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    INVITED MEDIA ONLY AT TENNESSEE COMMON CORE EVENT FEATURING JEB BUSH AND SEN. LAMAR A

    INVITED MEDIA ONLY AT TENNESSEE COMMON CORE EVENT FEATURING JEB BUSH AND SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER

    by DR. SUSAN BERRY
    20 Mar 2014


    Avid Common Core supporter and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) met in Nashville Wednesday with U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Gov. Bill Haslam (R-TN), for a roundtable discussion that was sponsored by the pro-Common Core Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Tennessee Business Roundtable.

    The event, which was held at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, was closed to the general public and available only to invited guests and media. The invitation announced the title of the event as “Tennessee’s Jobs Plan: Education, Graduation, Career Readiness.”

    Breitbart News called the event's press contact, Elizabeth Duffey, several hours before the event about attending but the call was not returned.

    According to the Associated Press, Bush urged state officials to press on with the Common Core Standards despite what he referred to as an “avalanche” of criticism from opponents. He said that the standards were essential to improving educational achievement in the nation.

    “This is a real-world, grown-up approach to a real crisis that we have,” Bush said. “And it’s been mired in politics."

    “Trust me I know,” he added. “There are not a whole lot of people who are standing up to this avalanche.”

    Bush ascribed the criticism of Common Core to “myths” that the standards are part of a federal takeover of education.

    “I know it’s hard when you go back to your districts when you hear these things,” he said. “You’ve got to stay the course on higher standards and higher expectations.”

    In contrast to appearing at the pro-Common Core event with Bush, Alexander, a former governor of Tennessee and U.S. education secretary, has both voiced support for education initiatives that are state-led, and also introduced measures that seek to keep federal waiver decisions from being contingent upon participation in initiatives like Common Core.

    “Washington, D.C. should keep its sticky fingers off state education standards,” he said.

    Common Core critics note the standards have never been tested or proven to make American students globally competitive, as supporters argue. For example, the standards have never been internationally “benchmarked.” No one knows if the standards are “rigorous,” for the very same reason: they have never been tested or proven.

    The Common Core K-12 standards were developed by three private organizations in Washington D.C.: the National Governors Association (NGA), the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and progressive education company Achieve Inc. All three organizations were privately funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

    There is no official information about who selected the individuals to write the Common Core standards. However, none of the writers of the math and English Language Arts standards have ever taught math, English, or reading at the K-12 level. In addition, the Standards Development Work Groups did not include any members who were high school English and mathematics teachers, English professors, scientists, engineers, parents, state legislators, early childhood educators, and state or local school board members.

    Bush’s visit to Nashville comes as Common Core supporters--many of them Republicans--are stepping up an intense national campaign to salvage the standards from extreme criticism by grassroots groups of parents, students, teachers, and taxpayers.

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which last year received $1.3 million in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote the Common Core, has launched an ad campaign with other business groups. At the same time, Gates, who has spent upwards of $170 million on implementation of the initiative, has been interviewed on national television to defend the controversial standards.

    As Breitbart News reported Wednesday morning, the roundtable event comes in the midst of a fierce battle in the Tennessee General Assembly over the Common Core standards. The state House voted last week, 82-11, to delay the controversial standards for two years through the use of a parliamentary procedure, despite Gov. Haslam’s warning to his GOP colleagues that repealing or delaying the standards would be “exactly the wrong thing to do.”

    The vote was considered to be a rebuke of Haslam and Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, who have argued that Tennessee must move forward with the Common Core standards in order to keep up with other states. Haslam told state lawmakers that a repeal or delay of the standards “would be a disruptive and costly endeavor for the state as well as the districts, schools and teachers that have been implementing the standards for some time.”

    For his part, Haslam quickly put together a tour of school visits around the state to create some support for the Common Core initiative.

    On Monday, Tennessee’s state Senate was less enthusiastic about delaying the standards’ implementation than the House. The Senate addressed the state’s sovereignty over education standards, the privacy of student data collected, the state’s textbook commission, and the need for public hearings prior to the adoption of Common Core standards in additional subject areas, such as science and social studies.

    State Senate leader Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey (R), however, had no interest in delaying the Common Core standards.

    On WWTN’s Nashville’s Morning News with Ralph Bristol, which was guest hosted by state Sen. Jack Johnson (R), Ramsey expressed his displeasure with the House’s vote to delay the standards in Tennessee.
    Ramsey accused House members of taking a bill to ensure Tennessee students learn about the Constitution and “loading it up like a Christmas tree” with amendments about the Common Core standards. He said procedures like that would never have happened in the state Senate.

