OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – More than 200 parents, teachers and taxpayers flooded the halls of the Oklahoma State Capitol holding yellow signs saying merely, “HEAR THE BILLS.”

Every year since 2011, a single bill to stop the Common Core State Standards has been introduced into the Oklahoma legislature from the House. Every year, House Common Education Committee Chair, Ann Coody has blocked the bill from a hearing, and every year, Senator John Ford, Chair of the Senate Education Committee, has made it known he would hear no bills relating to a repeal of Common Core in his committee.

This year, 7 bills were introduced into the Oklahoma legislature to pause or repeal the Common Core State Standards. From the beginning of the session, citizens have implored Senator Ford to hear these bills yet Senator Ford has remained dogged in his insistence to deny any and all a hearing.

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Oklahomans, frustrated at being denied a voice in their government, filled to capacity the committee room in which the Senate Education Committee convened at 9am, and stood 2 and 3 deep in the corridor leading into the chamber, saying nothing – simply holding their signs.

The two Senate-authored Common Core bills are not currently on the agenda for the last Senate Education Committee meeting, Monday, February, 24th. Three bills still exist on the House side, one of which has passed Committee and is awaiting assignment to the Floor Calendar.