CBS NEWS: COMMON CORE ‘POISED TO PLAY A BIG ROLE’ IN GOP PRIMARY

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Breitbart:

CBS News says the Common Core standards will likely play a major role in the GOP nominating process for the 2016 presidential election, separating conservative candidates from those who support the top-down, nationalized education initiative.

 

“That’s doubly true in Iowa, where the kinds of Republican voters most vehemently opposed to Common Core – evangelical Christians, home-schooling advocates, states-rights conservatives – exert considerable influence over the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucus,” CBS News observes.

 

The nationalized standards are serving as a “litmus test” for voters, Tamara Scott, a policy adviser and lobbyist for the Family Leader, an Iowa-based conservative organization, told CBS News. “These are our children, and when you take parents out of the picture, which is what Common Core will do, most people find that offensive.”

 

“It’s going to be a top tier issue,” said John Brabender, who advises former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA). “I think it’s really the sleeper issue going into 2016 in Iowa.”

 

Brabender added that the issue of Common Core was among the first questions asked at every town hall meeting Santorum has held recently in Iowa.

 

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, however, has championed the Common Core standards for several years, and remains committed to them, though his support for them has been considered a major hurdle for him with the conservative base of the Republican Party.

 

As Breitbart News reported last August, a Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup (PDK/Gallup) poll found that only 19 percent of Americans knew “nothing at all” about the Common Core standards and that 60 percent opposed teachers using the standards to guide what they teach.

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Out of touch contenders.