Missouri Lawmaker Fights Common Core ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ With Foil Hats | Talking Points Memo

If you can’t persuade lawmakers with logic, use humor — and aluminum foil hats.

That’s one Missouri state representative’s reasoning for tying an appropriation for “tin foil hats” into an amendment that removed language barring the state from accepting federal money to implement Common Core standards in public schools, the Columbia Tribune reported Wednesday.


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