Are you informed?

 

Forty-five states plus the District of Columbia have signed up for the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Two states, New York and Kentucky, have already begun implementing CCSS. In New York State, there are groups and organizations that enroll tens of thousands of people each that adamantly oppose CCSS. There are entire districts that are "opting out" of the new standards. On the other side, administrators, big businesses, and politicians staunchly support the standards and have sponsored and assisted implementation with millions of dollars. One side raves that the new standards impose curriculum and testing that are borderline child abuse; the other raves that the new standards are the gateway to our children's futures. Where does this opposition come from?

 

The new educational legislation should be common knowledge. Because of this belief, I am working to take language contained in laws, statutes, bills, standards, curriculum, and other publications and transform it into information that is digestible and reader-friendly for the public at large. This would work to dispel the misinformation that is currently inundating online and printed publications. Lack of information and misinformation serves only to confuse people.

 

I am hopeful that I can distill political information into understandable and reliable information. By extracting the pure information, interpreting such data, and providing it to the public in an easy-to-read format, I am determined to set biases aside and provide the American public with the information necessary to make their own decisions about this controversial subject. With implementation extending nationwide within, not years, but weeks, this is absolutely necessary.