{"id":23615,"date":"2015-05-21T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=23615"},"modified":"2015-05-21T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T16:16:05","slug":"iowa-republicans-what-is-common-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/05\/21\/iowa-republicans-what-is-common-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Republicans: &#8220;What Is Common Core?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common Core &#8212; it&#8217;s going to be the biggest education issue for 2016 Republican presidential candidates, right?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg Politics has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/videos\/2015-05-21\/iowa-voters-share-their-thoughts-on-jeb-bush\">video of a focus group session with Iowa Republicans<\/a>. Moderator John Heileman asks the panel (about 44 seconds in) if any of them think Common Core is important.<\/p>\n<p>The response? Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, one man asks: &#8220;What is Common Core?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/cdn.gotraffic.net\/projector\/latest\/bplayer.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nBPlayer(null, {\"id\":222229970,\"htmlChildId\":\"bbg-video-player-222229970\",\"serverUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/api\/embed\",\"idType\":\"AVMM\",\"autoplay\":false,\"log_debug\":false,\"ui_controls_popout\":false,\"ad_tag\":\"\",\"ad_tag_gpt_preroll\":true,\"ad_tag_gpt_midroll\":true,\"ad_tag_sz_preroll\":\"1x7\",\"ad_tag_sz_midroll\":\"1x7\",\"ad_network_id_preroll\":\"5262\",\"ad_network_id_midroll\":\"5262\",\"ad_tag_cust_params_preroll\":\"\",\"use_comscore\":true,\"ads_vast_timeout\":10000,\"ads_playback_timeout\":10000,\"wmode\":\"opaque\",\"comscore_ns_site\":\"bloomberg\",\"comscore_page_level_tags\":{\"bb_brand\":\"bpol\",\"bss_cont_play\":0},\"use_share_overlay\":true,\"share_metadata\":{\"canonical_url\":\"http:\/\/bloom.bg\/1FpPmqM\"},\"zone\":\"article\",\"source\":\"BPOLweb\",\"module_conviva_insights\":\"enabled\",\"conviva_account\":\"c3.Bloomberg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360,\"ad_tag_midroll\":\"\",\"offsite_embed\":true});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Political reporters love to seek out a candidate&#8217;s Achilles&#8217; heel. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a presumptive presidential candidate, has been one of the most vocal supporters of the shared math and language arts standards.<\/p>\n<p>Common Core has drawn passionate opposition &#8212; from conservatives and liberals &#8212; in Indiana, Florida and other states. But, maybe, Common Core won&#8217;t get the base moving like Obamacare did in past mid-term elections?<\/p>\n<p>States have long set standards with little attention or controversy. But many got concerned when the federal government offered incentives to states to adopt the Common Core State Standards.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Common Core is an issue that will sink Bush&#8217;s campaign seems far from certain.<\/p>\n<p>For a roundup of stuff we&#8217;ve written on what polling says about support for Common Core, click <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/12\/18\/what-polling-says-about-common-core-and-jeb-bushs-presidential-run\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/08\/20\/poll-support-for-common-core-falls-as-awareness-rises\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/08\/19\/poll-finds-support-for-common-core-declining-among-republicans-and-teachers\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/05\/05\/this-week-in-education-polling-the-politics-of-common-core\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Core &#8212; it&#8217;s going to be the biggest education issue for 2016 Republican presidential candidates, right? Maybe not. Bloomberg Politics has posted video of a focus group session with Iowa Republicans. Moderator John Heileman asks the panel (about 44 seconds in) if any of them think Common Core is important. The response? Silence. Finally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[987,1157,819,1026,862],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23620,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions\/23620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}