DALLAS – Common Core advocates shudder as Chuck Norris delivers a series of blows to the standards.

He writes:

(This is Part 5 in a series on the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Read Part 1, Part 2,  Part 3 and Part 4.)

Common Core State Standard, CCSS, advocates love to point out how 45 states and the District of Columbia have voluntarily adopted this new national public school regimen. What they’re not telling you, however, is how federal and state funds were used to muscle their adoption or how expert reviews and efficacy shortfalls have prompted political and educational action in at least 17 of those 45 states (more than 33 percent) to restrict or reverse the tides of CCSS rollout, according to a brand new report in the Huffington Post.

In August, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Oklahoma and Utah withdrew from the assessment groups designing tests for the CCSS. And in September, Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued an executive order restricting Florida’s involvement with the CCSS national assessments because of concerns over federal overreach of the program. Congress.org reported, “Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah are all currently considering full withdrawal with other fiscally conservative states sure to follow.”

CCSS advocates also love to point out that the Standards were “created by the nonpartisan Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents the top education officers in each state, and the National Governors Association.” What they’re not telling you, however, is the evidence I’ve detailed in the first four parts of my series about how the feds have been intricately involved in CCSS creation, funding and rollout from the beginning – something they even tried to adamantly deny for years until late.

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