The Marietta Daily Journal – Common Core off to rocky start in Ga

The controversy continues over Common Core educational standards with the prospect of a fight in the General Assembly over Georgia’s participation in the program.

The standards were quietly accepted under former Gov. Sonny Perdue’s administration without a vote of the Legislature, which represents the people at the local level. Some say it was the federal “Race to the Top” funds dangled by the Obama administration that proved too enticing to pass up.

Gov. Nathan Deal picked up where Perdue left off in supporting the first-ever national education standards and accepting the federal funds that were attached to them.

Opposition to Common Core has been building at the grassroots level ever since, citing mostly a lessening of local control over education, while proponents have focuses on the need for national standards across the 50 states.

The opposing views were presented last week in two separate meetings in Cobb County.

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Common Core off to rocky start in Ga.