Three States Have Dropped Common Core, More To Follow

Common Core supporters say this is no big deal - but of course it is:

Oklahoma has officially dropped the polarizing Common Core academic standards — marking a major shift by former supporter Gov. Mary Fallin.

In a much-anticipated decision Thursday, Fallin, a Republican, signed legislation repealing the standards Thursday afternoon. She said Oklahoma has the ability to develop superior standards and federal meddling in advocating for the standards drove her decision.

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Just this January, at a National Governors Association meeting, Fallin defended the academic standards

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Fallin’s signing of the bill was a wild card, unlike decisions by fellow red-state governors in South Carolina and Indiana. Nikki Haley and Mike Pence had openly criticized the standards in the months preceding their approval of legislation authorizing state-written standards.

It matters that a Republican governor who was shilling for the Common Core just six months ago has just been pressured to sign a bill into law that repeals the standards in the state of Oklahom.

That's three states out quite a few more on the horizon:

About 100 bills to slow, stop or reverse Common Core requirements were introduced in state legislatures across the country this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, an 85 percent increase over the year before.

North Carolina may be the next to drop the CCSS.

CCSS proponents want to make like these defections don't matter - three states out, 42 still in, blah, blah blah.

 But you can see which way the trajectory is going on this issue - CCSS opponents and critics have the momentum  and the politicians are starting to listen.

Even a CCSS shill like Mary Fallin, who just last January thought Common Core was swell.