BOSTON – Project Veritas, a nonprofit "guerilla reporting" organization that has made headlines exposing questionable practices at taxpayer-backed activist groups like now-defunct ACORN, released an undercover video on Tuesday that it says shows Common Core is little more than a publishing ploy to sell more textbooks.
The national Common Core State Standards Initiative in public schools is "all about the money," the group says in highlighting a sales executive's comments caught on a hidden camera in California. As with any video, there's no easy way to tell how much it has been edited or to judge the context of what is being shown.
(CNSNews.com) – White House aides have made it clear that President Obama will project "confidence" and "optimism" in his final State of the Union Address Tuesday night. He'll try to contrast his outlook with "the avalanche of negativity" from Republicans,Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday.
But on Tuesday morning, hours before the president's speech, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said there is reason to be concerned about liberal "trickle-down" policies, weak economic growth, stagnant wages and a world "on fire."