    The lieutenant governor added that Tennessee has “made great strides” with education within the recent year, “and just to punt and say, ‘Oh, gosh, we’ve got a problem here, we don’t like this, let’s just put this off for two years,’ that is not contributing to making things better.”
    Ramsey also charged that the state House’s vote to delay Common Core is “playing right into the union’s hands.”

    “What does the union want? They want it delayed,” he asserted. “So that gives them time to work behind the scenes to try to kill the tenure reform that we put in place, and the new evaluations.”

    Ramsey said that he admits that “Common Core has problems, there’s things that I don’t agree with,” but added, “There are ways to address this. You look at what other states have done - Jeb Bush was just here yesterday - and in Florida, they adopted their own standards, and called them Florida standards, and that’s perfectly okay with me.”

    Facing strident criticisms, several states have moved to change the name of the program.

    As Breitbart News reported in February, the state of Florida dropped the name “Common Core” and replaced it with another name, “the Florida Standards.”

    Similarly, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) used an executive order to delete the words “Common Core” from the standards in her state and replace them with “Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards.” Iowa, too, renamed the Common Core Standards as “The Iowa Core.”
    The “rebranding” came at the urging of Common Core supporter Mike Huckabee, former Republican Arkansas governor and Fox News host, who, while speaking at a CCSSO conference last fall, acknowledged that Common Core had become “toxic,” and encouraged state school officers to “rebrand it, refocus it, but don’t retreat.”

    Breitbart News reached out to Ramsey’s office for further comment, in particular to ask him to specify which “problems” he actually had with Common Core, but received no return phone call.

    “The tide is beginning to turn against Common Core in Tennessee and it was my hope that Senator Alexander would join conservatives and help us work to defeat it,” said state Rep. Joe Carr (R), who is challenging Sen.

    Lamar Alexander in his reelection bid. “Instead, it appears Senator Alexander is once again joining with the political establishment, this time fighting to save Common Core.”

    In an interview with Breitbart News, Carr commented on Ramsey’s remarks on WWTN earlier in the day.

    Regarding Ramsey’s charge that the state House’s procedure to pass the delay of the Common Core standards was inappropriate, Carr defended the House’s move.

    “The House responded to the people in an overwhelming vote of 82-11,” he asserted. “The House is listening to the people, and the voters don’t want D.C.-style education that looks like ObamaCare. We don’t want a federalized education program when D.C. is so broken itself. It’s up to the states to decide education. The House responded to the will of the people.”

    Carr compared the idea of changing the name of the Common Core standards, as was done in Florida, to what public reaction would be to simply changing the name of ObamaCare.

    “ObamaCare is the result of an unholy alliance between government and the insurance companies,” he said. “Common Core is the result of the same between government and The U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Changing the name does nothing.”

    With regard to Ramsey’s accusation that, by delaying Common Core for two years the state House was simply playing into the hands of the teachers’ unions, Carr said, “The lieutenant governor is flat out wrong.”
    “I’ve never met a teacher who’s opposed to being evaluated,” he continued. “But the Common Core standards and the PARCC tests are unproven. There’s no research behind them. Teachers are opposed to being evaluated based upon unproven tests aligned with these controversial standards.”

    Carr added that he was “shocked” at Ramsey’s comments because “the lieutenant governor had once been a strong opponent of Common Core.”

    “With his attack on the House, I can only believe he’s carrying the water for the governor and the Chamber of Commerce,” Carr said. “Ramsey has had a strong history of conservative values, so I’m shocked at this change.”

    “But the battle is not over,” Carr told Breitbart News. “We are not deterred. Common Core is not good for children, parents, teachers, and the state of Tennessee.”

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    Another Bush Rino heard from, currently he is at the top for president in the polls, if this is the best our country can offer we're in deep trouble.
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    In contrast to appearing at the pro-Common Core event with Bush, Alexander, a former governor of Tennessee and U.S. education secretary, has both voiced support for education initiatives that are state-led, and also introduced measures that seek to keep federal waiver decisions from being contingent upon participation in initiatives like Common Core.

    “Washington, D.C. should keep its sticky fingers off state education standards,” he said.
    It appears that Alexander is in campaign mode.

