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Maine Common Core foes cross party lines to push repeal

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.

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Common Core supporters sue to prevent vote

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

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Second Common Core video released as Mass. considers dumping the federal standards

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

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Ballot group sees MCAS 2.0 as bid to ‘mollify our movement’

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

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Obama signs education law rewrite shifting power to states

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling it a "Christmas miracle," President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of the No Child Left Behind education law on Thursday, ushering in a new approach to accountability, teacher evaluations and the way the most poorly performing schools are pushed to improve. Joined by lawmakers,

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Voters may soon get to weigh in on charter schools, Common Core

BOSTON — Proponents of two ballot initiatives aimed at reforming Massachusetts public education dropped off boxes of signed petitions to Secretary of State William Galvin's office on Wednesday. Sponsors of measures that would expand the number of public charter schools and prevent the state from continuing to rely on

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MCAS or PARCC? The choice is clear

Next month, education policy makers in Massachusetts will decide whether to keep the highly regarded Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) or adopt the controversial Common Core-aligned test, developed by the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). About half of Massachusetts public school students transitioned to

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Common Core opponents ‘anxious’ about meeting signature requirement

STATE HOUSE — Donna Colorio is anxious and exhausted, but happy. The former Worcester School Committee member has been leading a volunteer effort to gather the 64,750 certified voter signatures needed to place a proposed repeal of Common Core education standards on the 2016 statewide ballot.