CHARLESTON, W. Va. – West Virginia could be the next state to drop the federally incentivized Common Core national standards initiative.

Republican leaders are looking to change union-related prevailing wage laws as well as end the ban on charter schools but they also want to tackle Common Core.

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“We will repeal Common Core,” Delegate Amanda Pasdon, R-Monongalia, tells the Charleston Daily Mail. “The public is demanding that, and we have to respect their needs and wishes.”

The paper reports:

Spurred in part by months of public outcry in communities around the state, members of the House of Delegates and state Senate say the question of whether a repeal of the education standards will pass both houses isn’t a matter of if, but when. …

After they were released, the U.S. Department of Education supported the standards and, with the help of President Barack Obama, offered $4.3 billion in competitive grants to adopting states.

Despite receiving no grant money, West Virginia was the second state to adopt the standards. The state school board voted to do so in 2010 after Department of Education officials retooled and renamed them the Next Generation Content Standards.

Republican state Sen. Donna Boley has been trying to repeal the standards for years, and “the Republican takeover in both chambers of the Legislature may finally give those critics the needed votes,” the paper reports.