SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the Common Core education standards provoked political backlash and testing boycotts around the country this year, the state that educates more public school children than ...

All politics is local. So Republican politicians with national ambitions better pay attention to what grassroots parents are saying and doing about the federal education racket known as Common Core.

The backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college-driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals. The Diocese of Albany ...