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It wasn't "top-down" - it came out of the states. http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/0812BENCHMARKING.PDF

[b]And the only reason it became "political" is because ignorant right wing assholes who have for years been pushing for deregulation and small government have been deceiving the masses into believing that this is a "top down" push[/b], likening it to ObamaCare for Education, desperately trying to drive hatred by spreading lies and trying to tie it to the Obama administration when in fact a.) NCLB and Common Core PREDATE the Obama Administration and b.) COMMON CORE AND PARCC ARE STATE INITIATIVES.

[b]Those are the facts[/b], which refute pretty much everything you say and everything you stand for. [/quote]

LOL!  Facts?  Really?

I am not the PP, but yes, facts, really. These are facts:

1. There is plenty of talk about "ObamaCore".
2. There is plenty of right-wing funding against the Common Core.
3. The major political opposition to the Common Core standards comes from Republicans (see, for example, the House bill on NCLB: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-threatens-to-veto-gop-effort-to-overhaul-no-child-left-behind/2015/02/25/13766340-bd39-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html )
3. NCLB is from 2001, when George W. Bush was president.
4. Work on the Common Core standards started before Obama was elected.
5. The Common Core standards were a state initiative.
6. The PARCC (and Smarter Balanced and individual state) tests are state initiatives.

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