&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f895e07-de27-45bc-b3d9-096cdcb24b0c"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">State legislatures in the previous months have been passing bills to alter and add to their public school systems’ curriculums.</span></font></span></span>

Heard of Common Core, but not sure what it is? Curious about how states receive federal funding for education? Below, we break down this hot-button issue, and provide the 2016 presidential candidates’ stances towards Common Core......

<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8012809753418px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19.2019214630127px;">Ted McConnell, the Director for the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools and about to be one of Vote Smart's new board members sent me the following information about a critically important report issued yesterday.</span>