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Category: Weekend News

Weekend News: Open Invitation

March 20, 2016Lynne Taylor2 Comments on Weekend News: Open Invitation

We must act quickly to learn all we can! The CCSS Machine has made some recent and BOLD moves, thanks to the ESSA.

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Weekend News: “No”, a Powerful Word!

February 27, 2016Lynne Taylor3 Comments on Weekend News: “No”, a Powerful Word!

Anti CCSS Warriors, have you noticed how “no” is working in our fight to free our nation of all things ‘Common Core’? Slowly, but surely, our voices are proving effective. However, we have a lot more speaking to do! In this edition of my Weekend News, I have some ways in which we are proving […]

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Big Bucks for Post Secondary Ed

February 13, 2016December 12, 2019Lynne Taylor7 Comments on Big Bucks for Post Secondary Ed

In this final in-depth look at the massive amount of taxpayer money being requested to continue the CCSS Machine’s overreach into education (at all levels), we will see what portions of the almost $70 billion will go to post-secondary education. A part of Common Core, Career Tech Education, College and Career Readiness, I have researched […]

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Fed Ed Budget for Teachers/Leaders

February 12, 2016Lynne Taylor7 Comments on Fed Ed Budget for Teachers/Leaders

It is no secret how fed up most American teachers are with Common Core Standards. Now iron-clad bound by the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act). What MORE CCS (aka: Competency Based Education, College and Career Readiness, or Challenging State Academic Standards) will they be subjected to? What about the other school leaders (principals, superintendents, school […]

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Weekend News: The IES and the ESSA

February 5, 2016Lynne Taylor12 Comments on Weekend News: The IES and the ESSA

In yesterday’s ‘Tech Thursday’ article, I gave you plenty of information about the CCSS Machine’s efforts via the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) and digital education. In the ‘Closing’, I assured you we would look at the IES (Institute of Education Sciences) next. Why? Section 9210 of the ESSA discusses the IES’s role in federal […]

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Education’s Just Desserts

January 31, 2016November 30, 2019Lynne Taylor1 Comment on Education’s Just Desserts

Greetings to you, my fellow anti CCSS Warriors. We’ve been hearing the phrase ‘end federally led education’ for some time now. We’ve heard citizens, leaders, and others state their desire in closing down the U.S. Dept. of Education. We know how hungry for an anti CCSS (Common Core State Standards or whatever other names it […]

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The School Board Special, Part One

January 23, 2016Lynne Taylor10 Comments on The School Board Special, Part One

This Weekend News begins a special series for all those ‘anti CCSS Machine Warriors’ out there running for their school boards this election year. No matter if it is a local school board race or a state-wide race, this compendium is for you!! If you should have an issue you would like more information on and […]

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