PIERRE | National Common Core standards are “a sham and a lie” meant to transform “a free America” to “world socialism (and) communism,” a Caputa woman told the Board of Education on Monday. Florence ...

There isn’t a requirement that a South Dakota legislator must be able to count votes or accurately sense public sentiment. There also isn’t a requirement that South Dakota news reporters must be able ...

Many archconservatives — tea party heroes Rand Paul and Ted Cruz among them — decry the system as a top-down takeover of local schools. The standards were developed and are being implemented by states ...

In September 2014, during the final weeks before he won re-election to a second term as Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker made a bold pledge about Common Core, the school standards that have roiled ...