSS standards to obtain the $$ and waiver from NCLB Math is being implemented first: 2013-2014 school year Literature is being implemented second: 2014-2015 school year

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1. Violates three components of the Constitution :


General Education Provisions Act Department of Education Organization Act Elementary and Secondary Education Act of

Why not? The claims for a more rigorous program sound great!

2. Violates 10th Amendment- LOSS OF LOCAL CONTROL TO WASHINGTON DC


3. Violates privacy of our children by collecting personal data on the student and their families
4. 5. 6. 7. 8. (see appendix Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems) Common Core testing (SMARTER Balanced and PARCC) dictate curriculum Dumbs Down Curriculum- e.g.: math two years behind FRSD. Literature reduced to 30% lit in high school! The remainder is informational/technical reading (see appendix) SAT testing will follow CC; Alternate Education not adhering to their standards will not pass the modified SATs thus eliminating their chances of entering college College prep for Common Core means two year associates degree prep- NOT FOUR YEAR DEGREE FOR ENGINEERING, FOR EXAMPLE. Cost Prohibitive: After three years of funding the states will be left to hold the bill of testing, training and implementing millions of dollars of technology per school district. Pennsylvania received $41 million. Estimated cost to implement is $650 million.

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How does it affect FRSD?

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How is the Math Curriculum Changing?

40% of FRSD math curriculum is changing

Algebra I being moved from 8th to 9th grade Students who want to pursue engineering and technical degrees in college will need private tutors to track into Calculus senior year Many schools in Pa already eliminating advanced math; FRSD will follow suit with its goal of having less than 10% of all middle school students taking Algebra I by the 8th grade.
See appendix for specific math sequence suggested for FRSD.
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How does CC Affect Literature?


Common Core dramatically changes literacy programs to have a focus on anthologies and non-fiction/informational text from classics.

Literacy Curriculum Changes NON-fiction Text Percentages


Current
60% 10% Elementary 20%

Common Core
65% 70% 20%

Middle School

High School

Question: During the school day, isnt roughly 90% of the day non -fiction with classes like math, computers, civics, history and science?
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How Much Will CC Cost Pa?


Pennsylvania received $41.3 million to implement Common Core Estimated cost: $650 Million not including constant upgrades in software, technology and constant teacher training
Cost to the Taxpayer
$700.00 $600.00 $500.00 $400.00 $300.00 $200.00 $100.00 $$ Millions
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RTTT $
Actual Cost

What About Privacy?


CCSS allows the following by law:
Grants school districts a waiver from FERPA in terms of deleting identifying information on their records. Allows school districts to then give these identifiable records basically to anyone who they deem to have an viable interest with these records. These organization or individuals chosen by the government to use this data to develop highly accurate predictive tests with no stated ethical procedures, guidelines, or institutional controls. (What are they exactly trying to predict? All done without written parental consent.
-Dr. Gary Thompson, Clinical Psychologist administering thousands of tests on children for Utah School Department of Education and the Longitudinal Data Collection System; He is no longer remaining silent.

FERPA supersedes HIPPA!


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What About Privacy?


FERPA Vs. HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a law passed by Congress intended to establish transaction, security, privacy, and other standards to address concerns about the electronic exchange of health information. However, the HIPAA Privacy Rule excludes from its coverage those records that are protected by FERPA at school districts and postsecondary institutions that provide health or medical services to students. This is because Congress specifically addressed how education records should be protected under FERPA. For this reason, records that are protected by FERPA are not subject to the HIPAA Privacy Rule and may be shared with parents under the circumstances described above.
- U.S. Department of Education

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Doesnt FERPA Protect Childrens Privacy?


FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act FERPA is now obsolete 2012 Arnie Dunkin said FERPA had a chilling effect on efforts to collect data on our children Consequently, he changed FERPA
FERPA (access to student records)2012 Teachers Principals Councilors FERPA after 2012

All previous
ANYONE IN EDUCATION EG: prisons EG: DHS

EG: any contractor


EG: any School Volunteer EG: any educational agency not limited to teachers, schools councilors & principals
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What Kind of Data Will be Collected on My child?


Blood Type Eye & Hair Color Dental Records Voter Status Political Affiliation Mothers maiden name Religious affiliation Extra curricular activities Premature birth Bus stop location and arrival times Income level Data collected from sensors that detect facial expressions, posture, stressors, A total of 533 fields of data!

