CCSS: testing of English Language Learners

Here's a guy who thinks it is "outrageous" that the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is planning to give failing scores on the English test to more than 90% of the students who don't speak English.

The writer wants the SBAC to make the English test easier for the people who "through no fault of their own" are still learning English.

http://jonathanpelto.com/2015/02/24/more-than-90-of-english-language-learners-projected-to-fail-common-core-sbac-test/

Gov. Kasich to opponents of Common Core: FOAD.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich believes opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative is “hysteria,” and does not expect his state’s legislature to attempt a repeal in this legislative session.

“I don’t expect anything like that,” Kasich told TheBlaze. “When you study the issue, you separate the hysteria from the reality.”

Kasich, a Republican who has been mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential contender, said his state would proceed in further implementing the standards.

“We have carried it out. We have higher standards. We want our kids to perform better and do better,” Kasich said. “The standards are determined by our local school boards. There is total local control. I think there has been a hysteria about this that is not well founded.”


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/16/kasich-calls-common-core-opposition-hysteria/

Letter from the Archbishop of Milwaukee

Archbishop of Milwaukee to parents opposing Common Core:

1.  I am the authority.
2. Our standards are very high.
3. You are horribly misinformed.
4. You are unqualified to judge our choices.
5. I am insulted that you question my decisions.
6. I am tired of talking to you.
7. You need to spend your time supporting me instead of attacking me.
8. Especially because you don't know what you're talking about.

http://static.maciverinstitute.com/Response%20Letter%20(1).pdf