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    Jeb "My Brother Collapsed the ENTIRE U.S. Economy" Bush is a huge backer and PUSHER of Commoncore... Mom's, you better get busy; you do NOT want this LUNATIC in charge of your children

    As a Side bar: Jeb Bush and Charlie Christ DESTROYED Florida; your state may be in a Recession; Florida collapsed into a Depression from these 2 LUNATICS Actions

    Go ahead and put this man in charge of the Entire U.S. Economy... I dare ya
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    ommon Core workbook assignment on 2nd Amendment
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    This photo was taken directly from a common core workbook!






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    this is the kind of SHIT that Jeb Bush is Pushing onto your kids
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    Jeb Bush Praises Illegal Aliens as ‘Risk Takers’

    (Breitbart) – In a speech Friday, Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised illegal immigrants as “risk takers” who embody the entrepreneurial spirit of America and doubled down on his defense of Common Core.
    According to the Miami-Herald, Bush made his remarks in front of business leaders in Florida.
    “People who come here legally and illegally are the risk takers,” Bush reportedly said. “If you’re living in a rural area of Guatemala and you come, you’re a bigger risk taker than those who stay,” he added.

    FAX BLAST SPECIAL: NO AMNESTY for Illegals!

    Of course, the first action of those who come to the country illegally is breaking the law.
    Bush also said he was the “Eat Your Broccoli Governor” and implied he would be telling conservatives to embrace policies like amnesty and Common Core, which is reminiscent of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman’s all-in approach to global warming during his failed 2012 presidential campaign.
    Bush accused those opposed to the Common Core as embracing the “status quo.”
    “You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: The one that worries about how they feel, or the one that worries about making sure the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody’s lunch?” Bush stated.
    Speculation has intensified about whether Jeb Bush will become the third person in his family to seek the White House. A Reuters report recently indicated that he was giving a 2016 candidacy “a serious look,” and UVA ranked him as the top GOP presidential contender on paper.
    Conservatives, however, distrust him on issues like amnesty, Common Core, and crony capitalism. As Breitbart News has reported, though Bush may be the establishment’s new top choice, a national Washington Post-ABC News poll found that half the country would “definitely” not vote for Bush in a general election, “which may greatly undercut the electability argument that all establishment candidates and their backers like to tout to the mainstream press.”

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    JEB BUSH PRAISES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS 'RISK TAKERS,' DEFENDS COMMON CORE



    by TONY LEE 21 Mar 2014, 12:39 PM PDT 1077 POST A COMMENT
    In a speech Friday, Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised illegal immigrants as "risk takers" who embody the entrepreneurial spirit of America and doubled down on his defense of Common Core.

    According to the Miami-Herald, Bush made his remarks in front of business leaders in Florida.
    “People who come here legally and illegally are the risk takers,” Bush reportedly said. “If you’re living in a rural area of Guatemala and you come, you’re a bigger risk taker than those who stay,” he added.
    Of course, the first action of those who come to the country illegally is breaking the law.
    Bush also said he was the "Eat Your Broccoli Governor" and implied he would be telling conservatives to embrace policies like amnesty and Common Core, which is reminiscent of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman's all-in approach to global warming during his failed 2012 presidential campaign.
    Bush accused those opposed to the Common Core as embracing the "status quo."

    “You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: The one that worries about how they feel, or the one that worries about making sure the next generation has the capacity to eat everybody’s lunch?” Bush stated.
    Speculation has intensified about whether Jeb Bush will become the third person in his family to seek the White House. A Reuters report recently indicated that he was giving a 2016 candidacy "a serious look," and UVA ranked him as the top GOP presidential contender on paper.
    Conservatives, however, distrust him on issues like amnesty, Common Core, and crony capitalism. As Breitbart News has reported, though Bush may be the establishment's new top choice, a national Washington Post-ABC News poll found that half the country would "definitely" not vote for Bush in a general election, "which may greatly undercut the electability argument that all establishment candidates and their backers like to tout to the mainstream press."

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    Get To Know the Common Core Marketing Overlords



    Written By : Michelle Malkin
    March 21, 2014

    They’re everywhere. Turn on Fox News, local news, Animal Planet, HGTV, The Family Channel or talk radio. Pro-Common Core commercials have been airing ad nauseam in a desperate attempt to persuade American families to support the beleaguered federal education standards/testing/technology racket. Who’s funding these public relations pushes? D.C. lobbyists, entrenched politicians and Big Business interests.

