COMMON CORE CONCERNS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW

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National controls will be imposed on educational
standards to which assessments (testing) and
curriculum will be tied.
The PA legislature (our elected officials) was
completely bypassed in the decision to
implement Common Core in PA.
National control will lessen or eliminate influence of parents and
local school boards.
This initiative was not tested prior to implementation;
there is no proof that it will improve educational outcomes.
No complete fiscal analysis was presented publicly or to our state
legislators prior to implementation. Fiscal impacts on state and local
budgets (due to huge unfunded mandates) are speculative at this time.
Excessive focus on assessments will encourage teaching to the
test a practice that is not educationally sound.
Prominent educators disagree as to whether the standards resulting
from this transformational, costly initiative are more or less rigorous
than previous PA standards.
New convoluted teaching methodologies are confusing for students
and make it difficult for parents to help their children with schoolwork.
There will be a governmental student data collection system with
the potential of intruding into students personal lives.

AND LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST THE PRICE TAG!
Initial and continuing costs resulting from the
mandates of this initiative could prove prohibitive
for Pennsylvania taxpayers at a time when we are
already facing severe budgetary problems and an
exploding pension crisis.
10-2014