Tracks data from PreK-age 20 Office of Education Technology of the US Department of Education has approved use of MRIs in the classroom and will put the equipment in the schools to analyze brain activity.
2. Promoting Grit, Tenacity, & Perseverance: Critical Factors in the 21st Century,
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1. http://ceds.ed.gov

References:

February 2013, US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology


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Dr. Gary Thompson/Concerns on Privacy


According to the U.S. Department of Education, CCSS will authorize the use of testing instruments that will measure the attributes, dispositions, social skills, attitudes and intra personal resources "of public school students under CCSS (USDOE Feb, 2013 Report).
These tests are being conducted by Dr. Gary Thompson in Utah. He has recently come out with many concerns regarding privacy of this testing and the integrity of the tests being implemented in our schools via Common Core.

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Dr. Gary Thompson Psychological and Behavioral Testing Concerns


What type of tests will there be? Who is developing these tests? These tests are unavailable for review No mention of peer review process Who will administer and interpret these tests? No accounting for African American & Latino Students who have skewed test results due to cultural issues WHO WILL HAVE ACCESS TO ALL THIS PERSONAL DATA?!?! See appendix for detailed explanation of his privacy concerns.

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FRSD State & Federal Funding


Funding
Federal 1% State 23%

Taxpayer 76%

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Why are there so many proponents?

Publishing companies, tech companies and testing companies have $ billions to gain. Pearson (British publishing company) has purchased all of the major educational textbook companies in the United States. Glencoe, McGraw Hill, Holt and all majors now belong to Pearson who embrace Common Core. Gates has $ billions to gain in technology upgrades Gates has made contributions to every entity that could possibly object to Common Core. He has given money to organizations like the Pennsylvania Business Council and PTO/PTAs to promote Common Core Leftist radicals can push their agendas into the earliest years of our children and teach their ideas as truth thus changing an entire culture Global warming taught in EVERY discipline including literature, social studies, math, science & technology. Samantha Power book A Problem from Hell; America & the Genocide IN FRSD CURRICULUM FR social studies workbook on Constitution stating the founding fathers were all white male landowners how could they represent more than half the population that wasnt white male? The founding fathers probably couldnt imagine seeking the input of these (minority) groups. It goes on to question students what the Constitution would look like if it was fair and wasn't created by white men (McGraw Hill p. 42) The way to phase out alternative education (private, Christian, cyber, magnet and home schooling) Gates now has a subsidiary that is in position to take over magnet and charter schools that fail the Common Core assessments (That is in the RTTT grant- if a magnet or charter school does not pass the Common Core assessments they will be taken over) Making our children homogenous worker bees; churning out workers for big corporations Case example: German family seeking asylum to home school: our future
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Can a State Opt Out of Common Core?


Once the state has accepted RTTT $, the only way to opt out is to:
Provide notice Return the $

Consortium of states must agree to let your state leave US Department of Education must approve

Now, what happened to the 10th Amendment?

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What Can our State Do?


Even though the US Department of Education and the states Departments of Education bypassed the legislature, there are three things legislators can do: Defund Common Core by amending the states budget House legislature stating that the state will not participate in Common Core There is a U.S. House Bill revoking Common Core at the federal level that needs support. (see appendix) Defunding Common Core seems to be the quickest, easiest way to halt Common
Core until legislators can investigate its content, intent and effect on our children. Please see the appendix for specific legislation and amendments to the Ohio and Michigan budgets that de-fund Common Core.
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Need to Educate

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School Board Superintendent City Council Teachers Union Gov. Corbett PDE Parents/PTAs & PTOs Community Legislators
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Appendix
Common Core Fast Fact Sheet Common Core Facts for Parents Longitudinal Data System OPT OUT of Common Core form List of legislation & official documents References

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Longitudinal Data System


Purpose:
12 Required Elements:
1. An unique identifier for every student that does not permit a student to be individually identified (except as permitted by federal and state law); 2. The school enrollment history, demographic characteristics, and program participation record of every student; 3. Information on when a student enrolls, transfers, drops out, or graduates from a school; 4. Students scores on tests required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; 5. Information on students who are not tested, by grade and subject. 6. Students scores on tests measuring whether theyre ready for college; 7. A way to identify teachers and to match teachers to their students; 8. Information from students transcripts, specifically courses taken and grades earned; 9. Data on students success in college, including whether they enrolled in remedial courses; 10. Data on whether K-12 students are prepared to succeed in college; 11. A system of auditing data for quality, validity, and reliability; and 12. The ability to share data from preschool through postsecondary education data systems. With such comprehensive data systems, states will be able to monitor their reforms and make specific changes to advance them. These data systems will capture data on students from one grade to the next, measuring whether they are on track to graduate and telling K-12 schools whether they are preparing their students to succeed in college and the workforce. The data systems also can help identify teachers who are succeeding so states can reward them, and find teachers who are struggling and help them improve. A request for applications is being published in the Federal Register and will be available on www.ed.gov.

