- Colorado already has a history with WestEd and Common Core State Standards. - Click here
- WestEd is Funded by Gates...outcome of any analysis they do is predetermined and bought by Gates. $2,987,668.00 - Click here
- WestEd Director Rabinowtiz was on Validation committee for the CC standards and signed off on them. Stanley Rabinowitz is Director of Standards and Assessment Services. Click here
- WestEd serves as the Project Management Partner for the multi-state Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) and helped write the questions. — the first collaboration of its kind building a common assessment system among a majority of states. -Click here
- WestEd Stanley Rabinowitz wrote a white paper on ed reform and next generation assessments back in 2010. - Click here
- And in this article we find out that WestEd conducted Massechusettes "independent" analysis between their standards and the CCSS. ....just as they did for Colorado in 2010. - Click here
- WestEd On national standards, the Gates Foundation gets what it pays for - Click here
- It should be noted that Commissioner Hammond as well as many others in CDE and the Governor's office also have ties to Gates money, as you can see by these IRS tax returns.