Jindal initially supported Common Core but is now suing the federal government over the standards.
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The Republican presidential candidate often tells a story about his son bringing home Common Core-aligned math homework that requires a new, multi-step process for solving basic addition.
“This forum will determine whether they really know their stuff”, Brown said.
“He has propagated the false narrative that the Common Core standards are merely learning goals and of a high quality”, APIA said.
On the campaign trail, Bush has sought to diminish his support for Common Core, which was once nearly-universally adopted by the states, but has since become toxic among the Republican base. It will submit its recommendations to the state education board in February after public hearings in Shreveport, Alexandria, Crowley, Covington and New Orleans.
“The federal government should have nothing to say with this”, he said. “I think the people are responsible for holding the governors accountable”.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued that he’d work with anyone to get good results, reminding the crowd that he’d collaborated with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten to negotiate merit pay in Newark.
“If people don’t like Common Core, fine – just make sure your standards are much higher than the ones you had before”.
But the summit won’t be a debate: Each candidate will answer questions in succession, starting with Bush at 9 a.m. and ending with Christie in mid-afternoon.
The former Florida governor highlighted his reforms in education, boasting of “dramatic gains” in schools and battling teachers’ unions.
The state-level Common Core standards lay out basic facts and principles students should learn at the end of each grade level, but aren’t a national curriculum.
He maintains that he’s for higher standards in general, whether it’s Common Core or something else.
“They know I’m not intimidated”, he said. (The Obama administration’s Race to the Top school grants competition did give points to school districts that have standards, though, any standards, not necessarily the Common Core.).
Fiorina is speaking at an education forum in New Hampshire alongside five other GOP hopefuls.
Bush’s record on education reform isn’t as rosy as he claims.
She said “human potential” was the only resource America needed to solve its problems, and that “innovation” has functioned as the United States’ “secret sauce” in its recipe for success. It didn’t control how teachers actually teach, he said.
Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and John Kasich worked hard to defend their continued support for Common Core education standards, while also trying to assuage the fears of Republican voters who view the standards as a federal takeover of education.
“The commonality [of standards] is not as relevant as the highness of them”, he said. Instead, he has pushed for a broader definition of higher standards.
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Christie also doubled down on his controversial comment about teachers union leaders deserving a “punch in the face”. “I’ve got tire marks on my forehead, but I’m most proud of that”. “It’s not like pornography where you know it if you see it”.
