CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Common Core national education standards are circling the drain in West Virginia.

After lawmakers nearly repealed the standards this spring, a new MetroNews West Virginia Poll shows most West Virginians don’t like Common Core, which is rebranded in the Mountain State as Next Education.

West Virginia House Education Committee Chairwoman Amanda Pasdon told the media after the House voted to repeal Common Core in March that “the overwhelming majority of West Virginians do not support Common Core standards and our students deserve better.”

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The poll numbers show she’s correct: 65 percent of residents who have heard of Common Core have a “very negative” or “somewhat negative” impression.

MetroNews points out the public perception contrasts with a national Gallup poll in April 2014 that found only 19 percent of folks viewed Common Core negatively.

“There’s no question overall, there is more negativity, about two-thirds of respondents are negative toward Common Core in this state,” said pollster Rex Repass, who organized the MetroNews poll.

Liberals were more inclined to support the standards, though a clear majority still opposed Common Core overall.

“Roughly 45 percent in favor, essentially, and about 54 percent negative,” Repass said. “Even among those who are more likely to be supportive of Common Core.”

This year’s legislation to kill Common Core in West Virginia died in the state Senate, but both House Speaker Tim Armstead and Senate President Bill Cole recently vowed to get the job done during the next legislative session.

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“We have too many people in the state, in the legislature, both parties, people who work in the school systems and I just hear horror story after horror story after horror story,” Cole told the news site.

Meanwhile, State Superintendent Michael Martirano has stood by the standards, which were implemented before he took office, while also calling for a more thorough public review of Common Core.

“The standards are the foundation and the bedrock of our educational delivery model. We want to make sure everybody understands the importance of those. They have to be right and they have to be strong,” Martirano said.

In a Joint Standing Committee on Education meeting Monday Martirano said the Department of Education is facing a “monumental task” of sifting through 220,000 comments about Common Core left on its website during a public comment period that ends this month, according to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph.

He plans to make a recommendation to the state board of education that will be available in November.

The Telegraph reports only West Virginia’s fifth-graders managed to crack a proficiency score in English and mathematics under the Common Core standards last year.

Nationally, ACT and SAT scores have also lid under Common Core.

Recent figures released by the College Board show mean SAT scores dropped from 497 to 495 in critical reading, 513 to 511 in math, and 487 to 484 in writing between 2014 and 2015, Education Week reports.

The SAT measures college readiness, the supposed goal of Common Core, with a composite score of 1550, and the percentage of students meeting that mark has slid from about 43 percent to less than 42 percent between 2012 and 2015, according to the site.