Pearson $21 Million Contract - Huntsville - Stop Common Core Standards (Enterprise: 2013, house)

[macwell]

Pearson Shocking $21 Million Contract Huntsville Schools |

Editor: The Report Card has published a series of articles pro and con about on the Common Core K-12 Standard now required in 46 states. Diane Ravtich, and Sandra Stotsky well known educational reformers have come out against the Common Core saying. Dr. Stotsky has asserted that the CCS will drive up costs and lower literary and educational standards.

An Alabama official who wished to remain anonymous, sent us a copy of sweeping $21 Million five-year contract between Pearson and the City of Huntsville. Population 180,000. The official was concerned that the there were no competitive bids for the service, and that the contract gave Pearson too much control over the curriculum and the operation of important local functions. The contract gives Pearson a total grip on Hunstville schools because it controls student content, teacher training, the Information Technology Platform, and apparently testing.



Huntsville superintendent speaks out against bill that would nix common core standards in Alabama | al.com

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Huntsville Superintendent Casey Wardynski on Thursday spoke out against a proposed bill that would repeal the state's adoption of the Common Core State Standards for curriculum and limit how student data is shared and used.

That includes about $40 million in digital textbooks and curriculum. "We would have to stop using what we have, and we don't have anything else," Wardynski said.

"Everything we do in Huntsville is based on longitudinal data," he said.




Alabama Leads by Repealing Common Core (HB254/SB190) - Geek Palaver

Alabama Leads by Repealing Common Core (HB254/SB190)

On February 12th, the Alabama House (HB254) and Senate (SB190) Republicans introduced a bill that would repeal the Common Core State Standards Initiative by prohibiting the Alabama State Department of Education from adopting the Common Core and end the collection and sharing of data on students and teachers except in specific circumstances. On February 21st, Dr. Wardynski said that this bill (which no one “consulted” with him on, poor little guy) would make “everything we’re doing illegal.” He was complaining that the district’s curriculum would have to change (which he said costs $40 million dollars over the past two year), and perhaps most importantly that the bill would require them to no longer “collect and retain longitudinal data on students” meaning that they would have to stop using the STAR Enterprise test to track student growth.

Wow. That just sound terrible, doesn’t it?



Alabama Leads by Repealing Common Core (HB254/SB190) - Geek Palaver
HB254/SB190

Let’s take a quick look at the bill. (At present the two bills are identical. That may change as the House and Senate begin to make modifications.) You may download copies of the bills to read for yourself (HB254 and SP190).



Action for Repeal of Common Core - Rainy Day Patriots
Stop Common Core - Alabama



Michelle Malkin » Rotten to the Core: The Feds’ Invasive Student Tracking Database

Say goodbye to your children’s privacy. Say hello to an unprecedented nationwide student tracking system, whose data will apparently be sold by government officials to the highest bidders. It’s yet another encroachment of centralized education bureaucrats on local control and parental rights under the banner of “Common Core.”

As the American Principles Project, a conservative education think tank, reported last year, Common Core’s technological project is “merely one part of a much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from birth through their participation in the workforce.” The 2009 porkulus package included a “State Fiscal Stabilization Fund” to bribe states into constructing “longitudinal data systems (LDS) to collect data on public-school students.”

These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data — health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wide variety of public agencies

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Will Common Core Allow Pearson to Dictate Curriculum?


The Battle Against Common Core Standards | FreedomWorks

[LCTMadison]

Ugh. Well, my admiration for Dr. Wardynski is fast fading over his stand on Common Core.

I'm just glad my son is nearly done....I feel for the parents of young children in this country in the years ahead.

Blood types? Seriously? I am nearly 40 and I don't even know my own blood type, why the heck do schools need to collect that?

The blogger's comments below the Pearson article are almost better than the article.

[FatTails]

I do believe education should be (mostly) handled at the local level since a one size fits all solution doesn't work across a nation as diverse as ours. However, I will say that the mother of all databases idea is a little far fetched in my opinion. Schools aren't even allowed to ask your residency or citizenship, so I don't see how a database can be created with things like religious affiliation and blood type.

[Topperoon]

Originally Posted by nerdtron

I do believe education should be (mostly) handled at the local level since a one size fits all solution doesn't work across a nation as diverse as ours. However, I will say that the mother of all databases idea is a little far fetched in my opinion. Schools aren't even allowed to ask your residency or citizenship, so I don't see how a database can be created with things like religious affiliation and blood type.

Obamacare was far fetched, the continued debt of this country, no budget for over 4 years (list goes on) ..back to far fetched Obamacare... go 'try' read it and find all the "wellness" collected data on people and continued database collection/registries referenced.. CVS is just the beginning of 'requirements' due to Obamacare.. Hitler was far fetched..

[macwell]

Common core repeal vote is 'an unexpected detour,' Bice says (poll) | al.com

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In a split decision, the Senate Education Committee reversed its position on the common core Wednesday, approving a virtually identical bill to the one it rejected the month before.

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[pennquaker09]

Michelle Malkin is not someone I would willingly refer to. She is, to be frank, loony.