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Jul122014

Zais Plans to Wipe Common Core from S.C.

Lawmakers who wanted to see Common Core disappear from S.C. classrooms could not kill the education standards this spring. But lame-duck state schools Superintendent Mick Zais says he has a plan to make Common Core a thing of the past in South Carolina.

The Richland Republican, whose term ends when a new superintendent takes office in January, said he will instruct a group of educators tasked with revising the state’s K-12 education standards to ignore Common Core.

Zais’ move — to shape what S.C. school children should know and be able to do in different grades, long after Zais has left office — has the support of some Common Core opponents and at least one candidate to succeed him.

But some state leaders, including the chairmen of the two education boards that must approve any new standards, said throwing Common Core out of the process of writing new standards violates state law.

 

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