National Association of State Boards of Education Sues OK Over Common Core Repeal EXCERPT: NASBE has received nearly $2 million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the primary source of private funding for the Common Core standards. The organization received $1,077,960 in February of 2011 “to build the capacity of State Boards of Education to better position them to achieve full implementation of the Common Core standards.” NASBE also received $800,000 in June of 2013 “to support a development plan for the organization and its efforts to provide training and information to implement Common Core state Standards.” “NASBE clearly had an interest in opposing the bill before it had the provisions they’re currently objecting to,” Nelson told NRO. Ford, however, told NRO that the state legislature lacks the authority and the knowledge to review and possibly amend the standards the BOE develops. The involvement of the state legislature “makes the development of standards very political, and I don’t like that,” Ford said. In an email statement to Breitbart News, White said that at the state school board meeting Thursday, “the board members tabled every single item on the agenda that had to do with creating the new standards.” “The board is appointed by the Governor and serve at her pleasure - according to the law that was created under our current superintendent, who was ousted in the worst showing of an incumbent in an election in recorded history,” said White. “None of them have education background. None.” White said her group is working on an amicus brief with a local attorney, but the law firm bringing the suit is asking it to be expedited for a hearing July 14 on the grounds it is necessary for the beginning of the school year.
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