MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s top education official says he’s “losing lots of sleep” at the prospect that lawmakers will scuttle the Common Core learning standards in favor homespun ones.

In a new “Call to Action” video message, State Superintendent Tony Evers bemoans the prospect that Wisconsin legislature will okay a plan to create a “Model Academic Standards Board” – comprised of a variety of education experts from across the state – that would recommend the math, science and English standards that are used in the state’s K-12 schools.

The proposed “standards board” would make its recommendations to Evers, who would make his own recommendations to a joint legislative committee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel explains.

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However, if the lawmakers don’t like Evers’ standards – which would almost certainly be the nationalized Common Core standards— the lawmakers could use the board’s recommended standards, instead.

Evers thinks that’s simply way too much democracy, and could lead to the “politicization” of education standards.

“We will have legislators writing standards for our kids in our schools across Wisconsin,” Evers says in the video. “I don’t know how you feel about that … but as a grandfather, I am losing lots of sleep over the idea that somehow legislators on the floor of the Assembly and the Senate will actually be crafting standards for our kids in our schools.”

We kind of hope Evers is experiencing sleepless nights. That’d be good payback for the discomfort and chaos he’s singlehandedly caused for Wisconsin families who are opposed to the one-size-fits-all approach to learning.

The record shows that Evers alone made Wisconsin part of the Common Core experiment on June 2, 2010 – the very day the Common Core standards were officially released.

He did this before the public had a chance to evaluate Common Core and to discover how the standards would affect their kids and their schools. Evers wanted to hustle Common Core into place before any pesky citizens could ask informed questions or raise objections.

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And now he has the audacity to complain that concerned residents – through their elected state representatives – are going to have a say in the matter? What nerve.

Evers is so desperate to stop lawmakers’ “Model Academic Standards Board” that he even resorts to distortions and fear-mongering to win viewers to his cause.

First the distortions.

In his video, Evers says: “We need to stay the course. We need to implement the Common Core State Standards that our teachers and others across the state and the country have worked on so very hard, and are showing good results.”

Those last two claims run counter to the ones National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel made in his recent letter that blasted the “botched” rollout of Common Core and the “malpractice” of linking teachers’ job reviews to students’ test scores.

Van Roekel also hammers Common Core for not including teachers in the evaluation or implementation of the standards.

As for the fear-mongering, Evers is sounding the alarm that allowing lawmakers to replace Common Core with unique state standards could prevent evolution from being taught in Wisconsin schools. He also suggests that dropping out of the Common Core will make the state “a national embarrassment” and could turn business leaders off from hiring poorly trained Wisconsin graduates.

“This is a big step backwards,” Evers warns.

It’s not, of course.

Gov. Scott Walker supports the “standards board” and sees it as an opportunity of creating better standards than the questionable ones contained in the Common Core.

“I think Wisconsin standards should be higher than where the discussion is nationally and I think they should be set by people in Wisconsin and not people outside the state, and I think this offers a mechanism to do that,” Walker told the Journal Sentinel.

Many Wisconsin residents will probably agree that sounds like a good solution to the problems that Evers singlehandedly foisted onto families, schools and taxpayers.