State Board of Education member Barbara Hampton will host a public hearing on Common Core Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Dunwoody High School.
The hearing will be the second hosted by state board members, who have been ordered by Gov. Nathan Deal to review the national set of academic standards known as Common Core.
Some tea party activists and other conservatives view the standards as a federal intrusion into state control of public education. Supporters say the standards, which Georgia began using in 2012, improve education by increasing the rigor of academic material and harmonizing when students across the country are introduced to that material.
The state review of the standards will include pubic feedback sessions in each of the state’s congressional districts.
Speakers will have up to three minutes to provide their views on the standards. Those views will be recorded and sent to the University of Georgia for compilation.
The state board is expected to suggest whatever changes it plans to make in the standards by the end of the year.
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