Conservatives and liberals should oppose federal usurpation of power that is known as Common Core State Standards.
The entire history of this education "reform" effort has been one of stealth and deception. In this Townhall column, FRC Senior Fellow Bob Morrison, an official of the federal education department under Ronald Reagan, argues for returning education policymaking to state lawmakers, locally elected school boards, and parents. That’s where the Founders and President Reagan thought decisions about education should be made. That’s where the Constitution placed education.
When a liberal Republican Congressman asked to meet President Reagan to discuss the "future of the education department," the Gipper noted in the margin of his daily schedule: "I hope it doesn't have one." President Reagan's note was written in his own handwriting, in cursive script. Common Core educrats want to dispense with teaching cursive writing -- yet another reason to oppose it!
