(Breitbart) – Senator Ted Cruz spoke out
against Common Core during a speech to a Florida conservative
organization. “We should repeal every word of Common Core,” he said.
“We should get the federal government out of the business of curriculum.” This
was not the first time Cruz said “no” to Common Core, but it was a
great opportunity for the presidential hopeful to express his
steadfast opposition to the progressive education reform movement standards.
Cruz’ remarks came one day after his potential GOP presidential
rival, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, endorsed Common Core.
Cruz described Common Core as “national
standards being dictated from Washington” during an appearance at the
influential anti-tax Club for Growth’s annual winter meeting in Palm Beach,
Florida, on Friday, February 27, ABC News reported.
“There is no remedy when they are dictating
what’s being taught to your kids,” said the Senator. His comments stood in stark
contrast to those from Bush, who told the same group that the education goals
would help more students be prepared for college or better jobs, also according
to ABC News.
Breitbart News reported that at the annual
suburban Washington, DC-held Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),
Bush stood by his support for Common Core. He claimed that the standards
were not a federal government takeover of education.
Cruz, on the other hand, has been consistently
and emphatically opposed to the Common Core. He is also the
lead cosponsor of the Enhancing Educational Opportunities for All Act, a
measure introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that hopes to expand school choice,Breitbart
News reported.
On February 21, Cruz appeared on
Shark Tank where he spoke out against Big Education. He said “It is wrong and
we need to stand up against Common Core and stop it.”
The popular conservative US senator from Texas
emphasized that “education is far too important for it to be controlled by
unelected bureaucrats in Washington,” while pointing to his own young daughters
Caroline, 6, and Catherine, 4. The Senator said he understood how other
parents felt about their children’s schooling, commenting that education “needs
to be at the state level or the local level where we as parents have direct
control over the standards, over the mores, over the curriculum that is being
taught to our kids.”
He added, “Common Core is being used by the
federal government as a mechanism to force a uniform curriculum, to put federal
bureaucrats in charge of what is taught to our kids.”
Cruz believed that the only way to stop Common
Core, or even change the direction of the United States from the lawless path
it is currently on under the Obama administration, may rest with the
grassroots. He reiterated a comment he has said before, “If we look to
Washington for the solution, these problems will not be solved.”
Soberingly, he stated, “Washington is fundamentally broken.”
Cruz pointed out that part of the reason why
the Stop Common Core movement has gained so much momentum is because “a whole
bunch of Republicans joined with a whole bunch of Democrats (who) agree that
the federal government shouldn’t stick its nose in the middle of education.”
The Senator added that the biggest divide in
America today isn’t between Americans in the two political parties. But rather,
he said it is between career politicians in both parties and the American
people. He suggested that the only way to reverse Common Core is for grassroots
movements all over this country to rise up and say ‘enough is enough.” He
said constituents should be holding their elected officials accountable —
Republican and Democrat.
During the Shark Tank interview, Cruz drew
parallels between presidents Carter and Obama, alluding to another time in history
when a grassroots movement arose out of frustration with leadership and the
direction of the nation. He was referring to the Reagan Revolution.
The controversial Common Core standards are
often positioned by supporters as voluntary and state led. The federal
government’s role; however, has been central to the implementation of standards
that have been nicknamed “Obamacare for Education,” which Breitbart
California reported.
Last year, Cruz expressed his opposition to
the federal education standards following an event for the Network of Iowa
Christian Home Educators, Breitbart News reported. At
that time, he called school choice the “civil rights issue of the 21st
Century.”
Cruz, is one on the lengthy list of 2016
potential GOP presidential candidates that includes Bush, Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Louisiana Governor Bobby
Jindal, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Dr.
Ben Carson, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
(R-KY).
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/02/28/ted-cruz-we-should-repeal-every-word-of-common-core/
http://www.teaparty.org/ted-cruz-repeal-every-word-common-core-86426/
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