Earlier this year, the Civitas Institute held their Conservative Leadership Conference (CLC) which had a long list of great speakers and break out sessions.

Kurtz has written about many political and education issues for various outlets like National Review Online and Ethics and Public Policy Center. I’ve cited some of his work regarding the AP History revisions in the past both here and on StopCommonCoreNC.org.

I was in attendance at CLC this year and had the privilege of sitting with Mr. Kurtz at dinner one evening during the conference. The video below is one of the break-out sessions I attended where Kurtz talked about the impact of an imposed national curriculum (Common Core) and how the College Board is a monopoly with an agenda.

“Common Core is just the beginning. What most people still don’t understand is that the College Board, the non-profit company that creates the SAT test and all of the many Advanced Placement exams, poses an even greater threat to local control, state authority and traditional American values than does Common Core.” – Stanley Kurtz, CLC 2016

Read Kurtz’s Op-Ed at the Washington Post: The College Board is in a position to create a defacto National Curriculum

Here’s the full video: