Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 21
Eliminate Common Core
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Common Core is a disaster and we will end it.”
- Promised
- , Campaign rallies and interviews
- Re-promised
- 20 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Education
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Common Core standards are adopted by states, not the federal government, and the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 already barred federal mandates on standards. Most states retained standards based on Common Core throughout the term. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.