Politico.com reports today that Corbett is against the Common Core but maybe he is for them, or was until the election:
“NEW SITE FOR KEYSTONE STATE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania state education officials say a website for collecting public comment on the state’s new academic standards will be live sometime this week. Gov. Tom Corbett, currently fighting an uphill battle for a second term, called for public hearings on the standards in math and English last month. That confused some state lawmakers who thought Corbett backed the standards, which were approved last year by the state Board of Education and look like a slightly tweaked version of the Common Core. But Corbett said the public hearings were “the final phase” in a three-year fight “to permanently roll back” the Common Core. The new website will be interactive, a state education official told Morning Education, and anyone interested can submit their comments or feedback through the website. It will act as a repository for two to three months before state officials schedule public hearings on the standards.”

i don’t really think Corbett is guided by any principles other than his determination to privatize schools and slap organized labor around. He’s an opportunist, nothing more.
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He is against it as he supports charter $chool$ which pick and choose which students they accept, they decline any of the students with disabilities and yet ripoff the districts by charging for a whole year up front and not reimbursing when a student is sent back to the district even though the charter gets ALL the money for the 180+days of education at enrollment. And since theyre a buisness they do not have to take pssa tests unlike schools
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