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 # GE Foundation Head Stops In Erie, Pitches Common Core State Standards

 


 

 Oct 12, 2012 4:00 PM ET

  Campaign:  ![](https://3blaws.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/carousel_2x/s3/images/BobCorcoran.jpg "Bob Corcoran, President and CEO of the GE Foundation, talks with Wayne Middle School kindergartner Saige Troup, 5, during a tour of the school on Oct. 10. JACK HANRAHAN//ERIE TIMES-NEWS") Bob Corcoran, President and CEO of the GE Foundation, talks with Wayne Middle School kindergartner Saige Troup, 5, during a tour of the school on Oct. 10. JACK HANRAHAN//ERIE TIMES-NEWS 

 

[GE Foundation head stops in Erie, talks Common Core](http://www.goerie.com/article/20121011/NEWS02/310119923/GE-Foundation-head-stops-in-Erie-talks-Common-Core)

The GE Foundation has spent more than $27 million on Erie's schools since 2007.  
  
Foundation President Bob Corcoran made a stop in town Wednesday to check on the return on that investment and make a pitch for the national Common Core State Standards.  
  
At a gathering of educators and business leaders at the Bayfront Sheraton on Wednesday morning and later that day at a meeting with the Erie Times-News Editorial Board, Corcoran said the new standards will make American schools more competitive internationally.  
  
"This is a set of standards that are world class," Corcoran said.  
  
The Erie School District has been a part of the foundation's Developing Futures in Education program for more than five years, starting in 2007 with an investment of $15 million for math and science education.

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