Time for Gov. Baker to take a stand on Common Core

As a sitting governor in a blue state, Charlie Baker must think he is immune from the upheaval in the Republican Party. Before his election, Governor Charlie Baker went on record opposing the Common Core national standards. But since he took office, Massachusetts parents have heard barely a word from him about discarding Common Core and restoring the superior Massachusetts standards that the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) jettisoned to obtain a $250 million federal bribe (i.

As a sitting governor in a blue state, Charlie Baker must think he is immune from the upheaval in the Republican Party. Before his election, Governor Charlie Baker went on record opposing the Common Core national standards. But since he took office, Massachusetts parents have heard barely a word from him about discarding Common Core and restoring the superior Massachusetts standards that the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) jettisoned to obtain a $250 million federal bribe (i.…