Although most senators, representatives, and school officials support the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), they have not received or studied the history of how the CCSS came to be presented. They also do not understand that local control is being taken away from them, resulting in the destruction of excellent schools, students, and future generations. Two private trade organizations based in Washington, D.C., drafted the CCSS at the request of Achieve, a company created by Bill and Melinda Gates. Therefore, the CCSS did not originate at the state level but from a concerned organization associated with education. Most Americans do not want their local school district to share their children's personal, identifiable information with the federal government or any other group or agency, but the CCSS allows information to be shared without parental consent. Sold as a set of rigorous standards, forty-five states, including Ohio, adopted the Common Core. The absence of a cost analysis does not allow the taxpayer to know the costs. CCSS did not originate in Columbus, shares students' private information without parental consent, lacks rigor in internationally observed benchmarks, and comes at a high unaccounted cost to the taxpayer. In 2011, Ohio legislatures amended FERPA. FERPA stands for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the part of the Ohio Revised Code that protects a student's personally identifiable information from being shared with organizations or businesses without a parent's written consent. As the Common Core Standards advanced, FERPA had to be amended to make the Common Core legal in Ohio, thus sharing students' personal information with groups, organizations, or companies that claim to use the data... half the paper. .. .... Secondary Schools.” Government of Education. U.S. Department of Education, Feb. 2, 2012. Web. Jan. 5, 2013. “Myths vs. Facts.” The truth in American education. The Truth in American Education, March 17, 2013. Web. December 18, 2013. "Ohio, PARCC and the Feds..." Education Freedom Ohio. Wordpress Institute, 25 June 2013. Web. 13 January 2014. Pullman, Gioia. “Feds Spend Millions Promoting Common Core.” Heartlander. The Heartlander Institute, January 27, 2014. Web. January 29, 2014. Ravitch, Diane. “Because I oppose common core standards.” Washington Post. February 26, 2013. SIRS Problem Researcher. Network. December 17, 2013.Strauss, Valerie. “New Common Core Test: Is It Worth the Price?” The Washington Post. The Washington Post Company, July 24, 2014. Web. January 29, 2014.Thompson, Andy. “Why I proposed HB 237 to repeal the Common Core in Ohio.” Ohio Conservative Review. OCR, November 21, 2014. Web. February 2. 2014.