The Marietta Daily Journal – Sen Tippins speaks on curriculum issue before school board meeting

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Sen Tippins speaks on curriculum issue before school board meeting.

The MDJ just caught up with state Sen. Lindsey Tippins (R-Marietta), chairman of the Senate Education Committee and a former chairman of the Cobb Board of Education, asking him what he thought about tonight’s school board vote to approve a multi-million dollar purchase of math textbooks that are part of the controversial Common Core Standards.

Tippins, who has grave concerns about Common Core, said the following: “I believe 100 percent in the right of the board to do as they see fit. Probably if I were sitting on the board my opinion would be if I was faced with this and the pushback had arisen that has arisen on this I would probably vote to table it and discuss it for either two weeks or four weeks.”