Fred Cox Deseret News KSL Candidate Comparison

The Deseret News has an interesting Candidate Comparison based on our response to their questions for the New State House District 30

http://voterguide.deseretnews.com/candidate-detail.do?id=10716278

Utah's Common Core

I don't mind having access to a national grassroots standard, as long as we have the flexibility to amend/modify/add/delete anything to make it better.

Math teachers I have talked to believe the standard will do 2 things, help ACT scores rise and decrease the number of students taking remedial math when they reach college.

Many do not like the no text books and wants other options.

There are those that would have taken 8th grade Algebra that would take Calculus their senior year that should not have to waste their 8th grade and could move faster and those that are not understanding the concepts, and may not understand, that have traditionally been taught by rote.

The standard, a is a one size fits all approach, which will only work with the middle students.

The race to the top funding competition provided little time for the states to adopt common core, so almost no legislatures were involved in the adoption nationally. With the National Governors Association behind it, I am not surprised it was signed in the approx. 2 months the states were given initially. Federal Funds are the only enforcement tool, and we haven't got any of them over this yet.

I believe it was Governor Huntsman in 2009 who signed up for this direction along with the state school board who was acting constitutionally: "The general control and supervision of the public education system shall be vested in a State Board of Education. ", were within their duties. Saying the Feds are outside their constitutional powers is one thing, which I agree with, but saying the state school board was outside theirs is an argument that would be lost.

The only thing the legislature has done so far is raise concerns and provide some barrier to federal control, calling it Utah's Common Core in the Statewide Adaptive Testing request for proposal. The feds have lowered the student privacy laws and so we have tied Utah's student privacy laws to any Statewide Adaptive Testing system funding. See 2012 HB 15 and 2012 SB 97.

2012 SCR 13 passed the senate, but ran out of time in the House. I am not sure it would have passed and the house killed a move to bump it to the top of a short list at the end.

The schools have spent the last 2 summers gearing up for this, and changing their books, etc. If the legislature is going to now get further involved, it should be very limited.

Representative Fred Cox running for the Utah House District 30

Courtesy of Comcast. More of these videos for other candidates are available at Comcast On Demand, Utah. Vote Utah 2012. This video is a little rough, as they didn't allow edits or redos after we started recording and I had not used a teleprompter before.

http://youtu.be/ZsmlM1Cag8w

New Salt Lake County Precinct maps

The Salt Lake County Clerk has released new 2012 Election State House District, State Senate District, Congressional and Precinct maps.

See:
New State House District 30, includes Precincts WVC 05, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 52, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
http://clerk.slco.org/elections/maps/reps/rep_30.pdf

Each of these have 3 letters and 3 numbers such as WVC005. I have shortened them to make it simple here.

Each of these Precinct Maps are at:
https://secure.slco.org/clerk/elections/precMaps.cfm

State Senate: (District 1 has an election this year)

Senate District 5, Precincts WVC 05, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
http://clerk.slco.org/elections/maps/senate/senate_05.pdf

Senate District 1, Precincts WVC 10, 12, 13, 14, 17
http://clerk.slco.org/elections/maps/senate/senate_01.pdf

Senate District 12, Precincts WVC 52, 53
http://clerk.slco.org/elections/maps/senate/senate_12.pdf

For your information, those Precincts in the

2nd Congressional District are:
WVC 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 52, 53
http://clerk.slco.org/elections/maps/candidateMaps/congress_2.pdf


4th Congressional District are:
WVC 05, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
http://clerk.slco.org/elections/maps/candidateMaps/congress_4.pdf

The New House District 30, GOP Neighborhood Caucus Elections, 7:00pm March 15, 2012, starts at 7pm, arrive as close to 6:15pm as you can.

Whittier Elementary School
3585 S 6000 W
WVC, UT 84128
(Precincts at this location: WVC005, WVC010, WVC012, WVC013, WVC014, WVC017, WVC018, WVC019, WVC024, WVC025, WVC026, WVC027)

Carl Sandburg Elementary
3900 S 5325 W
WVC, UT 84120
(Precincts at this location: WVC052, WVC053, WVC057, WVC058, WVC059, WVC060, WVC061, WVC062, WVC063)

If you live north of 4100 S, you are at Whittier. If you live south of 4100 S, you are at Carl Sandburg.

http://www.slcogop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rep_30.pdf

The March 13 Democrat Caucus is at Hunter High School
These meetings start at 7pm, but I would get there as close to 6:15pm as you can.

More information can be found at my blog or on several social media sites which can be reached from:
http://www.fredcox4utah.com/

The best website to track the session is at:

http://www.le.utah.gov

Official Government and Constituent Email:
fredcox@le.utah.gov

Campaign Related Email, including volunteering, signs, donations, etc:
fred@fredcox4utah.com

(No donations during the Session)

Fred C. Cox, Representing State House District 32 and running to represent the new District 30

PS, the above information is to help. Please check the official maps.