Assessing Candidates’ Record on Common Core
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Receive an A – on Common Core Report Card
August 19, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart
ThePulse2016, American Principles in Action, and Cornerstone Policy Research released a Common Core score card of the major GOP presidential candidates.
Filed Under: Candidates on Education,
Donna Garner has been fighting common core since before 2010. The City on a Hill Podcast provided my first in-depth education in common core.
Garner also points out that although billionaire businessman Donald Trump expresses opposition to Common Core,
he has given liberally to the politicians that put the terrible system into place: - See more at: http://www.flstopcccoalit...
“Ted Cruz vs. Donald Trump on Common Core”
By Donna Garner
7.20.15 – The difference between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump on the Common Core is that Ted Cruz knew way back in 2010 – 2011 that CC was the Obama administration’s destructive plan to indoctrinate and dumb down America’s children.
Donald Trump seems to have had a sudden epiphany very recently about CCSI now that he is running for President. “We the People” simply do not trust candidates who have sudden epiphanies because once elected, these people quickly turn into left-leaning compromisers. Our state legislatures are full of them and so is Congress.
The American people were fooled by Obama twice; we cannot elect another charlatan nor a Narcissist who only values people based upon their monetary worth. Some of the greatest patriots in America are dirt poor.
What we need in the White House is someone with a proven record of consistent conservativism. Ted Cruz has that. Just look on his website (https://www.tedcruz.org/ ) under “Proven Record.”
Here is Ted Cruz’s record on Common Core:
7.16.15 – “Cruz Amendment To Gut Testing Mandate Fails” – Truth in American Education – http://truthinamericanedu...
7.15.15 — Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment would have allowed parents to opt children out of standardized tests – vote failed by 32 – 64; Ted Cruz, Rand Paul voted for Lee’s amendment, Rubio did not vote on it.
5.7.15 — “Ted Cruz’s Fire in the Belly Against Common Core” — by Donna Garner – EdViews.org —
Here is Donald Trump’s record on Common Core:
Donna Garner
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ThePulse2016 covers and explains each candidate’s grade in the posts below:
A- … Rand Paul
B+… Bobby Jindal
B … LindseA- … Ted Cruz
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B … Rick Perry
B … Rick Santorum
B- … Ben Carson
B- … Donald Trump
C+… Carly Fiorina
C … Mike Huckabee
C … Marco Rubio
D+… Chris Christie
D+… Scott Walker
F … Jeb Bush
ThePulse2016 Report Card: Common Core
ThePulse2016.com (a project of American Principles in Action) and New Hampshire’s Cornerstone Action are releasing our first formal report card to voters on how GOP candidates are doing in responding to the concerns of Common Core parents and the experts who have validated their concerns. We have carefully evaluated the candidates on three separate—but related—issues:
1.) Have they spoken out and acted against Common Core?
2.) Do they understand and have they made a specific commitment to protect state and local control of education from further federal intrusion?
3.) What efforts has the candidate made to protect student and family privacy interests against the rising demands of industry and central planners for more personal student data?
The Common Core Report Card: Donald Trump Gets a B-
Ending the Common Core System: B-
Protecting State and Local Decision Making: B
Protecting Child and Family Privacy: C
Overall Grade: B-
On several occasions, Trump has criticized Jeb Bush for supporting Common Core. At the Iowa Freedom Summit in January, Trump told the crowd, “[Bush is] totally in favor of Common Core – that’s a disaster – it’s bad. It should be local and all of that.”
At the Iowa Family Leadership Conference, Trump stated: “Common Core has to be ended. It’s a disaster. It’s a way of taking care of the people in Washington that, frankly, I don’t even think they give a damn about education, half of them. And I’m sure some of you maybe do.”
The Common Core Report Card: Ted Cruz Gets an A
Ending the Common Core System: A-
Protecting State and Local Decision Making: A
Protecting Child and Family Privacy: B+
Overall Grade: A
A- ... Ted Cruz FSCCC would add that Senator Ted Cruz has been rock solid on his opposition to Common Core and has never wavered. One does not need to parse his statements. We also appreciate his vote against ECAA, the Senate No Child Left Behind rewrite, as well as his amendment attempt to that bill to return testing decisions to the states. We hope that he considers co-sponsoring Senator David Vitter's Student Privacy Protection Act or draft some other student privacy protection legislation that includes protection against psychological profiling, which we believe would turn his excellent A- grade to a stellar A+.
Sen. Ted Cruz is one of the two senatorial candidates for president (the other being Rand Paul) who supported Senator Grassley’s effort to defund the Common Core in 2013 and 2014. He co-signed a letter penned by Senator Chuck Grassley to the chair and vice-chair of the Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee on Education that calling for a prohibition on the use of federal funding to promote the Common Core, to end the federal involvement in the Common Core testing consortium, and to prohibit USED from rescinding a state’s No Child Left Behind waiver if it repealed Common Core.
On the stump, Cruz has consistently called for the “repeal” of the Common Core Standards and for the return of educational control to the state and to the local level. This exchange occurred on a recent airing of The Kelly File on Fox News:
Cruz: I do, I think we should repeal every single word of Common Core. The reason is I think education is far more important for it to be governed by unelected bureaucrats in Washington. It should be at the state level or better the local level . . .
Kelly: But it is. The response to that is that governors got together to push this through.
Cruz: But Megyn, that’s not how it works. The Obama administration had used money, federal money, to force states to adopt Common Core standards.
Kelly: But can’t they bail out if they don’t want to be a part of it?
Cruz: Well sure they can, but there are a lot of dollars connected to it. The federal government, it’s sort of like the drug dealer that goes to junior high and gets the kid hooked saying ‘just try it once.’ The federal government has offered the states these dollars and there’s so many strings attached.
Cruz seems to understand the issue better than some, and he says the right things. He would do well to elevate the issue in his comments. Cruz, like all candidates, should mention the qualitative problems with the Common Core and should set forth their solutions to the federal command-and-control mechanisms that intrude on state and local decision-making. The candidate who does this would signal an understanding of the issues and would win the confidence of the people.
His proposed S.AMDT 2180 to the NCLB reauthorization was a great step forward for reining in the federal government, as it would have significantly returned accountability to the states. It gained an impressive 40 votes, but failed to pass. It is the kind of inspired and courageous leadership desperately sought by activist mothers and fathers.
Sen. Cruz voted against S.1177, the No Child Left Behind Reauthorization introduced by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA). He also voted in favor of S.AMDT 2162, introduced by Sen. -
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Tampa Bay Times Examines Rubio’s Involvement in Common Core
Also acknowledges harm to Bush campaign By Karen R. Effrem, MD on January 25, 2016
Alex Leary of the Tampa Bay Times discussed Common Core’s role in the campaign of the two Florida presidential candidates, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. The article, titled “Rubio may oppose Common Core but has supported the ideas behind it,” lists several ways that Marco Rubio has supported the components of the Common Core system:
…while Rubio never advocated for Common Core, he was a proponent of the building blocks.
Bush on Thursday noted that Rubio had supported Race to the Top, the federal program that incentivized states to adopt Common Core.
“I think that’s a good idea,” Rubio said in 2009. He did stress, however, that he felt “education is a state function, best regulated and governed at the state level.”
That year Rubio also praised Obama’s hire of Arne Duncan as education secretary, calling him an “innovator” while praising the federal government’s effort “encouraging” states to adopt curriculums “that reflect the 21st Century.”
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