National Review Online covered the withdrawal of Indiana from the Common Core State Standards:
On Monday, Indiana governor Mike Pence (R) signed legislation withdrawing the Hoosier state from the Common Core. What began as a bipartisan effort in education reform ended with Indiana as the first state to withdraw from the national standards that 45 other states and the District of Columbia have signed on to.
“I believe our students are best served when decisions about education are made at the state and local level,” Pence wrote in a statement. “By signing this legislation, Indiana has taken an important step forward in developing academic standards that are written by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers, and are uncommonly high.”
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As Maggie Gallagher of the American Principles Project detailed in National Review Online last year, Crossin and Tuttle began advocating against the Common Core only when their children started coming home with odd math homework, fewer novels to read, and more “Time magazine for kids.”
After calling around and finding out that neither their fellow parents nor elected officials had a clue what the Common Core was, Crossin and Tuttle spoke with Schneider, their state senator, who then proposed a bill in 2012 to bar the state board of education from adopting any standards developed under the Common Core. The bill ultimately failed, but the momentum begun by Crossin and Tuttle drove Indiana’s withdrawal from the Common Core just over two years later.
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