Utahns Against Common Core

PETITION BELOW

“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system, that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”

-Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Welcome to our website and petition. If you’ve never heard about Common Core, it is an initiative funded by special interests and the federal government with the goal of nationalizing education. You may have heard that these are better standards, or that the standards were created by the states, or that states retain local control over their own standards. This does not match the facts. The evidence shows that Utah has already signed away local control of education to outside entities. It shows that Common Core related initiatives violate state law. It shows that President Obama dangled a seductive carrot in the form of Race to the Top grants to get states to play jackpot with our money and after inserting the million dollar coin came up short. There is still time to right the ship if we act now and get our leaders to take action to reverse this power grab and keep control of our education system.

Please visit the Evidence page to get the full story. Once you understand the facts about Common Core, please return here and sign this petition which will be delivered to the Governor, State School Board, State Superintendent, Attorney General, and Legislators. Then please start contacting them and let them know you want out of Common Core.

If you would like to leave a comment and share your specific experience with Common Core, please visit the comments page.

What some leaders are saying about Common Core.

Common Core could highly impact a parent’s control of their child’s education and really cripple the role of local school districts. One technique in education we have yet to use, having tried all others, is freedom. -Congressman Rob Bishop

Common core is too common for Utah. We do not need regulations from outside of Utah directing our local education efforts. It is imperative that we maintain state supremacy and control of our most important resource – the children of Utah. -Utah Senator Margaret Dayton

Common core has been hijacked by Obama’s Dept of Education robbing Utah of its sovereign right to control education. -Utah Senator Mark B. Madsen

The wisest move all states could make to ensure that students learn to read, understand, and use the English language appropriately before they graduate from high school is first to abandon Common Core’s “standards”. -Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Former Asst Superintendent of MA, Current Professor at Univ. of AR

The proposed Common Core standard is similar in earlier grades but has significantly lower expectations with respect to algebra and geometry than the published standards of other countries. -Dr. Jonathan Goodman, a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute at New York University

[A state] shouldn’t relinquish control to a consensus of states any more than the federal government. -SC Gov. Nikki Haley on why their state is leaving Common Core

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PETITION

Utahns Against Common Core

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Based upon the factual evidence documented at www.UtahnsAgainstCommonCore.com I ask the Governor, State Board of Education, and State Superintendent to immediately take the steps necessary to rescind Common Core adoption, SBAC membership, the Race to the Top application, the No Child Left Behind waiver, and all other requirements upon the state that are related to these, and return to the Utah Core standards in use prior to Common Core adoption.

Second, I request the Utah Attorney General in conjunction with the Federalism Subcommittee of the Constitutional Defense Council, to review all documentation related to such applications and contracts as mentioned above to ensure our state sovereignty is held inviolate. I further request that this review of programs, documents, and applications, include an examination to ensure no private or personal information about students is transmitted outside of local schools and districts.

Third, inasmuch as the Utah State Board of Education adopted Common Core State Standards before they were even finalized, failed to perform a cost analysis related to statewide adoption, and failed to hold public meetings where citizens could review the actual standards prior to adoption, I request that a committee be appointed to rewrite Utah’s standards through a well-developed and transparent process that includes numerous public hearings and input from committees that utilizes knowledge-based, academic, clearly worded, grade-level specific, measurable standards from other states as models.

Fourth, give individual schools and districts full local control with the ability to adopt their own high standards, assessments, and research-based curriculum, and recognize that parents have a fundamental liberty interest in the education of their children.

Fifth, I request that a committee of legislators and citizens be formed to develop a 5-year plan to get Utah off all federal funding of education, and if the federal government threatens to pull non-education related funding away from the state as we pursue this course, that this knowledge should be made public and fought with the assistance of the state Attorney General.

Sixth, I ask that the state strengthen privacy laws and make sharing of personal student data with any state or federal entity a crime both for the one disseminating and the recipient who requested personal information.

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Organizations Against Common Core

Heritage Foundation
Freedom Works
Liberty Central
Heartland Institute
Sutherland Institute
Heritage Foundation
CATO Institute
Pioneer Institute
American Principles Project
Utah Eagle Forum
Joyce & Dick Kinmont Family
LDS Home Educators Assn.
American Leadership Fund
Standard of Liberty
Proper Role of Government
United Women’s Forum
Principled Liberty Foundation
Citizens for Strong Families
Freedom for Utah Education
Thomas Jefferson Center for Constitutional Studies