    The foundational myth of Common Core is that it’s a “state-led” initiative with grassroots support that was crafted by local educators for the good of all of our children. But the cash and power behind the new ad campaign tell you all you need to know. For parents in the know, this will be a refresher course. But repeated lies must be countered with redoubled truths.

    The Bipartisan Policy Center is one of the leading Common Core ad sponsors. It’s a self-described nonprofit “think tank” founded by a pantheon of Beltway barnacles: former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell.

    “Lobbying tank” would be more accurate. The BPC’s “senior fellows” include K Street influence peddlers such as liberal Republican Robert Bennett, the big-spending Utah senator-turned-lobbyist booted from office by tea party conservatives; former Democratic Agriculture Secretary and House member-turned-lobbyist Dan Glickman; and liberal Democrat Byron Dorgan, the former North Dakota senator who crusaded as an anti-D.C. lobbying populist before retiring from office to work as, you guessed it, a D.C. lobbyist.

    Jeb Bush’s “Foundation for Excellence in Education” is also saturating the airwaves with ads trying to salvage Common Core in the face of truly bipartisan, truly grassroots opposition in his own home state of Florida. As I’ve reported previously, the former GOP governor’s foundation is tied at the hip to the federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers), which pulled in $186 million through the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program to develop Common Core tests.

    One of the Bush foundation’s top corporate sponsors is Pearson, the multibillion-dollar educational publishing and testing conglomerate.

    Pearson snagged $23 million in contracts to design the first wave of PARCC test items and $1 billion for overpriced, insecure Common Core iPads purchased by the Los Angeles Unified School District, and is leading the $13.4 billion edutech cash-in catalyzed by Common Core’s technology mandates.

    In December, you should know, the state of New York determined that Pearson’s nonprofit foundation had abused the law by siphoning charitable assets to benefit its for-profit arm in order to curry favor with the Common Core-peddling Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Pearson paid a $7.7 million settlement after the attorney general concluded that the company’s charitable arm was marketing Common Core course material it believed could be sold by the for-profit side for “tens of millions of dollars.” After being smoked out, the Pearson Foundation sold the courses to its corporate sibling for $15.1 million.

    Then there’s the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has joined the Clintonite-stocked Center for American Progress to promote Common Core and has earmarked more than $52 million on D.C. lobbying efforts.

    Two D.C. trade associations, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, continue to rubber-stamp Common Core propaganda. They are both recipients of tens of millions of dollars in Gates Foundation money. NGA employed Democratic education wonk Dane Linn to help shepherd through the standards; Linn now flacks for Common Core at the D.C.-based Business Roundtable lobbying shop, another leading sponsor of the ads now bombarding your TVs and radios.

    Despite its misleading name, the NGA does not represent all of the nation’s governors, holds only nonbinding resolution votes, and serves primarily as an “unelected, unrepresentative networking forum,” as Heartland Institute scholar Joy Pullmann put it, with funding from both taxpayers and private corporations. NGA’s Common Core standards writing meetings were convened in secret and are protected by confidentiality agreements.

    Direct public input was nil. Of the 25 people in the NGA and CCSSO’s two Common Core standards-writing “working groups,” EdWeek blogger Anthony Cody reported in 2009, six were associated with the test-makers from the College Board, five were with fellow test-publishers ACT, and four were with Achieve Inc. Several had zero experience in standards writing.

    Achieve Inc., you may recall from my previous work, is a Washington, D.C., nonprofit stocked with education lobbyists who’ve been working on federal standards schemes since the Clinton years. In fact, Achieve’s president, Michael Cohen, is a veteran Clinton-era educrat who also used to direct education policy for the NGA. In addition to staffing the standards writing committee and acting as lead Common Core coordinating mouthpiece, Achieve Inc. is the “project management partner” of the Common Core-aligned, tax-subsidized PARCC testing conglomerate.

    Who’s behind Achieve? Reminder: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has dumped $37 million into the group since 1999 to promote Common Core. According to a new analysis by former Georgia State University professor Jack Hassard, the Gates Foundation has now doled out an estimated total of $2.3 billion on Common Core-related grants to thousands of recipients in addition to NGA, CCSSO, the Foundation for Excellence in Education and Achieve.

    As they prop up astroturfed front groups and agitprop, D.C.’s Common Core p.r. blitzers scoff at their critics as “black helicopter” theorists.

    Don’t read their lips. Just follow the money. This bipartisan power grab is Washington-led and Washington-fed. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s elementary:

    All Common Core roads lead to K Street.

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