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Vail Chamber & Business Association

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In the News - Common Core Standards

August 15, 2010
Kaye Ferry: National Common Core Standards

Well once again they drank the Kool-Aid and started the process of selling us down the river.

Last Monday, August 2, the Colorado Board of Education met to vote on whether or not it was in the best interest of the state of Colorado to adopt the National Common Core Standards. As I stated previously in another article, it is one of the stepping-stones needed to have your name put in the hat for possible allocation of federal funds but here are several problems as I see it.

By adopting these standards, that admittedly are no better than the standards already in place in our state (in fact, the Colorado standards were used as a model for this new legislation), we open ourselves up to federal government intervention how we run our school system. ...read more
 

  Read Kaye Ferry's Colorado
Board of Education Nomination Acceptance Speech:

Download Position statement on Common Core Value