Doug Lasken, writing on FlashReport, says it will cost California $1.6 billion to replace its current educational standards with the newly developed Common Core standards being pushed by President Obama. Lasken writes:
As a consultant for several education research institutes, including Fordham and Pioneer, I was involved in studying the wisdom of replacing individual state standards with one set of national standards . . . I, and virtually everyone involved in this work, considered California's standards to be in the ?no need to replace? category, first because they are among the best in the nation, and second because replacing them would be very expensive.
California's budget deficit is $25 billion. It makes no sense, Lasken argues, to spend another $1.6 billion to supplant its set of perfectly good standards: ?The Governor should ask his new appointees on the state board to keep our world-class standards and save $1.6 billion.?
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow