Jeb is, of course, the country's greatest advocate for Common Core, which puts him on a front impact collision course with the movement conservative base of the GOP that sees in Common Core ideas about national standards some "big brother" (meaning liberal and godless) plot to destroy local control over public education. While Fox News will most certainly be in the tank for Jeb should he run for the GOP nomination, even op-ed writers for foxnews.com are allowed by Ailes to point out the problem: Does Jeb Bush realize Common Core threatens school choice concept?
To its advocates, which could include many self identified "progressives," the core standards represent a rational (meaning modernist) effort to bring uneven results from the fragmented US educational system in line with European and Asian models, set national standards, and improve US student test scores across the board.
While detractors do attack Common Core from a "reactionary" viewpoint (it's another New World Order conspiracy that will deny communities control over the education of their children), "anti-plutocracy" populists also see it as a mechanism to deliver the public education system nationally into the hand of crony capitalists speculating in "for profit" private education companies selling products and services designed to produce such national standards of instruction under contract with local and state governments.
Now that George P. Bush, after the November election, will control the state educational budget in Texas, the country may find out exactly how a "crony capital" and "pay to play" Common Core scheme will work in a state as a pilot project.
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