Common-Core Standards Have Tea Party Seeing U.S. School Takeover
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Three months after Republican Paul LePage became Maine’s governor in 2011, he signed a law adopting the Common Core standards to better prepare students for college or careers.
Since then, the program to which he gave his imprimatur has become the focus of Tea Party anger. While LePage isn’t stopping implementation of the standards, he now disavows them.