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AUGUSTA, Maine – A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers is pushing a measure to repeal national education standards, known as Common Core, adopted by the state in 2011. State Rep. Will Tuell (R-East Machias) submitted a bill in late December that would replace Maine's Common Core standards by 2017.
Maura Healey
BOSTON – Supporters of Common Core sued Friday to prevent Massachusetts voters from having an opportunity to weigh in on whether the Commonwealth should keep or scrap the controversial federal standards. The 10 plaintiffs – including a former education commissioner, business leaders, parents and one teacher – filed suit against Attorney General Maura
Massachusetts
On Nov. 17, 2015, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted not to move forward with the PARCC test (a national Common Core-based test) and instead to adopt a "hybrid" test called MCAS 2.0. Although it was widely reported that Massachusetts had dumped Common Core,
GOP
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush rolled out a broad education reform plan Monday that would shift power and money to states and local school districts — and away from the federal government. The former Florida governor also wants to revamp how high school graduates and their parents
Massachusetts
BOSTON – A second undercover video portraying Common Core as an exercise in profiteering by publishers including Boston textbook giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt surfaced Thursday, showing an executive of the company saying such education initiatives are "never about the kids." The video, from Project Veritas, a nonprofit journalism outfit
Massachusetts
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
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BOSTON — As Massachusetts school districts prepare for the MCAS 2.0 era to launch in the spring of 2017, ballot activists are pledging to undo the education standards behind one of the exams expected to influence the revamped student assessment test. In November, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Secretary of State Bill Galvin said seven initiative petition campaigns submitted enough certified voter signatures to meet the requirement for consideration by lawmakers and that he will send the proposals to the Legislature for consideration during the session that starts in January, moving the initiatives one step closer to
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