Acts of deception have morphed into bullying

Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander about what he had accomplished with the recent re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In an op-ed in The Tennessean on Dec. 12, 2015, Senator Alexander implied that the reauthorization,  known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), "repealed the federal Common Core mandate and reversed the trend toward a national school board." [perfect

Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander about what he had accomplished with the recent re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In an op-ed in The Tennessean on Dec. 12, 2015, Senator Alexander implied that the reauthorization,  known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), "repealed the federal Common Core mandate and reversed the trend toward a national school board." [perfect…