During consideration of the Student Success Act(H.R. 5), Representative Lee Zeldin (RN.Y.) introduced an amendment that would allow states to withdraw from the Common Core State Standards or any other specific standards, if they choose, without fear of any direct or indirect penalty from the federal government.
The House adopted Zeldin’s amendment on July 8, 2015 by a vote of 373 to 57 (Roll Call 410). We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the federal government has no constitutional authority to interject itself into the education sector, and Common Core is intended to create a national curriculum leading to nationalized education.
