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| Date: From: Subject: | 2/22/2013 12:39:40 PM Dee Black--HSLDA Mississippi: Calls Needed to Stop Common Core Standards Bill |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== Calls Needed to Stop Common Core Standards Bill Dear HSLDA Members and Friends: Your calls and emails are needed to stop Mississippi Senate Bill 2056, which involves the implementation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for college readiness. The CCSS are standards published by the National Governors Association in 2010 for public schools. But Senate Bill 2056 would extend the application of the CCSS to college readiness and thus college admission. State colleges and universities in Mississippi may determine whether to admit a student based on his or her performance in courses whose contents reflect the CCSS. Obviously this would discriminate against the vast majority of homeschool graduates whose secondary curriculum was not based on the CCSS to the extent that they would probably be denied entrance to a Mississippi college or university. Senate Bill 2056 passed the Senate on February 13. It is now in the House Universities and Colleges Committee, which could vote on this bill at any time. Members of the committee need to know that Mississippi homeschoolers do not want this bill to become law. Action Requested 1. Please call and/or email members of the House Universities and Colleges Committee with this message or something similar in your own words: "Please vote against Senate Bill 2056, which would extend the application of Common Core State Standards to college readiness. Students who graduate from a nonpublic school should not have to use a public school curriculum in order to be admitted to college." If your last name begins with A-K, please contact: Nolan Mettetal, Chairman (601) 359-3331 nmettetal@house.ms.gov Gregory Holloway, Vice-Chairman (601) 359-2435 gholloway@house.ms.gov Toby Barker (601) 359-3362 tbarker@house.ms.gov Richard Bennett (601) 359-2860 rbennett@house.ms.gov Cecil Brown (601) 359-9396 cbrown@house.ms.gov Kelvin Buck (601) 359-4083 kbuck@house.ms.gov Kimberly Campbell Buck (601) 359-4083 kcbuck@house.ms.gov Clara Burnett (601) 359-2422 cburnett@house.ms.gov Lester Carpenter (601) 359-2425 lcarpenter@house.ms.gov Bob Evans (601) 359-3354 bevans@house.ms.gov Joey Hood (601) 359-3339 jhood@house.ms.gov Mac Huddleston (601) 359-3340 mhuddleston@house.ms.gov Bill Kinkade bkinkade@house.ms.gov If your last name begins with L-M, please contact: John Thomas "Trey" Lamar, III (601) 359-2431 jlamar@house.ms.gov Hank Lott (601) 359-2435 hlott@house.ms.gov Steve Massengill (601) 359-3338 smassengill@house.ms.gov Brad Mayo (601) 359-2431 bmayo@house.ms.gov Doug McLeod (601) 359-3311 dmcleod@house.ms.gov Pat Nelson (601) 359-3339 pnelson@house.ms.gov Brad A. Oberhousen (601) 359-2439 boberhousen@house.ms.gov Randall Patterson (601) 359-4074 rhpatterson@house.ms.gov Bobby Shows (601) 359-3337 bshows@house.ms.gov Gary V. Staples (601) 359-3017 gstaples@house.ms.gov Jody Steverson (601) 359-2435 jsteverson@house.ms.gov Tommy Taylor ttaylor@house.ms.gov Adrienne Wooten (601) 359-2433 awooten@house.ms.gov Charles Young, Jr. (601) 359-2432 cyoung@house.ms.gov 2. Please forward this email to every family you know who is not a member of HSLDA and urge them to contact members of the committee about this bill. View the text of this bill: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=17318 For more information on the Common Core State Standards, please see our article: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=17319 Please call or email today! Sincerely, Dewitt T. Black, III HSLDA Senior Counsel P.S. We greatly value you and your support--it is a privilege to serve you! 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