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Rick Allen: Under H.R. 5, States are protected from being coerced into adopting Common Core by the Department of Education, and they…

On the recordJuly 8, 2015
Under H.R. 5, States are protected from being coerced into adopting Common Core by the Department of Education, and they have the right to opt out of any program under the law. Mr. Speaker, all of these are significant and needed steps to put the responsibility of education back where it belongs, and that is with the States, local school districts, parents, and the educators, as they know what is best. I urge my colleagues to support H.R. 5.
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia
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Jul 8, 2015

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