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Principled Leadership in the ESSA Era

March 28, 2016Lynne Taylor12 Comments on Principled Leadership in the ESSA Era

              Warriors Against the Core! A call to action is before us. The question is, will we continue to see the CCSS (Common Core State Standards) Machine spew deceptive principles right before us OR we will expose them quickly, mightily, and with purpose?! With the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds […]

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States Get Graded CCR, Style!

March 17, 2016Lynne Taylor2 Comments on States Get Graded CCR, Style!

How CCR is measured in your state. How it connects to the ESSA.

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ESSA in a Nutshell

February 23, 2016Lynne Taylor13 Comments on ESSA in a Nutshell

Anti CCSS Warriors, the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) is meant to be tough. It is meant to embed educational reform as we have never before seen. It was meant to be SO tough, no one would ever truly know the rotten insides lurking underneath the ink. It is full of CCSS, CCR, CTE(Common Core […]

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ESSA and Teacher Pay

February 18, 2016March 18, 2023Lynne Taylor21 Comments on ESSA and Teacher Pay

In the shift from one federal education law to another, we need to know how the CCSS Machine is going to pay our teachers. More specifically, how the ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) will reward, or punish, them.

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FTF: A Chip off The Education Block

February 9, 2016Lynne Taylor8 Comments on FTF: A Chip off The Education Block

Anti CCSS Warriors, we have another education reform ‘wannabe’. Consider it a chip off the old CCSS Machine’s block.. What AM I talking about?! “Micro Schools”, of course! If you haven’t heard of them, that’s okay, I recently discovered these schools, too. One other question we will address is how this ties back to the […]

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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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Candidates: Would You? Could You?

February 1, 2016November 30, 2019Lynne Taylor2 Comments on Candidates: Would You? Could You?

Yesterday, Anti CCSS Warriors, I shared with you the news about the U.S. PIE (United States Parents Involved in Education) and their new campaign to dump the U.S. Dept. of Education due to its grasp on America through College and Career Readiness, Common Core State Standards, Career Tech Education, and all that goes with them. […]

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