January 4, 2014 – Sioux Falls, SD You Are Invited What: Strategy Meeting to Defeat Common Core in SD Where: Sioux Falls Downtown Library Date: Saturday, January 4 Time: 9:30-11:30 am This legislative session (beginning January 2014) will be an optimum time for us to make changes to our laws to STOP COMMON CORE in our South Dakota schools. There will be…
Learn the Whole Story of the Common Core Standards Common Core Standards are a set of Math and English/Language Arts Standards that have currently been adopted by 46 states & the District of Columbia. Here are some facts: It ignores your child’s uniqueness It strips away local control of education…leaving parents, teachers and local schools…
IMPORTANT: If you know any Catholics in the Rapid City Diocese, please forward this onto them and ask them to spread the word! A meeting, sponsored by Catholics Concerned about Common Core, has been scheduled in order to give parents, and other interested parties, an opportunity to learn about Common Core Standards and their impact…
This Knox County, Tennessee student speaks out about the Common Core at his local school board meeting.
Rapid City Area Schools in collaboration with the South Dakota Department of Education, invites the public to a Public Information Session on Common Core Standards. DATE: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 TIME: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Historic Theatre, Rapid City High School 601 Columbus Street, Rapid City, SD Dr. Melody Schopp, SD Department of Education Secretary, will…
On October 15, 2013, Dr. Melody Schopp was the guest speaker at a Sioux Falls School District Common Core forum. In this Argus Leader Editorial, local parent Dawn Krikke responds to that forum. I attended the informational meeting on the evening of Oct. 15 at the Instructional Planning Center. The topic was the Common Core…
One-hundred thirty Catholic scholars, who have taught in America’s colleges and universities, some for decades, address America’s Catholic bishops, regarding their concerns with the implementation of the Common Core national reform of K-12 schooling in the Catholic schools. Letter to the Catholic Bishops
All are invited to this Common Core Information meeting. Speakers: Representative Jim Bolin, Representative Jim Stalzer, Mary Scheel-Buysse, and local parents.
Five of the twenty-nine people on the Common Core Validation Committee refused to sign off on the Common Core Standards. Dr. Sandra Stotsky, one of the nation’s leading English Language Arts content experts was one of those five. On October 16, 2013, Dr. Stotsky testified at a legislative hearing in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin against…
Some of the highlights from Dr. Duke Pesta’s, October 16, 2013, testimony in Wisconsin. What if, instead of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it were an extreme right wing foundation, that gave $225 billion, to unaccountable lobby groups, to create these standards? What if it were a conservative president, who created a program, whereby states…
South Dakotans Against Common Core 