2. He welcomed Common Core to New Jersey
In 2013 Christie praised Common Core, saying:
“We’re doing Common Core in New Jersey and we’re going to continue. And this is one of those areas where I’ve agreed more with the President than not,” Christie said on video to the audience at a school summit in Las Vegas on August 2013.
Christie signed onto the Common Core Standards in 2010 and continued to stand by the policy until November 2014 when he began publicly criticizing the testing standards, saying he was becoming frustrated with the implementation process.
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At a GOP dinner in New Hampshire in February, Christie said he was all for standards, but added that his “concern” is about “the federalization” of the implementation which is “taking away parental control of education.”
It’s unclear how Christie could not have predicted this as a side effect when in March he stated clearly, “We signed on to try to get funds during a really difficult fiscal time.”
New Jersey was one of the states to ask the federal government for funds through a “Race to the Top” program. Receiving grant money from the federal government to implement a program meant to nationalize testing standards won’t exactly allow a state to have localized control.
