via The Marietta Daily Journal – Textbooks rejected Board votes against books tied to Common Core.
A spirited crowd applauded and cheered as the Cobb County School Board voted down a request by the district to purchase $7.5 million in math resources for next school year.
The board was considering buying more than 73,000 math materials, which included teaching booklets, hardback books and online resources for students in kindergarten through 12th grades, to be bought with SPLOST III funds.
This purchase fell in line with the state’s adoption of the Core Curriculum Standards in 2010.The agenda items were listed as two separate items — one for elementary and middle school students and the second for high school students — and the board spent about two hours discussing them.
Board members who voted against buying the materials were Kathleen Angelucci, Tim Stultz, Randy Scamihorn and Brad Wheeler.Angelucci questioned the purchases because of their association with Common Core Standards, a curriculum that has been adopted by 45 states nationally.
She argued that many states are looking at getting rid of these standards for a number of reasons, and Georgia legislators were looking at doing the same with the introduction of House Bill 167, which was withdrawn this past session.
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