New Government Education Standards Unfunded Costs Too High?

According to the latest news, the costs of the new federal government educational programs and their implementations are just too high for states and localities to bear?  That's the latest news coming out of FOX news.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/05/number-states-backing-out-common-core-testing-maryland-schools-low-on-funding/?intcmp=latestnews

Now the bad part about all of this is that according to everything we are always told, education is supposed to be free.  How does that work now?

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