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MSNBC and NPR’s common love affair with Common Core.

Common core certainly is controversial. It’s like the evolution fight in Texas on steroids times ten nationwide. NPR and MSNBC, not as education friendly as one might think, funded by the Walton’s and Education Nation anybody, seemed to have recently taken a side and both seem to be pro-common core.

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Where is the outrage over Rick Scott's appointments to the state board of education?

Before people blame unions and teachers for the state of education I hope they consider whom Rick Scott has appointed to the state board of education. First there is local Gary Chartrand a grocer who started a charter school who has never taught a day in his life. Then there is Andy Tuck a citrus grower and where he too has never taught a day in his life he was on the school board in his hometown. However before we celebrate a modicum of education related experience, this is what the Tampa Times has quoted him saying about evolution, "As a person of faith, I strongly oppose any study of evolution as fact at all. I’m purely in favor of it staying a theory and only a theory, I won’t support any evolution being taught as fact at all in any of our school. Both of them have also donated considerable sums of money to Rick Scott’s reelection campaign

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