The program provides grants to states to design, develop, and implement statewide P-20 longitudinal data systems to capture, analyze, and use student data from preschool to high school, college, and the workforce.

Program Requirements:
Since it started in fiscal year 2005, the program has awarded grants worth $265 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia. The Recovery Act competition requires that the data systems have the capacity to link preschool, K-12, and postsecondary education as well as workforce data. To receive State Fiscal Stabilization Funds, a state must provide an assurance that it will establish a longitudinal data system that includes the 12 elements described in the America COMPETES Act, and any data system developed with Statewide longitudinal data system funds must include at least 12 elements.

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Longitudinal Data System/RTTT Requirement


Priority 4: Invitational Priority Expansion and Adaptation of Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
The Secretary is also particularly interested in applications in which States propose working together to adapt one States statewide longitudinal data system so that it may be used, in whole or in part, by one or more other States, rather than having each State build or continue building such systems independently.

The Secretary is particularly interested in applications in which the State plans to expand statewide longitudinal data systems to include or integrate data from special education programs, English language learner programs,1 early childhood programs, at-risk and dropout prevention programs, and school climate and culture programs, as well as information on student mobility, human resources (i.e., information on teachers, principals, and other staff), school finance, student health, postsecondary education, and other relevant areas, with the purpose of connecting and coordinating all parts of the system to allow important questions related to policy, practice, or overall effectiveness to be asked, answered, and incorporated into effective continuous improvement Practices.
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Longitudinal Data System/RTTT Data Distribution

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Dr. Gary Thompson/Concerns on Privacy


CCSS testing policies that have not been addressed by the Common Core to States Governors, State Superintendents, State School Boards, local school district superintendents, local school boards, to parents of children in public school education: What types of tests will be utilized on our children. Does not address, specifically, exactly who is developing these tests. Does not address the fact that these tests have not yet been developed, and are not available for public consumption or private review by clinical psychology researchers and psychometric professionals. Does not address if the soon to be completed tests will be subjected to the same rigorous peer review process that ALL testing instruments are subjected to prior to being released to mental health professionals for their use in the private sector. Does not state which public school employees would be administering or interpreting these tests. There is a reason that School Psychologists cannot practice outside of their scope in school districts. As hard working and as wonderful as this group is, their training pales in comparison to the average local clinical psychologist. Does not address the well documented, peer-reviewed fact that both African American and Latino students, due to cultural issues, tend to have skewed testing results when cultural issues are not addressed prior to the initiation of such testing. This should probably be addressed if these results are going to be following a student from cradle to high school graduation. Once these highly intimate, powerful, and most likely inaccurate testing results are completed, who EXACTLY will have access to all of this data? Common Core DOES address this issue.
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Resources
HTTP://CEDS.ED.GOV PROMOTING GRIT, TENACITY, & PERSEVERANCE: CRITICAL FACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, FEBRUARY 2013, US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

www.truthinamericaneducation.com www.StopCommonCore.com www.rightsidenews.com/2013031632175/life-and-science/health-andeducation/marxism-in-education-the-infiltration-of-our-school-systems-bythe-common-core-standards.html http://wheresthemath.com http://pioneerinstitute.org The Road to a National Curriculum- The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers A Pioneer Institute White Paper, By Robert S. Eitel & Kent D. Talbert. February 2012. Issue #81 http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20130318/NEWS/303180181/EXCLUSIVETesting-requires-computers-some-schools-can-tafford?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1 http://www.indystar.com/article/20130319/OPINION/303190058 http://commoncorefacts.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-can-i-do.html http://www2.ed.gov 4/24/2013 T.C. Eshelman 724.331.0256 Traci.Ramey@gmail.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/13/former-

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Legislation, Resolutions and Letters to Dept Ed Regarding Common Core


Ohio Amendment to De-Fund Common Core in Budget 59 (passed!) Michigan Amendment to Budget to De-Fund Common Core (passed!) Michigan HB 4276 Alabama HB 254 Alabama SB 190 Sen. Grassley Letter to Investigate CC Georgia SB 167 Missouri Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-3) letter to Sec. Arne Duncan with grave concerns on privacy and loss of local control NSBA Bill: Local School Board Governance & Flexibility Act, HR 1386 RNC Resolution Concerning Common Core Texas Ed Commissioner Blasts Common Core in Let to Senate

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MI Bill HB4276 changes 1976 PA 451, entitled The revised school code, by amending section 1278 (MCL 380.1278), as amended by 2004 PA 596, and by adding section 1278c. On February 19, 2013, the bill was introduced by Representatives McMillin, Hooker, McBroom, Somerville and Howrylak and referred to the Committee on Education. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1278 (MCL 380.1278) The State Board Model Core Academic

