With Georgia students taking their first tests tied to a “Common Core” of national academic standards in English and math, a number of conservatives want the state to reconsider its decision to adhere to those standards.
Looking to make sure Georgia students are on par with their counterparts across the country, political and education officials here decided in 2010 to embrace the new standards, which are based, in part, on standards the state had already moved toward. Some have criticized the new standards as a sort of nationalization of public education that steps on state prerogatives, and they say they fear it will lead to curriculum changes driven by the federal government.
The fight over the standards that some critics liken to President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care initiative, calling it “ObamaCore,” recently led the Cobb County School Board to reject new math textbooks for the district’s students.
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