Legislation would create working groups to devise new education standards

Legislators are advancing a bill in the final week of the session that would require the state of Missouri to revisit the use of Common Core educational standards. The move comes as two dozen Common Core opponents gathered in Joplin on Tuesday night for a presentation by Mary Byrne, of the Missouri Coalition Against Common Core. That meeting was sponsored by the Southwest Missouri Pachyderm Club.

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