Common Core Update

Citizens are being alerted by watchdog organizations about an Orange County Board of Education meeting on Thurs., Sept. 12, 8:00 a.m., 200 Kalmus Drive, Costa Mesa.

The OC Board of Education has asked staff to present their findings on Common Core and answer the board’s questions.

Watchdogs urge the public to inform the board about concerns regarding Common Core. Those who wish to address the board can fill out a card and speak for up to three minutes.

Leaders of Common Core Concerned Citizens and Eagle Forum of California have identified some of the reasons parents, teachers, school administrators and taxpayers oppose the adoption of a federal education program.

• Curriculum is academically weak
• Math is mediocre and two years behind other countries
• Extreme leftist indoctrination has been included
• Critical thinking isn’t encouraged
• Deliberate dumbing down of American education is obvious
• Students’ and their parents’ personal information is collected
• Takes away local control
• Undermines parents’ control of their children’s education
• The program is a federal takeover of education
• Unfair burdens are placed on taxpayers
• Exorbitant cost -- $1.6 billion in California
• $16 billion to implement Common Core in the United States
• Aligning of SAT and Common Core would impact private school and home-schoolers

Orange County still has the opportunity to stop this assault on education. For additional information, visit websites: http://www.cuacc.org, http://tinyurl.com/NComC , http://www.edlibertywatch.org