#Stopcommoncore Twitter Rally led by parents reaches millions

April 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Parent Led Reform, in collaboration with Truth in American Education, hosted a Twitter rally yesterday to protest Federally mandated common core standards. The social media event has tracked an impressive following by reaching 2,493,308 Twitter users as reported by NuviaApp.com. Parents, teachers and citizens are concerned about the nationalization of education standards, data collection, and the subpar academic expectations inherent in Common Core Standards.

“Parents and community members are not sitting quietly on the sidelines while bureaucrats make bad decisions that affect our children,” said Karin Piper, Executive Director of Parent Led Reform. “It is time for politicians to rethink the notion that they know better than parents. Bad education policies that our children pay the price for will simply no longer be accepted. And social media is a tool that 2,493,308 citizens used to make that message clear.”

Piper states an encore is being planned due to the immense success of the event and public requests.

The #Stopcommoncore rally included a list of topic experts:

•          Emmett McGroarty - American Principles Project (@approject)

•          Joy Pullmann - The Heartland Institute and Editor of School Reform News (@joypullmann)

•          Ben DeGrow - The Independence Institute (@ediswatching)

•          James Shuls - Show-Me Institute (@shulsie)

•          Shane Vander Hart - CaffeinatedThoughts.com; and Truth In American Education. (@TruthinAmEd and @shanevanderhart)

·   ParentLedRefom.org is a multi-issue organization that projects parental power into education reform. www.Parentledreform.org.
• Truth in American Education (http://truthinamericaneducation.com) is a national, non-partisan group of concerned parents and citizens.  We view educational issues from different perspectives; however, we are in agreement, that the promotion and implementation of elements of the Race to the Top (RTTT) policies are misguided and harmful. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), CCSS assessments, and state longitudinal data systems development along with associated privacy issues are being implemented nationwide with insufficient research-based evidence and insufficient public examination and discourse