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college or career training programs. Those two facts alone are enough to tell us these standards are

likely to be more relevant, and more challenging, than existing standards.

The idea that implementation of the CCS will mean elected officials will have no say in what or

how K-12 students are taught is simply untrue. Need we remind Dr. Chappell that the elected State

Board of Education voted to adopt the Kansas CCS, or that local school boards will continue to makedecisions about curriculum, as they have done whenever new standards have been adopted?

We respect the right to disagree, but we cannot condone the spreading of half-truths and

misrepresentations. Were hopeful the good people of Kansas will look to the facts and not be distracted

by false assertions.