Walker says Wisconsin can do better than Common Core

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – We can do it better than you.

That was the message from Gov. Scott Walker Tuesday, as he called for Wisconsin lawmakers to hold public hearings on Common Core State Standards.

Walker thinks the state can replace those national standards with its own set of stronger standards.

“I’d like the Legislature to hold those hearings,” Walker said in a response to Wisconsin Reporter’s question on Common Core. “And in the larger context I’d like us to be in the position where we can identify our own unique standards that I think in many ways will be higher and more aggressive than the ones they’re talking about.”

Walker’s comments boost Common Core opponents that have pushed for public hearings and legislative study. Those requests were passed in the state budget; however, co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Council committee Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon and Rep. Joan Ballweg, R-Markesan, the lawmakers responsible for scheduling the hearings and commissioning the study, have not done either.

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