Common Core to Cost Millions

Now that NH BoE, not our elected representatives in the NH legislature, has adopted Common Core , it will cost the taxpayers millions to purchase new curriculum materials.

Read the Telegraph’s article wherein Superintendent Conrad claims it will cost Nashua taxpayers millions of dollars to fund this Common Core national curriculum.

“Superintendent Mark Conrad said the textbook change is the first of many that will be needed in the next few years as the district works to update its curriculum materials in math and reading to align with the Common Core standards, which have been adopted by 45 states and outline a consistent framework to prepare students for college and the workforce.

Those changes will likely cost millions of dollars over the next few years, including costs to integrate technology into the curriculum.”

Our elected officials in the legislature did not adopt a national curriculum. Unelected members of the NH Board of Education did, imposing these costs, downshifting unfunded mandates, upon our cities and towns.