‘We now can look back and see that this federal bureaucracy simply hasn’t worked’
Congress is advancing a bill that would allow parents to opt their children out of Common Core, but some conservative members, such as Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., say Republicans should use their sizable majority to transfer much more control of schools back to parents and local officials and move closer to scrapping the Department of Education entirely.
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives re-authorized the No Child Left Behind law that was originally passed in 2002 but expired in 2007. The vote was 218-213. All Democrats opposed it, along with 27 Republicans.
Rep. Walker is a leading congressional advocate for decentralized control over education. He told WND and Radio America that the bill is definitely not perfect but does accomplish some important things.
“It does prevent federal coercion on Common Core. It also allows parents across the country to specifically opt out of Common Core for their children. Being a father of three, that’s something that’s very important to me,” said Walker, who is a bit worried about how the U.S. Senate might change the bill.
“It does go to the Senate, which can be frightening,” he said. “I know they’re working together on an education bill, and we hope that some of these amendments we’ve added would remain.”
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