NASHVILLE - A straight up vote to repeal Tennessee's Common Core education standards failed in a House panel late this afternoon.
House Education Subcommittee members voted 7-2 against the proposal, sponsored by Rep. Rick Womick, R-Rockvale.
The vote came as Gov. Bill Haslam hit schools in East, Middle and West Tennessee to rescue the program. Last week on the House floor, an unlikely combination of hard-right Republicans, Tea Party adherents and Democrats joined together and hijacked a measure dealing with the teaching of history and inserted a two-year delay of Common Core standards and the related PARCC testing.
That bill has returned to the Senate.
Later, Womick's effort to repeal PARCC testing failed on a 6-3 vote in the subcommittee.