Indiana Becomes First State to Formally Abandon Common Coreselfnews Post Now as more parents and localities begin to take a deeper look at this curriculum, theyre finding a multitude of inadequacies which appear to be agenda-driven and standard-lowering. Until today resistance to Common Core has been small and relatively silent, but Indiana just became the first state to formally discard Common Core standards when their State Board of Education voted 10-1 to endorse a replacement standard. The Associated Press reports: One of the first states to adopt Common Core standards became the first state to formally abandon the national benchmarks, as Indianas State Board of Education voted overwhelmingly Monday for a replacement that will guide student learning for years. The board voted 10-1 to endorse the new benchmarks to guide what students in kindergarten through 12th grade should learn in math and English, which were created by a panel of faculty from Indiana universities and representatives from science and technology industries. The vote came ahead of the states July deadline and could end months of heated debate. Indiana adopted Common Core in 2010 along with 44 other states. But states rights advocates and tea party members later vocally opposed the Common Core standards, saying they were created without adequate local input. The new benchmarks, however, are also under scrutiny as the activist group Hoosiers Against Common Corewarned that the replacement is just a rebranded version of Common Core. Indeed, the South Bend Superintendent of Schools said the new standards are very, very, much aligned with Common Core: 