As commander and chief of our representative democracy, the concerned citizens of Washington State petition you and your administration to publicly condemn and withdraw support from the Common Core State Standards. Washington State citizens, who pay approximately $8 billion annually in state and local taxes for education, have the constitutional right to exercise 100 percent control over the content standards in our public schools through our duly elected representatives in the Washington Senate and the Washington House.
We do not consent to any agreement that will share student data with the federal government or any other governmental or private entity, any national-testing consortium , and any scheme (such as No Child Left Behind waivers) that requires such participation.