DALLAS – After crushing the Common Core initiative last week, Chuck Norris is back for more.

He writes:

Last week in Part 1, I explained what the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, are and how, despite the federal government saying it’s staying out of the classroom standard business, there is much evidence to show that the feds are intricately linked to it.

The first way I demonstrated that in Part 1 was by pointing out that the feds have spent $350 million of taxpayers’ money, funding and giving give grants and waivers to muscle and bribe states and local school districts to accept CCSS. And all of that was done without a single act of Congress, meaning yours truly – the executive branch, including the White House – dumped protocol again to dodge accountability.

With their monetary tentacles reaching over state lines and into classrooms, their second step is to inject their progressive agenda into curricula taught in elementary, middle and high schools. And that is easily accomplished because their educative minions pervade academic arenas and CCSS curricula creators.
       
Common Core advocates pride themselves in saying that the standards don’t set curriculum but  only goals (or what they call “benchmarks”) that educators utilize to help their students reach the academic stars. They say states, local school districts, administrators and educators will fashion curricula.

In fact, the Curriculum and Instruction Steering Committee, a group under the California County of Superintendents Educational Services Association, issued a form titled “Frequent Asked Questions [about] Common Core Standards,” in which it is categorically stated: “The Standards don’t dictate the details of academic curriculum.”

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