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.

Sources

  1. Eliminate Common Core: Common Core isn't leaving anytime soon PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020