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[–] Battlefat ago 

Title 1 funds were used as leverage by the Obama administration to ram common core down states throats. If they balked, the feds were going to defer administration of funds until the State could provide definitive proof that they had a curriculum in place that would meet the standards of the soon to be implemented Common Core. The States had no leverage because there was no written curriculum at the time of the mandate. Essentially, the administration said, here’s your carrot and stick — Title 1 funding, take it or leave it. Now they were never denying the disbursement, but made the burden of generating a curriculum impossible to substantiate in a period of approximately three months, or the duration of the summer preceding the implementation of CC for the upcoming school year. There were no standards because as I said, nothing had been written, and any procedural review of the curriculum of the State challenging the mandate had not yet been set. Which means the States were over a barrel. And yet some states tried, because some states are more fiscally responsible than others and had an emergency fund for just such a situation where the Feds had overstepped their bounds.

I know who my enemies are, but for the vast majority of people in the nation, you are correct, there is little to nothing they can do about it except in the extreme, which isn’t something that I can promote personally, but as I’ve said before, I will not challenge those that see fit to determine the appropriate measures for themselves