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personal data on students that would identify them and then track them, and certainly any effort to give that personal information to the federal government. i am steadfast in my belief that parents, parents, should ultimately decide. the best for their children s education, whether it s public schools, private schools, religious schools, or home schools. i believe education is a local or state function, not a federal one. sadly, the very label, common core, has come to be associated with things i detest, like agenda-driven curriculum that indoctrine yates instead of educates. i m coinced the term common core needs to disappear from the lexicon of education policy. it s a toxic term because it s come to mean things that most of us can t stomach. like top-down federal intrusion into the local schools where you live. but common core, as it was designed, had nothing to do with the federal government. it was conceived and controlled

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