State Legislation:

New Bill on Data  Privacy
Tell you legislator to support this new bill: www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-014/billintroduced/House/pdf/2013-HIB-4836.pdf

National Legislation:

Arne Duncan to California: No Data, No Funds   As this article points out, “A chilling example for other states.  Shut off the data spigot for even a short time and the U.S. Department of Education will tighten the purse strings.”            

“Top Ten Professors Calling Out Common Core’s So-called College Readiness”

Rep. Tom McMillin has a new editorial in the Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130916/OPINION01/309160004/1008/OPINION01/Engler-sells-out-Michigan-s-future 

www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/04/critics-claim-common-core-brings-chaos-not-accountability-to-classroom/

How Common Core Doubles Down on No Child Left Behind

www.truthinamericaneducation.com (GB episode)

www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-other-federal-takeover/

www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/120208_

www.pioneerinstitute.org/

pioneerinstitute.org/academic-standards/

pioneerinstitute.org/?s=road+national+curriculum 

blog.heritage.org/2012/04/23/why-states-should-hop-off-the-national-standards-bandwagon/

www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/18/if-it-werent-so-sad-it-would-be-hilarious-educators-continue-to-reveal-and-blast-common-core-standards/

www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/14/is-the-common-core-initiative-dumbing-down-americas-students/

townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/01/23/rotten-to-the-core-obamas-war-on-academic-standards-part-1-n1495257/page/full/

townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/01/25/rotten-to-the-core-part-2-readin-writin-and-deconstructionism-n1497018/page/full/

townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/03/01/rotten-to-the-core-part-iii-lessons-from-texas-and-the-growing-grassroots-revolt-n1523233

townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2013/03/15/time-to-opt-out-of-creepy-fed-ed-datamining-racket-n1534759

Organizations:

Truth in Education

Pioneer Institute

Stop Common Core in MI