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Indiana Dept. Of Ed Survey For Migrant Students Using Federal Funding

Posted on July 31, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

The Indiana Department of Education has sent out surveys to determine migrant status of students so they can qualify for ‘additional educational support’. That support is apparently coming in the form of “national funding” — i.e., your tax dollars. This item is part of the student registration pack according to @DDog31:

.@LadyLiberty1885 check out the form that was in our Indiana regist pack for school. @sistertoldjah pic.twitter.com/3QZOZe2KH4

— DDog31 – JJohnson (@ddog31) July 31, 2014

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Opportunity Scholarships Allowed Ahead Of Future Ruling

Posted on July 31, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Judge Hobgood ruled yesterday that North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarships will be allowed to proceed – for now.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina judge won’t block a state agency from distributing taxpayer money to cover private school tuition in advance of a hearing to determine whether the program championed by Republican lawmakers is legal.

Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood said Wednesday he won’t issue an injunction blocking the State Educational Assistance Authority from paying out $10 million in government-funded scholarships to students who won a lottery for tuition assistance to attend private or religious schools.
– News and Observer

Sources say that Judge Hobgood’s ruling today allowed Speaker Tillis and Senator Berger’s motion to intervene. This allows them to be parties to the suit. By denying the plantiff’s injunction request, this ruling allows children who have already been selected to receive Opportunity Scholarship funds.

I’ll have more updates when they become available. Overall, this is a win for students in North Carolina and for school choice. Continue reading →

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Market Analysis Confirms Common Core Is A Cash Cow

Posted on July 31, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

A market analysis done by Onvia Inc. seems to be pointing at Common Core to be one of the biggest cash cows ever in terms of Education contracts and technology. Onvia serves a variety of industries, but the Education industry’s page was eye-opening. The estimated cost in the report is likely already out of date. The document also addresses technology as being one of the most expensive pieces of Common Core. Mr. Gates will be pleased to hear that after he dumped around $3 billion into pushing Common Core from his Gates Foundation.
This market analysis is a White paper on spending related to Common Core. Onvia quotes the Fordham Institute quite a lot throughout the paper – 17 times. The paper also makes CommonCoreAlignedreference to an Onvia database where a query on Common Core returned over 4,000 matches in project documents.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

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Common Core Architect Coleman’s Apoloattack

Posted on July 30, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Politico has a little snippet up about David Coleman. In it Coleman is caught repeating the new talking point: Don’t attack the critics.

Coleman then turns around and attacks the critics in the last section of the Politico snippet while seemingly supporting their concerns. Amazing. Yeah, those data concerns… totally loony?

Related reading: Changes to the AP History, Gates lobbies for more data collection

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Relevant portion of the Politico piece: Continue reading →

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Advancing NH’s Public Education And Dishonesty

Posted on July 30, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Well, the tide is turning on Common Core. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Demonizing the public, parents, teachers and kids to advance the Core has backfired big time. The PR/messaging behemoth behind Common Core needs a new line of attack.

It looks like the focus is now going after the experts who dared call out the flaws in the Core. At least for one New Hampshire guy.

@manateespirit Oh, I left one… Did you see the new shift? Going after Milgram not parents. Watch, Stotsky is next.

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) July 30, 2014

This is a bit ironic since prior to now, the powers that be behind the Core were doing their best to wipe out evidence of the Validation committee dissenters.

Advancing New Hampshire’s Public Education (ANHPE) has an article titled James Milgram’s dishonest critique of the Common Core math standards apparently written by Bill Duncan. Mr. Duncan goes after Dr. Milgram claiming the examples Milgram used in the Pioneer White Paper from 2010 called ‘Fair To Midling’ are flawed because… well, Duncan’s entire premise rests on the idea Milgram only used a portion of the standards and not the whole thing. This is a White Paper, Mr. Duncan. That comparison is called an example and is commonly used to represent a larger body of information because the rest is largely more of the same.

Let’s talk about dishonesty.

Dr. Milgram is a Mathematician.
Dr. Milgram is also a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and is extremely well-known and respected. He was on the validation committee for Common Core and — clearly, someone thought he knew his stuff. For the love of Pete, his bio is on the NASA website.

Milgram’s out there for the world to see. Mr. Duncan? Not so much. Continue reading →

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Guest Post: A Common Core Dear John Letter

Posted on July 29, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

  This is a reader submitted guest post.   Dear John C. Core, You appear to be suffering from an identity crisis, so being the helpful person I am, I thought I’d sit down and  see if I could be … Continue reading →

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