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Backers Of Common Core Repeal Trying Legislative End-Run

Backers of a new bill to repeal the Common Core education standards will try a new path through the legislature, after a previous repeal attempt stalled in committee. The chair of that committee is not happy about the move. Ohio Public Radio's Karen Kasler reports.

House Education Committee Chair Gerald Stebelton called two hearings on the first Common Core repeal attempt by fellow Republican Andy Thompson of Marietta, but he’s made his position clear.  
“The Common Core is not going to go away in Ohio. As long as I’'m the chair of the House Education Committee, we'’re going to have Common Core.”  
 
Thompson’'s new repeal bill will go through a different committee, chaired by the bill'’s co-sponsor, House Speaker Pro Tem Matt Huffman of Lima. Stebelton says he thinks the repeal is – quoting here – “a misguided effort.”  
 
“I think it'’s an overreaction to a lot of very loud and shrill but very few proponents of dumping the Common Core standards.”  
 
And Stebelton says a billion state and federal dollars have already been spent on the Common Core initiative, and he’s concerned that the federal government might want some of its money back.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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