Gov. BIll Haslam, left, leads a discussion at Tennessee’s Education Summit on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, in NashvilleNASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam is raising questions about plans by two state Senate Republicans to repeal Tennessee’s controversial Common Core education standards and create a new panel to make recommendations on their replacement.
The bill from Haslam’s fellow Republicans, Senate Education Committee Chairman Dolores Gresham and Government Operations Committee Chairman Mike Bell, comes in the midst of the governor’s own recently announced public review of Common Core standards for math and English.
The legislation poses yet another challenge to Haslam by his own party on the standards.
“It [Gresham/Bell bill] talks a little bit about setting up another review board for standards, which I’m curious how that works in terms of the State Board of Education,” Haslam told reporters on Monday. “Do we have two boards that do that?”
The State Board of Education, whose members are appointed by the government, currently sets policy for K-12 public education.