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There are about 50 million students in the US. $2 billion dollars divided by 50 million students is $40 per student.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372 [/quote]

Get your facts straight.  It does not include testing for those states that did not adopt Common Core.  And, as PP said, it is for "starters".  That ups the ante quite a bit.  Also, it is an ongoing expense.
 
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Complete red herring.  The textbook companies would make at at a minimum the same amount of money regardless of whether we had Common Core or not.  The Common Core opponent PP evidently is living in some naive and bizarre fantasy land where apparently she thinks  textbook ordering only started with Common Core and if only we get rid of Common Core, those companies will stop making all that money because somehow we apparently stop ordering textbooks or something.  It is indeed truly bizarre thinking and seriously warped desperation trying to claim that money is being wasted on companies like Pearson citing those figures.  And in fact, I would argue that in the grand scheme of things, the textbook companies likely make *less* with Common Core, as a.) there are greater economies of scale b.) they can no longer charge one-off premiums as they might given 50 separate, stand-alone state standards and c.) no one textbook company can market itself as having a proprietary competetive advantage since they are all using Common Core as their baseline, and those standards are all published and freely accessible to all publishers.[/quote]

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