North Carolina leaders battle to retain Common Core for a change in the curriculum.

After multiple meetings, the Wake County school board committee keeps fighting to preserve the standards of common core, but it is not just Wake County. Many counties across the nation have applied Common Core to their math and English classes and have been fighting to keep it in place.

“To change our curriculum again after three years just would be turmoil that we don’t need for our employees, for our children and for our state,” said board member Bill Fletcher to News & Observer.

Common Core sets academic standards in mathematics and English. These standards are said to assure all students, who are actively participating in Common Core, the knowledge they need to be successful in their future according to Fletcher. Not everybody is on the same page with the idea of keeping Common Core.

“The standards need to be in place for seven years to assess how well they are being implemented,” said Fletcher.

People across the nation have responded to the new form of schooling by calling Common Core a “federal overreach.” School board members have commented on the subject by saying some tweaking could occur in the near future but eliminating Common Core altogether is not in the cards.

The decision to either keep the latest form of learning or to remove it is slowly becoming a political issue, bringing forth opinionated standpoints. Some people oppose the idea of Common Core strongly; others believe that it has closed up gaps in students education. The vote to keep Common Core is set for the middle of May.

“I think Common Core is beneficial for the middle and high school levels, but I think it might be too much for some elementary school students,” said Andrew Ellington, English teacher