Press Release
♦ Raleigh, NC—During his testimony today before the LRC Study Committee on Common Core State Standards, Lt. Governor Dan Forest, an outspoken critic of the Common Core rollout in North Carolina, called on the General Assembly to reconvene the North Carolina Education Standards and Accountability Commission (S.L. 1993-117, § 115C-105.1) for the purpose of reviewing each and every standard of the Common Core State Standards to judge whether they should be kept, fixed or thrown out of use in our public schools.
During his ten minute testimony, Forest expressed his belief that the Common Core standards roll out in NC represents a long term danger to local control of education decisions in our school systems. The Lt. Governor emphasized that it is time for our state to gain control over the standards that we are using to teach our children and that process begins with reviewing each standard in Common Core to make sure it reflects the goals, needs and values of our state.
“In the end it will not be standards that change our education system, but a wholesale, fundamental shift in the way we educate. Mastery Based learning, removing excessive, high-stakes testing and unnecessary mandates from our classrooms, treating our teachers like professionals, customizing curriculum to our students gifts, needs and desires. These are things that are going to transform education. Let’s put standards in their proper place and then get down to business,” said Forest.
For more information or to schedule an interview with Lt. Governor Forest, contact: Kami Mueller at 765-215-1334, or by email: kami.mueller@me.com
