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Common Core Information Night
Do You Know What Common Core Is?
How will it affect YOUR Children & Towns?
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Common Core Informational Session!
Thursday March 27, 2014
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7 – 9:00pm
Medway Middle School Auditorium
45 Holliston Street, Medway, MA
Special Guest Speakers:
Sandra Stotsky, member of the Common Core Validation Committee and former senior associate commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, learn why she refused to sign off on the standards and hear her concerns for our children and communities.
Jamie Gass, of the Pioneer Institute, will detail how Common Core was developed and why there is national opposition to the new centralized standards.
Guest Moderator: Donna Colorio, Worcester School Committee 2011 – 2013, Adjunct
Sociology & Psychology Faculty Quinsigamond Community College and Massachusetts Teachers Association Member.
All Massachusetts school age children will ultimately be mandated to participate in the newly adopted national Common Core standards and data collection program. Who created this program? Who voted to adopt it? Will it lower Massachusetts teaching standards? Who will be collecting data about my child and why? How much will it cost Massachusetts tax payers?