BOSTON GLOBE: DESPITE CRITICS, JEB BUSH COMMITTED TO COMMON CORE

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Despite criticism from the conservative base of the Republican Party, The Boston Globe states former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has no intention of stepping back from his support for the nationalized Common Core standards.

 

According to the Globe, “Just saying the name Common Core generates animosity among some GOP primary voters.”

 

“It’s become Obamacare for education,” says John Brabender, a Pennsylvania-based Republican consultant who advised former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. “Even people who cannot articulate why they are for or against it — they still consider it toxic.”

 

The Globe likens Bush’s support for Common Core to former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s “tortured relationship with conservatives” over his Romneycare health plan that ultimately served as a template for Obamacare.

 

Bush’s advisers, the Globe report states, indicate he is committed to supporting the Common Core standards and will continue calling for higher national standards.

 

The possible 2016 presidential contender, however, has spoken about the Common Core standards as both more “rigorous” and “higher” than other standards and, as the Globe observes, as the new “minimum” in classrooms.

 

No independent studies have been conducted to support the claim that the Common Core standards are more “rigorous” or “higher” than other standards.

 

Last week, CNN reported that during an address in Florida, Bush did not mention the name “Common Core”; he simply said he is for “higher standards” and wants to limit federal involvement in education decisions.

 

Conservative Republicans, especially, have rejected the Common Core, based on the federal government’s decision to entice states into adopting them in exchange for competitive grants and waivers from the onerous restrictions of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.

 

Americans, in general, have grown to dislike the Common Core as they become increasingly aware of what the initiative entails.

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Jeb's Achilles heel.

[Cyber_Liberty]

This, and his last name, will doom him. He might get the nomination by using the same technique as Romney, but the result in November will be the same.