Color me not shocked:

Of course, b/c kids = human capital to them MT @LindsayWagnerNC:NC Chamber rejects NCGA proposal to ditch CommonCore http://t.co/l4JpDPYvg3

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) April 27, 2014

Totally predictable. I sat in the meeting where Gary Salamido, Vice President of Government Affairs for the NC Chamber, got up in front of the NCGA’s Common Core LRC and managed to skip talking about or saying the word children. Instead his terminology was ‘talent supply’, ‘skilled worker’ or generically a couple mentioning of ‘students’.  His speech was all about creating a nice compliant workforce. It was about jobs standards, not the education of our children. To Salamido and the NC Chamber, this is about ‘jobs’ in the future… which even they cannot predict the future of or availability of. Even their press release rejecting the NCGA’s steps to remove Common Core is devoid of the words kids, child or children.

The NC Chamber wants their Common Core workers, evidence be damned that the Common Core will not deliver on the bill of goods that were sold to them.

I’ve written about the NC Chamber and their “Hire Standards” initiative before. Read about this initiative here:

• A Blitz Of Influence And Money In NC Education
• Big Biz & Chamber Of Commerce Push Common Core

Note: To date, NO ONE from the NC Chamber has answered the question about the funding of ‘Hire Standards’ nor has anyone called out the affiliation with the Council Of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) of which our own State Superintendent is now President elect of.

Read about the parallel strategy by the US Chamber and other state Chambers of Commerce here:

• US Chamber’s “Learn More, Go Further” Common Core Site
• More Chamber & Biz Pushing Common Core – Tennessee
• Business Councils, Chamber Of Commerce Influencing Common Core Bills?
• More Big Biz & Chamber of Commerce Activity: Georgia