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5,731	Michael Ricks	Fairview	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,730	Stephanie Tasso	Alpine	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,729	Laraine S. Flood	Farmington	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,728	Bruce Ahlstrom	Huntsville	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,727	Mike McPheters	Ivins	Precinct Chair	May 20, 2013
5,726	Keith Larsen	Ephraim	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,725	Dean McNeill	Hurricane	Precinct Chair	May 20, 2013
5,724	Matthew Bell	Ogden		May 20, 2013
5,723	John Bromley	Lehi	Precinct Chair	May 20, 2013
5,722	Karl Brough	Nephi	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,721	E. Eavenson	WVC	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,720	S. Jensen	Sandy	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,719	Nic Chamberlain	St. George	Precinct Chair	May 20, 2013
5,718	Mitchell Christiansen	Layton	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,717	Byron Tuck	Howell	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,716	Keith Eddington	Roosevelt	Precinct Chair	May 20, 2013
5,715	Mary Aust	Spanish Fork	State Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,714	Jessica Johnson	Spanish Fork	County Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,713	Randy Crane	Herriman		May 20, 2013
5,712	Mark Madsen	Saratoga Springs	State Senator	May 20, 2013
5,711	Richard Jaussi	Orem		May 20, 2013
5,710	William Hart	Midvale	State Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,709	Brent Castagnetto	Lehi	State Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,708	Donna Burnham	Eagle Mountain	LDC	May 20, 2013
5,707	Richard M. Barnes	SLC	Leg 23 Chair	May 20, 2013
5,706	Amy Ellis	SLC	State Delegate	May 20, 2013
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5,704	Maude Beckman	Clearfield	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,703	Melanie Ballard	SLC		May 20, 2013
5,702	Kira Birkeland	Mtn. Green	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,701	Dave Weber	Saratoga Springs	State Chair	May 20, 2013
5,700	Suzette Greenwright	Erda	Pr. Chair / State Delegate	May 20, 2013
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5,671	Orval C. Harrison	SLC	Delegate	May 20, 2013
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5,669	Al Mosher	Springville	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,668	B. Terry White	Wellsville	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,667	John Taylor	Syracuse	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,666	Steven VanBibber	West Jordan	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,665	Dan Page	Washington	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,664	Greg Anderson	Murray	Precinct Chair/ Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,663	Jesse Spencer	Clearfield	Precinct Chair/ Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,662	Carlyle Harris	SLC	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,661	Sharon Miller	Riverton	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,660	Paul E. Keel	Herriman	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,659	Kris Olson	Alpine	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,658	Nancy Norris	Minersville	parent	May 20, 2013
5,657	Micah Owens	St. George	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,656	Jerald Dastrup	Sigurd	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,655	Kevin Baxter	WVC	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,654	Shaunna L. Cluff	Paragonah	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,653	William E. Dutson	Lynndy		May 20, 2013
5,652	Kelly Wayment	Kearns	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,651	Victor Phillip Rasmussen	Hyde Park	State Delegate	May 20, 2013
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5,649	John Brewer	Kearns	State Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,648	Bonnie Ralph	Ogden	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,647	Daniel Staheli	St. George	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,646	Hillary Butler	Salt Lake City	future mother	May 20, 2013
5,645	Yvonne Colby	Enterprise	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,644	Brady Jugler	Clearfield	Precinct Chair	May 20, 2013
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5,642	Judy M. Rice	Clearfield	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,641	Shirlee Forrester	Tooele	Delegate	May 20, 2013
5,640	David Rooker	West Valley City	Parent	May 20, 2013
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5,638	Teryn Ercanbrack	West Haven	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,637	Lauren Sweers		Concerned Student	May 20, 2013
5,636	Aimee Morrison	West haven	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,635	Kurtis Seegmiller	St. George	Parent	May 20, 2013
5,634	Susan Stokes	Logan	instructor	May 19, 2013
5,633	Kirsten Strack	Saratoga Springs	Parent and former PTA President	May 19, 2013
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5,630	Rosemary Hunter	Salt Lake City	county delegate	May 19, 2013
5,629	Winnie Killpack	Layton		May 19, 2013
5,628	Jeriel Turner	Bountiful	teacher	May 19, 2013
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5,534	Mike Hinckley	Syracuse	Parent	May 17, 2013
5,533	Jennifer McClellan	Salt lake city	against	May 17, 2013
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5,530	Dason Smith	Syracuse	Parent	May 17, 2013
5,529	Nathan Hunt	Ogden		May 17, 2013
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5,527	Sara Millward	Eagle Mountain	Parent	May 16, 2013
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5,520	Susan Wells	Hanksville	retired teacher	May 16, 2013
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5,512	Celeste Sellers	Hanksville	Parent	May 16, 2013
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5,495	Jenny Parker	Spanish Fork	Parent	May 16, 2013
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5,493	Michael Didericksen	Grantsville	Parent	May 16, 2013
5,492	Joshua Southwick	Logan	parent	May 16, 2013
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5,490	Judith Williams	Kaysville		May 16, 2013
5,489	Michele Raven	Spanish Fork	parent	May 16, 2013
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5,487	Kenneth Pabo			May 16, 2013
5,486	Marci Aston	Payson	Business Owner	May 16, 2013
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