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CCSS Follow Up System: More than Money Will Follow Your Students | commoncorediva

CCSS Follow Up System: More than Money Will Follow Your Students | commoncorediva:

CCSS Follow Up System: More than Money Will Follow Your Students



While it's yet to be determined if money follows your students, CCSS certainly is already following your students.


In fighting the War Against the Core, we’ve all met those warriors who are great at sending tips to areas of the “Common Core” overreach into our lives. From an educational standpoint, we’ve seen the CCSS Machine usurp our schools; from a privacy standpoint, we seen the CCSS Machine ruin it. The damage is far from new NOR is it over.
Here in NC, the “Common Follow Up System” has been in place since 1992! How is this part of the agenda that comes with “Common Core”? Keep reading, my followers and anti CCSS Warriors..
What is a “CFS”?
The purpose of a “Common Follow Up System” is: “The purpose of the Common Follow-up System (CFS) is to provide information on the educational and employment outcomes of participants in publicly supported educational, employment and training programsfor use in planning, policy-making, program evaluation, resource allocation and career planning.”
Do you see the CCSS/CTE footprints? I do. If you don’t, look at the emphasized words. Publicly supported education means schools or programs connected to them. That’s the CCSS portion. The employment and training is the Career Technical Education (CTE). The two are one in the same in that the CTE portion of the Common Core begins well before high school graduation.


Let’s dig deeper, shall we? The CFS (Common Follow Up System) was designed to be a unified effort to collect massive amounts of data. The data was supposedly to help all the agencies involved to plan better as well as to have better CCSS Follow Up System: More than Money Will Follow Your Students | commoncorediva: