Common Core, sand mining bills in jeopardy

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MADISON — Proposals to rewrite Common Core academic standards, increase reporting of private schools in the voucher program and limit regulations on sand mining in Wisconsin appear unlikely to pass as the Legislature nears the end of its session.

Those are just three of numerous bills in limbo as the Assembly plans to wrap up its work for the year next week. The Senate also expects to meet only two more days, finishing on April 1.

Anything that hasn’t passed when lawmakers adjourn would have to be re-introduced next year, when the political landscape could be drastically altered following the November elections. Half of the Senate, all 99 members of the Assembly and Gov. Scott Walker face election this year.

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Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said this week that the chances are slim for anything that hasn’t already been approved by the Senate. That would include the bill giving the Legislature the power to rewrite academic standards, which has yet to be voted on by the Senate Education Committee.

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bummer...

[Half-Century Man]

1. That simplifies things a bit

Win or die.

Band together to free ourselves or Live with a GIANT Koch monkey on our collective back, one so large it will crush us all.

[AllyCat]

2. Can someone tell me why they work so few days?

And they accuse us of being lazy not working four jobs.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Only enough to get GOP propsals through and nothing else

and the convenient excuse to save taxpayer money.