Where’s Idaho Bound to Common Core
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/statestabilization/stateapps/id-sub.pdf
See also: The federal grants from the 2009 Stimulus Package for the creation of Idaho’s State Longitudinal Data System (This was a nearly $9. million dollar grant to Idaho to create a data system which would provide a framework for the Obama administration’s National Education Data Model. In order to start collecting individual student and family data without parental consent—including things like bus stop times, health conditions and religious affiliation—the Obama administration bypassed Congress and rewrote federal FERPA privacy regulations).
http://nces.ed.gov/Programs/SLDS/state.asp?stateabbr=ID
2) The 2009 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by Governor Otter and State Superintendent Tom Luna, where they committed Idaho to Common Core national standards.
http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/utahs-memorandum-of-misunderstanding/
3) The No Child Left Behind Flexibility Request (Waiver) in which the MOU was used as “evidence” that Idaho, in exchange for flexibility from the stipulations in No Child Left Behind, would adopt Common Core.
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/esea-flexibility/map/id.html
4) The Common Core standards copyright binds states to precisely what is written in the standards. States can add 15% more to the standards, but cannot take anything away from them. They are adopted “in whole.”
http://www.corestandards.org/public-license
5) The fact that the K-12 assessments aligned to Common Core will be used by 90% of the states will preclude states deviating from the standards. We are bound by the sheer nature of national standards themselves–and this was by design. To deviate from the standards by even 5% would put states at a comparative disadvantage.
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