As elected representatives from across the state of North Dakota assemble for the 65th Legislative Assembly, I have a message for many of them. When it comes to the Common Core State Standards, it appears you have been duped. “By whom?,” you say. By our very own Superintendent of Public Instruction, Kirsten Baesler. It seems…

Leah Peterson of Fargo , center, holds a pile of more than 1,400 signed petitions protesting implementation of Common Core that were presented to the House education committee on Feb. 2, 2015. Peterson, of Fargo, is sitting in the packed Brynhild Haugland Room of the state capitol during a hearing on HB 1461, a bill that would do away with North Dakota involvement with Common Core standards. TOM STROMME / Bismarck Tribune