Homeschoolers, Christian Schools Concerned About 'Race to the Top' Standards

Maureen Van Den Berg, legislative director for the American Association of Christian Schools, expressed concern over the potential that the CCSSI could develop into a national curriculum that even private schools would be pushed into adopting.
“One of our biggest concerns is that [CCSSI: will turn into a national curriculum,” Van Den Berg said. “If the federal government already has their fingers in the national standard movement because they tied the Race to the Top competition, the very first one, to the state’s adoption of the common core standards, by tying the Race to the Top competition to whether or not the states adopted that, that’s an indirect endorsement of the national standards, so it could very easily become a national curriculum. So, we’re very concerned from a private Christian school perspective.”

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