Money drives the Common Core. Money spent on it and money to be made from it. Gates has dropped over $2.6 million into the National PTA. So when a local PTA official in Ohio said the following, I chuckled and shook my head:

During the legislature’s Common Core hearings, Rep. Andy Thompson, R-Marietta, the sponsor of the bill to eliminate the standards, has pressed several pro-Common Core witnesses about their affiliations, influences and funding — focusing particularly on whether money came from the Gates Foundation.

Even the Ohio PTA didn’t escape that line of questioning, Reporter Jim Siegel saw. The House Rules Committee has heard from a number of parents who oppose Common Core, but the Ohio PTA is firmly in support, arguing that repeal would be a “huge mistake.”

After Sue Owen, the Ohio PTA executive director, explained why Common Core is good for students, Thompson asked about her group’s ties to the National Parent Teacher Association, particularly financial links. Owen told him that, no, the group doesn’t get money from the National PTA, and no, the National PTA played no role in its decision to back Common Core.
–Dispatch.com

Riiiight.
The National PTA bought the Common Core sales job hook, line and sinker. Just look at their site, it’s riddled with the Common Core.

The National PTA then pushed down on all their affiliates to promote Common Core. They did it here in North Carolina and they did it in Ohio.  If no money changed hands to do so, they’d be the first in an ever expanding web of Core Supporters.

Reminder: National PTA Wants To Know Where You Stand on Common Core