Michigan HB 4276

Curriculum content standards shall not be based upon the Common Core Standards described in Section 1278C.
AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1278C (MCL 380.1278) - (1) The State Board and the Department

shall not implement the Common Core Standards promoted by the Common Core Standards Initiative coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The State Board shall take the necessary action to rescind the State Boards adoption of those Common Core Standards, which occurred on June 15, 2010, and to discontinue any assessments aligned to those Common Core Standards. (2) After the effective date of this section, the State Board or any other state official or agency shall not participate in the Common Core State Standards initiative described in Subsection (1). (3) The State Board shall ensure that the State Board Model Core Academic Curriculum Content Standards under Section 1278 and the subject area content expectations that apply to the credit requirements of the Michigan Merit Standard under Sections 1278A and 1278 are not based upon the Common Core Standards described in Subsection (1).
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Alabama House Bill HB 254

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Funds appropriated in Part 1 (MDEs full budget) shall not be used to fund the Common Core State Standards Initiative or Smarter Balanced Assessments. Funds shall not be used to implement programs or student assessments created by the Common Core State Standards Initiative or Smarter Balance Assessments.
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Michigan House Budget Amendment

Missouri House Bill HB 254

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Missouri House Bill HB 254

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Missouri House Bill HB 254

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Alabama SB190

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Indiana Senate Bill No. 193 (PASSED!)

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On March 21, 2013, Rep. Aaron Schock (IL) introduced the Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act, H.R. 1386. Additional original sponsors included Representatives Rodney Davis (IL), Ron Kind (WI), Patrick Meehan (PA), David Valadao (CA), Jim Gerlach (PA), Kevin Cramer (ND), and Kenny Marchant (TX). The bill enjoys the support of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) This bi-partisan bill, Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act, HR 1386, will help rein in the U.S. Department of Educations authority in the absence of federal legislation and ensure that school boards are involved during the implementation of U.S. Department of Education guidelines. H.R. 1386 recognizes the vital role and responsibilities of local school board governance and local school district decision-making in designing, developing and delivering high quality educational services for our nation's schoolchildren. This legislation also ensures that the U.S. Department of Education fulfills its role as a policy implementer rather than a policy-maker, and performs that role with proper recognition of governance
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NSBA Bill: Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act, H.R. 1386

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RNC RESOLUTION CONCERNING COMMON CORE EDUCATION STANDARDS WHEREAS, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of academic standards, promoted and supported by two private membership organizations, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a method for conforming American students to uniform (one size fits all) achievement goals to make them more competitive in a global marketplace, (1.) and WHEREAS, the NGA and the CCSSO, received tens of millions of dollars from private third parties to advocate for and develop the CCSS strategy, subsequently created the CCSS through a process that was not subject to any freedom of information acts or other sunshine laws, and never piloted the CCSS, and WHEREAS, even though Federal Law prohibits the federalizing of curriculum (2.), the Obama Administration accepted the CCSS plan and used 2009 Stimulus Bill money to reward the states that were most committed to the presidents CCSS agenda; but, they failed to give states, their legislatures and their citizens time to evaluate the CCSS before having to commit to them, and WHEREAS, the NGA and CCSSO in concert with the same corporations developing the CCSS assessments have created new textbooks, digital media and other teaching materials aligned to the standards which must be purchased and adopted by local school districts in order that students may effectively compete on CCSS assessments, and WHEREAS, the CCSS program includes federally funded testing and the collection and sharing of massive amounts of personal student and teacher data, and WHEREAS, the CCSS effectively removes educational choice and competition since all schools and all districts must use Common Core assessments based on the Common Core standards to allow all students to advance in the school system and to advance to higher education pursuits; therefore be it RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee, as stated in the 2012 Republican Party Platform, do not believe in a one size fits all approach to education and support providing broad education choices to parents and children at the State and local level, (p35)(3.), which is best based on a free market approach to education for students to achieve individual excellence; and, be it further RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee recognizes the CCSS for what it is an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children so they will conform to a preconceived normal, and, be it further RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee rejects the collection of personal student data for any non-educational purpose without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child students parent and that it rejects the sharing of such personal data, without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child students parent, with any person or entity other than schools or education agencies within the state, and be it finally RESOLVED, the 2012 Republican Party Platform specifically states the need to repeal the numerous federal regulations which interfere with State and local control of public schools, (p36) (3.); and therefore, the Republican National Committee rejects this CCSS plan which creates and fits the country with a nationwide straitjacket on academic freedom and achievement. References: 1. www.corestandards.org 2. Federal Law 20 USC 1232a-Sec. 1232a. and The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Pub.L. 89-10, 79 Stat. 27, 20 US.C. ch. 70.

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