Anti-Common Core Bill Fails
to Pass Out of House Education Committee
March 13, 2014
The House Education Committee held its hearing on SB 167 this afternoon, March 12, 2014. The committee voted on a new Senate substitute bill that was similar to the version that had passed out of the Senate last week. Unfortunately, the bill failed to pass by a vote of 13-5.
The thirteen committee members who opposed SB 167 have now openly aligned themselves with Washington, D.C. bureaucrats, special interests, the Chamber and the education establishment against the children, parents and concerned citizens of Georgia. By opposing SB 167, the legislators said "yes" to continued participation in the national standards movement. It won't be long before our children are subjected to national science, social studies, health and sex education standards.
These same thirteen have also said "yes" to the continued data-tracking on Georgia's students. The Georgia Department of Education will now continue to develop, unimpeded, a longitudinal data tracking system that will track students from the cradle to the grave. Personally identifiable data collected by third parties, done so outside the bounds of any contract, as that which often happens in the virtual world of free educational software applications, is left totally unprotected. Student privacy is now a free-for-all and ready to be harvested by any vendor who chooses to do business in Georgia.
The influencers who had the chance to protect Georgia's children chose to put politics over their progress. Common Core will do to our educational system what ObamaCare has done to the healthcare industry.
Would you please take the time to thank the five committee members who voted on the side of Georgia children?
Voted in favor of passing SB 167
Rep. Mike Dudgeon -R
Phone: 404-656-0298 | E-mail
Rep. Ed Seztler - R
Phone: 404-656-7857 | E-mail
Rep. Sam Teasley - R
Phone: 404-656-0177 | E-mail
Rep. Joyce Chandler - R
Phone: 404-656-0254 | E-mail
Rep. Davis Casas - R
Phone: 404-656-0254 | E-mail
Voted in opposition to SB 167
Rep. Tommy Benton-R
Rep. Amy Carter-R
Rep. Valerie Clark-R
Rep. Tom Dickson-R
Rep. Terry England-R
Rep. Mike Glanton-D
Rep. Wayne Howard-D
Rep. Margaret Kaiser-D
Rep. Howard Maxwell-R
Rep. Rahn Mayo-D
Rep. Alisha Morgan-D
Rep. Randy Nix-R
Rep. Willie Talton-R
