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JEFFERSON CITY,
Mo., May 15, 2014 – Both chambers of the Missouri legislature gave
final approval today to a bill to end the state’s involvement in the
Common Core educational standards. The bill will now go to the
Governor’s desk for a signature
House Bill 1490 (HB1490)
passed through the state senate on May 1 by a 24-8 margin. It had
previously passed the house by a 131-12 vote. Since the Senate version
differed from the House version, the House had an opportunity to accept
the amendments offered by the Senate, but refused. That sent the bill to
a joint conference committee, where members of both chambers worked out
the differences in the bill and finalized the version going to the
governor.
A
spokesman for Rep. Bahr, the bill’s chief sponsor, said, “The
conference was requested by the floor leader since the house passed a
four page bill and the senate sent back a 44 page version. He did not
feel like there would be enough time for all 150 house reps to pour over
all of the new information in the bill to pass it speedily and also
doing their duty.”
The
final version of the bill includes important steps to re-establish
local control of education and end involvement with Common Core in the
state. HB1490 states that “[each] local school board shall be
responsible for the approval and adoption of curriculum used by the
school district.” It also would sanction “work groups composed of
education professionals to develop and recommend academic performance
standards” which would ultimately be used to replace Common Core by the
2016-2017 school year.
The
reasoning behind the delay in scrapping Common Core is to smooth the
transition back to a normal curriculum. This would give the schools
enough time to jettison the Common Core standards that have been foisted
upon them without any undue harm being done to the development of
students.
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