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Common Core Information Night

Do You Know What Common Core Is?



How will it affect YOUR Children &
Towns?



Please join us for a



Common Core
Informational Session!

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Thursday
March 27, 2014



 7 – 9:00pm

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Medway
Middle School Auditorium



45 Holliston Street, Medway, MA



 



Special Guest Speakers:



Sandra Stotsky, member of the Common Core
Validation Committee and former senior associate commissioner in the
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, learn
why she refused to sign off on the standards and hear her concerns for our
children and communities.



 



Jamie Gass, of the Pioneer Institute, will detail how Common Core
was developed and why there is national opposition to the new centralized
standards.



 



Guest
Moderator: Donna Colorio
, Worcester School Committee 2011 – 2013, Adjunct



Sociology & Psychology Faculty Quinsigamond
Community College and Massachusetts Teachers Association Member.



 



All Massachusetts
school age children will ultimately be
mandated to
participate in the
newly adopted national Common Core standards and data collection program. Who
created this program? Who voted to adopt it? Will it lower Massachusetts teaching standards? Who will
be collecting data about my child and why? How much will it cost Massachusetts tax payers?   

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