Stand up for the facts!
Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.
I would like to contribute
Common Core hasn't been repealed
Common Core is a set of standards for English and math unveiled in 2010 that came out of years of discussion between private nonprofit groups and state education departments. They were put in place in Wisconsin several months before Gov. Scott Walker was first elected in 2010.
Walker's pledge to repeal Common Core reflected opposition to the standards by many conservatives across the country, although the issue has largely died down since then.
Walker's 2015-'16 state budget reiterated what state law already provided: that no school board is required to adopt Common Core. But the budget did not repeal the standards.
And no repeal action has been taken up since then.
Amy Hasenberg, a gubernatorial spokeswoman, told us Walker encouraged the state Department of Public Instruction to remove Common Core standards when the department created a plan to comply with what is known as the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.
But again, that's not repealing Common Core.
We rate this a Promise Broken.
Our Sources
PolitiFact Wisconsin, "Complicated relationship with the Common Core continues," July 17, 2015
Email, Gov. Scott Walker spokeswoman Amy Hasenberg, May 23, 2018