Academic Quote by Jeb Bush

There isn't really any Common Core any more. Each state is able to set the standards for their state. They may elect to adopt…

— Betsy DeVos

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

— Jeb Bush

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.

— Scott Pruitt

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be…

— Jeb Bush

As a matter of law the states recognized no constraints on their legislative scope other than those that were self-imposed. Even where particular state…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It…

— Jeb Bush

It is necessary and critical for states to have flexibility to determine how to identify and improve schools.

— Betsy DeVos

The Supreme Court has been clear that states have the right to protect their citizens against out-of-state regulations that would burden those citizens.

— Josh Hawley

Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it…

— Marco Rubio

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

— William H. Seward

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

— Hugo Grotius