http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/04/another_bill_to_repeal_common.html#incart_riverAn effort to repeal Alabama's use of Common Core State Standards in public schools is back in the state Legislature.
The Senate Education Policy Committee on Wednesday will hold a public hearing on a bill by Sen. Rusty Glover, R-Semmes, that would repeal the standards the state Board of Education voted to adopt in 2010.
Glover, a former high school history teacher, says he hears more from people about Common Core than all other issues combined and that the vast majority of teachers and parents he has talked to oppose the standards.
Among complaints Glover says he hears are that parents and grandparents can't help young children with their math homework anymore because of new methods and that English classes focus less on classical literature and more on informational texts.
"They (teachers) really can't say anything openly because there is pressure from up top not to," Glover said.
The Common Core standards are a list of concepts that students should grasp at each grade level. They apply to math and English language arts.
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