In a political compromise, critics of the Common Core standards got legislation that takes a symbolic swipe at the system without fundamentally changing state policy. As a practical matter, Georgia adopted the standards in 2010 and local educators have spent time and money building new curriculum around them. State lawmakers heard as much when they spoke with teacher before the start of the legislative session.
“They got an earful from a lot of educators saying, ‘Listen, don’t yank the rug out from under us because there’s a political tussle going on,’” said Tim Callahan, a spokesman for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators, a teachers’ lobbying group.
The legislation technically bans state officials from adopting standards prescribed by the federal government or other organizations going forward. It will have no effect on the 2010 decision by Georgia’s Board of Education to make the Common Core standards as the state’s own. And the U.S. government never required that states use the standards, though it did encourage their development and adoption.
via The Marietta Daily Journal – Georgia politicians rip national education standards.
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