— Speaking of the Common Core, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is hosting an event with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today to bolster support for rigorous academic standards. While NHCLC has come out in support of the Common Core (and Huckabee has called it a “toxic term” and declared the standards “dead”), the event is about much more than Common Core. Carlos Campo, chair of the Hispanic Education Alliance at NHCLC, tells Morning Education the group will push for educational equity and announce new initiatives to close the achievement gap. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. ET at the National Press Club.
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LEARNING HOW TO LOSE THE COMMON CORE: Louisiana state
lawmakers are headed to Oklahoma today to learn from Sooner State legislators
about how to successfully ditch the Common Core. Republican Rep. Brett Geymann
tells Morning Education that he and Reps. Lance Harris, Bob Hensgens, Cameron
Henry and Rogers Pope will meet with staff and authors of the Oklahoma bill
that repealed the Common Core. Earlier this year, Geymann and his colleagues
unsuccessfully spearheaded a bill to repeal the standards. And a judge recently
said the Common Core could continue [http://politico.pro/1pX40yN]
in the state after denying a request filed by 17 lawmakers alleging that
implementation of the standards violated state law.
— Speaking of the Common Core, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is hosting an event with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today to bolster support for rigorous academic standards. While NHCLC has come out in support of the Common Core (and Huckabee has called it a “toxic term” and declared the standards “dead”), the event is about much more than Common Core. Carlos Campo, chair of the Hispanic Education Alliance at NHCLC, tells Morning Education the group will push for educational equity and announce new initiatives to close the achievement gap. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. ET at the National Press Club.
— Speaking of the Common Core, the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is hosting an event with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today to bolster support for rigorous academic standards. While NHCLC has come out in support of the Common Core (and Huckabee has called it a “toxic term” and declared the standards “dead”), the event is about much more than Common Core. Carlos Campo, chair of the Hispanic Education Alliance at NHCLC, tells Morning Education the group will push for educational equity and announce new initiatives to close the achievement gap. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. ET at the National Press Club.
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