Lawsuit: Taxpayer Funding of Common Core Unconstitutional Two anti-Common Core activists in Missouri have joined in filing a lawsuit against state officials that challenges the state’s payment of taxpayer funds to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), one of the two federally funded multi-state groups that are developing tests aligned with the Common Core standards. Gretchen Logue and Anne Gassel of the Missouri Coalition Against Common Core have joined former Republican gubernatorial candidate Fred N. Sauer as plaintiffs in the suit against Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D), Commissioner of Education Chris Nicastro, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), the Missouri State Board of Education, and other state officials. The lawsuit alleges that SBAC is “an unconstitutional interstate compact that was not approved by Congress, in violation of the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 3, Clause 10,” wrote Gassel at Missouri Education Watchdog, which she co-edits along with Logue. “The suit also alleges that Governor Nixon and Commissioner Nicastro’s course of conduct in committing Missouri to Common Core was in violation of numerous federal and state statutes.”
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 23:10:13 +0000
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