Federal hijack of Common Core gets more obvious

While the Common Core State Standards were not created by the federal government, actions with federal grants through Race to the Top competitions and waivers from the No Child Left Behind law have made it obvious that the federal government has more or less hijacked those standards.

New evidence of the federal takeover arose recently when the US Department of Education cancelled the Oklahoma waiver from No Child after that state voted Common Core out of its school system.

In essence, Oklahoma has lost control of its own education standards, at least in the eyes of the US Department of Education. Maybe it won’t be long before a second Common Core suit comes along to match the one Louisiana already filed.