Ted Cruz's K-12 Agenda: Pro-School Choice, Anti-Common Core

This article is about what Ted Cruz plans to do when he is president. He has promised to have the U.S. Department of Education end the common core state standards and he also plans to abolish the federal Education Department bureaucracy.  The article also talks about Cruz’s “k-12 theme” which is his support for charter schools. Article also describes how Cruz introduced the Educational Freedoms Act account which helps support what Cruz wants with private vouchers and common core classes.

Throughout the article quotes from Cruz said that he wanted to end common core regulations which goes along with the federal bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of Education. He also said that education is the country’s biggest civil right issue at the moment, which he said is why he is making that the main focus of his campaign. Cruz also is planning to end appropriations to the U.S. Department of education. I think this fits in well with our unit on bureaucracy because it talks about the bureaucracies of the U.S. Department of Education and federal Education Department. Even though it does fit in well with the lesson I don’t really think Cruz makes sense in what he is saying. He says education is the most important civil issue at this time but then he also wants to eliminate common core classes which in my mind are the most important classes. I think he says he is on both sides of this argument, and will not get committee clearance on this issue, which is not making his “promise” to the country very strong, but in the end the article does fit in well with our unit.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/04/20/ted-cruzs-k-12-agenda-pro-school-choice-anti-common.html