Trump at CEO
Business Town Hall: ‘Common Core… We Have to End It’
by Dr. Susan Berry 4 Apr 2017
At his CEO Business
Town Hall Tuesday, President Donald Trump returned to his campaign promise to
end the highly unpopular Common Core standards
and once again make education policy the domain of local governments.
“Common Core, I mean, we have to bring education more
local,” Trump said at the White House. “We can’t be managing education from
Washington.”
The president continued:
When I go out to Iowa, when I go out to the different
states and I talk, they want to run their school programs locally and they’ll
do a much better job… And I like the fact of getting rid of Common Core. You
know, Common Core, to me, we have to end it. We have to bring education local,
to me. I’ve always said it, I’ve been saying it during the campaign, and we’re
doing it.
This month, concerns had arisen
about Trump’s commitment to his oft-repeated campaign promise to end Common
Core. Toward the tail end of his campaign, Trump’s message shifted from the
termination of the controversial standards to school choice.
American Principles Project senior fellow Emmett
McGroarty welcomes the return of Trump’s attention to the problematic
standards that were quickly adopted by states in exchange for the promise
of federal cash and relief from onerous federal regulations.
“More than any other President — or even presidential
candidate — ever, Donald Trump has empathized with our citizens, particularly
parents, who have seen firsthand the damage done by federal efforts to shape
and dictate education policy,” McGroarty said in a statement.
“Today’s comments show that President Trump has not
forgotten his promise to end Common Core and return to local control of
education,” he added. “He is taking seriously the assurance he made in his
Inaugural Address, ‘Today… we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and
giving it back to you, the American people.’”
Trump also said his education secretary Betsy DeVos is
“doing a terrific job.”
“Highly respected, tremendous track record, but she’s got
one of the toughest jobs of any of our secretaries, to me, she’s got one of the
toughest jobs,” the president added.
DeVos went to Washington, D.C., to assume her post after
working on school choice and school voucher programs in her home state of
Michigan. While many in Trump’s base believe school choice is a desirable goal,
the view of conservatives and libertarians is that school choice can best be
achieved naturally with the elimination of the federal education department.
A recent Heritage Foundation panel of education policy
professionals urged the Trump
administration and Washington politicians to refrain from making school choice
a federal program.
DeVos has drawn concern over some of her decisions and
comments since assuming her post. For example, the secretary has surrounded herself
with advisers and staff who have ties to Jeb Bush –
a vocal proponent of Common Core – as well as to Indiana, where Common Core was
repealed but then simply “rebranded.”
DeVos also recently said the
federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) “essentially does away with the
notion of a Common Core,” a statement many grassroots parent activists
still battling against the Core in their states have flatly rejected.
Though ESSA still requires the federal education
department to approve of state education plans, DeVos, nevertheless, also said
in a recent speech, “I share the founders’ belief that those closest to
problems usually know best how to solve them.”
Debbie Higginbotham, a spokesperson for Florida Parents
RISE, tells Breitbart News DeVos’s comments suggest much ambiguity.
“Secretary Devos’s equating ESSA with ‘federalism’ as it
relates to education is the central problem we all face,” she
explains. “There is zero provision in the Constitution, deliberately so by
the founders, for the federal government to have any purview over
education. It was – and is – an issue of local control and sovereignty.”
Higginbotham also argues that DeVos’s claim she is a
federalist is in sharp contrast to the ESSA law:
It’s disturbing for the reason that if she holds a true
belief in federalism, then she would urge Congress to write a bill that would
truly allow the states to: take care of their students with proven, challenging
educational standards; eliminate high stakes testing; invite local control of
education policy at the school board level; and issue no penalty to the states
for replacing the Common Core State Standards with a set of standards of their
choice.
McGroarty says Trump’s leadership on the elimination of
Common Core in the states is vital from this point forward.
“Every Swamp creature will unite to fight against the
president on this, so his leadership will be critical,” he explains. “We look
forward to seeing what steps the Trump Administration will take in the coming
months to take power away from Washington D.C. and return it to parents.”
Common Core educational
standards
Jeb
Bush is a supporter of the Common
Core educational standards, a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and was a board member for the American Action Forum.
Note: Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Frederic V. Malek
is the chairman for the American Action
Forum, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Ford Foundation was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a trustee
at the Rockefeller Foundation, is a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans
for population control by involving the United States in war)
He shows us that the Carnegie
Endowment, the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim
Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation joined
together to alter American history and take over the whole education system in
America, so the children can be indoctrinated into accepting a World
Government.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and Achieve Inc.
Achieve Inc. helped
develop the Common Core educational
standards.
Michael Cohen is
the president of Achieve Inc., and
was an assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education.
Race to the Top
is a grant program for the U.S.
Department of Education, and encourages the adoption of the Common Core educational standards.
Shirley M.
Hufstedler was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education, and a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank).
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Ford Foundation
was a funder for the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
Frederic V. Malek
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and the chairman for the American
Action Forum.
Jeb
Bush was a board member for the American
Action Forum, is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and a supporter of the Common Core educational standards.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Walter Isaacson
is a director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a chairman & CEO for CNN.
Ted
Turner is the founder of CNN,
and a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
David A. Hamburg
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the president emeritus for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and Achieve Inc.
Achieve Inc. helped
develop the Common Core educational
standards.
Newton N. Minow is
an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Ford Foundation
was a funder for the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank).
Frederic V. Malek
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and the chairman for the American
Action Forum.
Jeb
Bush was a board member for the American
Action Forum, is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, and a supporter of the Common Core educational standards.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Shirley M.
Hufstedler was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education.
Race to the Top
is a grant program for the U.S.
Department of Education, and encourages the adoption of the Common Core educational standards.
Michael Cohen was
an assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education, and is the president of Achieve Inc.
Achieve Inc. helped
develop the Common Core educational
standards.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for Achieve Inc., the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a partner
with The 74.
The
74 is a partner with the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and the Bloomberg
Philanthropies.
Bloomberg
Philanthropies is a partner with The
74, and an umbrella organization for
the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Jeb
Bush is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a supporter of the Common
Core educational standards, and was a board member for the American Action Forum.
Frederic V. Malek
is the chairman for the American Action
Forum, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
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