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Obama Punishes Oklahoma for Dropping Common Core

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter At the urging of grassroots conservative activists, just this year, the controversial Common Core standards were repealed in Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Missouri. On Friday, the Federal government struck back against Oklahoma. As a result of the Common Core repeal, President Obama’s U.S. Department of Education told Oklahoma officials … Continued
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September 3, 2014

Rainy Day Patriots Denounce Bice Pay Raise

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, August 15, Alabama’s reportedly largest Tea Party group, the Rainy Day Patriots, wrote a letter denouncing the decision by the Alabama Board of Education to award Alabama School Superintendent Tommy Bice a contract extension and a mammoth $1000 per week pay raise. In an, “Open Letter to … Continued
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August 20, 2014

North Carolina Will Rewrite Common Core

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, July 22, responding to a rising wave of opposition to the controversial new Common Core, Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed legislation that includes the review and revision of the State’s reading and math curriculum in K-12 schools. The law directs the North Carolina Board … Continued
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July 23, 2014

Common Core Increasingly Unpopular with Parents

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter A new Rasmussen Poll shows that support for Common Core among Americans with school-age children has dropped dramatically, as more and more states get further along in their implementation of the highly controversial new education standards, being promoted by President Barack Hussein Obama’s Department of Education. According to the … Continued
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July 1, 2014

Mooney Joins Most of HD 43 Field in Opposing Common Core

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Earlier today the Alabama Political Reporter reported that Arnold Mooney stated at a candidates forum in Indian Springs that he opposes returning to the 2007 education standards and thus opposes the repeal of the unpopular Common Core Standards.  While that was what our reporter wrote down in his notes, … Continued
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May 29, 2014

Gov. Bentley Refunds Stop Common Core Money

By Lee Hedgepeth Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY – According to campaign finance reports filed this week, Governor Bentley received – and then swiftly refunded – a donation from the Stop Common Core Political Action Committee, a so-called PAC whose purpose is supporting candidates opposed to the educational standards. The filing records a campaign donation of … Continued
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May 28, 2014

HD 43 Candidates Bitterly Divided Over Common Core

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, May 22, six of the seven candidates in Alabama House District 43 attended the HD:43 forum at the New Hope Cumberland Baptist Church.  While the six Republicans agreed on most issues, the candidates expressed widely differing views on Common Core; the issue that has divided Republicans across … Continued
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May 28, 2014

Stan Cooke Campaigns in Gardendale

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Dr. Stan Cooke (R) from Sumiton was campaigning at the Jefferson County Republican Party Straw Poll event at the Gardendale Civic Center on Saturday, May 10.  Stan Cooke is running for the Republican nomination for Alabama Lieutenant Governor. Cooke told the large crowd, “I am here to ask you … Continued
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May 19, 2014