Stateline lawmakers respond to controversial new teaching standards in Illinois – WREX (Rockford)

While agreeing that diversity is something everyone should be behind, Rep. Andrew Chesney says these standards are too far reaching. "We just need to get back to the basics. We need to focus on improving reading, writing and arithmetic first...I would argue that this has political undertones in it's language and I would have less push back if there was that same consideration for conversation view points."