Two more states are deserting the Common Core, as opposition grows to the Obama-backed education standards.
Oklahoma and South Carolina both passed laws removing their states from the Common Core initiative this week and last. They join Indiana to be the first three states to officially back out of the program, though a dozen states have considered legislation that would change or reject the Common Core. Still others have rebranded the standards, renaming them and opting to create their own standardized tests.
In South Carolina, they’ll keep much of the Core in place for the next year while they write new standards; Oklahoma will revert to their previous standards.
Common Core “was intended to develop a set of high standards in classrooms across the nation that would ensure children graduated from high school prepared for college and a career in an increasingly competitive workforce. It was originally designed as a state-lead – not federal – initiative that each state could choose to voluntarily adopt,” Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said after signing the bill. She’s in a tricky spot, as both an early supporter of the Core and a member of the Republican Governor’s Association that has pushed for the standards to be written. “Unfortunately, federal overreach has tainted Common Core.”









