It appears Common Core, that education-improvement program so hated by some states rights people, does come with federal funding.
The program might have been designed by a groups from the states, but the press is reporting that it comes with federal dollars.
Are these new federal dollars, or were they already in place? I'm assuming they are new, and since Common Core has been in place about two years, I'm assuming the new funding came just ahead of all the angst over the deficit, for I do not suppose such additional spending would have been approved at a time we so concerned with trimming our belt.
So, let's go back to the federal government and demand that the new funding be removed, nationwide. This will prevent a few pennies from being added to the national deficit -- and every penny counts. The timing for such a request will be favorable, since the taste of too much federal spending is still in our nation's mouth.
And, without that funding, Common Core can remain, free of charges from states rights advocates that it is bringing us under federal control. While other funding will have to be found for Common Core, go that route.
You might suggest the hitch in this suggestion is that it might be Common Core cannot survive without the federal funding. Well, how much does it cost? How much would we, as a state, have to come up with to keep it once the federal funding is eliminated? Can we come up with it, and if state government funds cannot cover it, why not collect contributions.
Should our educators be convinced Common Core is a plus, keep it, unless we can see it is not a good program. I, for one, though, do not suppose I have learned enough about the program to feel my judgement better than theirs.
Keep it. Keep it if it good. If the problem is the funding, not the program, get rid of the funding, not the program.
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