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Tag Archives: NC DPI
The Hunt Institute and YouTube Common Core Ads
While poking around on YouTube, I happened across the an advertisement for the Common Core. It was sponsored by the Hunt Institute. I know, you’re shocked right?
Just a quick reminder, the Hunt Institute has received millions (nearly $11 million) from the Gates Foundation for supporting and promoting the Common Core.
The Hunt Institute is also holding hands with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in promoting the Core in North Carolina and have been from the very start. See the last line of the last page of this presentation made to the NC State Board of Education in 2010 by the NC Department of Public Instruction.
YouTube ads tailor themselves by pulling content relevant your IP address (and also browsing history), so it would appear this ad was in part intended to target North Carolina audiences. Still trying to reach the majority of people have never heard of ‘the greatest education reform’? A day late and a dollar short perhaps? NC’s about to repeal Common Core. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, June Atkinson, Random Musings
Tagged CCSSO, NC DPI, NC State Board Of Education, The Hunt Institute, youtube
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Citizen’s Information Request Yields 60K In CCSSO Dues
A citizen request for information regarding one of the two D.C. trade groups responsible for the Common Core standards, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), yielded some interesting results from the NC Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI).
At least $60,000 in taxpayer funds paid for CCSSO related activity last year. Keep reading, there is more beyond the specific CCSSO dollar figure. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, June Atkinson
Tagged CCSSO, NC DPI
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Want Your Kid’s Transcript? Read The Fine Print.
A reader wrote to me this morning, expressing frustration with NC DPI, Wake County and CFNC over her child’s transcript. Apparently, parents need to read the fine print on the CFNC site (emphasis added): Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, LL1885, The Articles
Tagged NC DPI, Powerschool, Wake County Schools
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Pat McCrory Shifting On Common Core?
Governors in states surrounding North Carolina and across the country have all realized what a mess Common Core is.
Governor Pence dumped it.
Governor Haley got rid of it.
Governor Fallin got rid of it.
Governor Nixon has just to sign to be rid of it.
Governor Jindal is making moves to drop it.
Governor Haslam made the first move to stop it by dropping the PARCC tests.
Governor Cuomo has a full on insurrection of moms in NY; in time, likely they will dump it.
Also worth noting:
The Republican National Committee has a resolution opposing it.
The U.S. Congress has a resolution opposing it.
Our state of NC has a conference committee hammering out the details between SB 812 and HB 1061. The end result will be a commission to replace Common Core and create higher standards for North Carolina, the removal of a copyrighted brand name from our statutes, the restoration of educational sovereignty to our state and the return of a true education to our students. Having said that, the question remains:
Is North Carolina’s Governor McCrory coming around finally?
The answer? Maybe so. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, LL1885, NCGA, Pat McCrory, The Articles
Tagged Eric Guckian, HB1061, June Atkinson, NC DPI, Pat McCrory, SB812, Teach For America
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GUEST POST: HomeSchoolers Warning About Common Core
The following is a Guest post by a concerned parent and citizen of NC from the Homeschooling community.
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As a concerned parent, I have been asked to share with you some of my findings in looking into Common Core Standards’ web in NC’s education. Below is just a small amount of what I’ve learned.
Beware the dressing up of a sow!
What do I mean?! Charter schools, since the cap has been lifted, are sprouting up and taking advantage of the Common Core Standards. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION
Tagged Common Core, Homeschooling, NC DPI
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Education Simplification Amendment Is Overdue
The NC State Superintendent has had a lot of freedom to put North Carolina on the hook for big future spending and in obligating our state to activities that one can arguably say would fall in the category of a power overreach.
Just take the one example of Common Core. Dr. Atkinson, along with Governor Perdue, committed North Carolina to the Common Core before the standards were even published via North Carolina’s Race To The Top Application. That very act alone deserves scrutiny and an investigation, but to date, nothing has been done. Bluntly put, these two pretty much just got away with it. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or it goes to India.
In the same vein, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has grown every year, nearly unchecked. Educrat bloat, bureaucracy and layer upon layer of ‘new positions’ that rationalize other ‘new positions’ has been the result. That growth has a long list of high salaries attached to it as well.
I pulled down the salary information for DPI last Fall and found that 45 people there made more than a base salary of $100,000. ….
KEEP READING Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, June Atkinson, LL1885, NCGA, The Articles
Tagged June Atkinson, NC DPI, SB 880
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North Carolina and The Shared Learning Collaborative
In my article earlier today, I linked to an article by Mercedes Schneider which had a familiar talking point in it. A talking point we’ve heard come out of the mouths of NC Chamber members and legislators who are their allies in forcing Common Core down the throats of NC parents and kids.
At the end of my earlier article, I mentioned that I didn’t even touch on the second half of Schneider’s article which dealt with the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) and the sharing of unprecedented student information. This article is the follow-up.
Schneider talks about their state superintendent and his pressuring of Governor Jindal to keep the Core and the PARCC assessments. This combination would result in an unprecedented amount of data collection on students as well as subsequent sharing. Here is the relevant section:
KEEP READING… Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, LL1885, NCGA, Pat McCrory, The Articles
Tagged Data collection, inBloom, June Atkinson, NC DPI, Pat McCrory, SB812, Shared Learning Collaborative
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