Janet Duderman News Today

Standards exert too much federal influence in the classroom. even as establishment republicans, like former florida governor jeb bush, voiced their support. >> people dont recognize that dumb down standards are going to achieve -- yield the same result that weve had, then were really missing the chance to move forward as a country, so im totally committed to this. rahima ellis is -- and janet duderman is for the allies of public education. shes also the parent of two school-aged children. i wa...

Guess how the scores turned out. really bad. >> we have to go, but do you look for it to be repealed or just reformed? >> reform. we need everything to be re-evaluated. its insane to have a set of standards that the teachers arent allowed re-evaluate and look at. weve never had standards that are just set in stone and thats it. this is the way it is. we need to take a look at it and see whats wrong with it. >> a debate that will surely continue. rahema ellis, thank you so much, nbc news educatio...