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[S]ince he has a Republican majority in the House and Senate, it can be expected that education reform is a top priority for his administration.

But if the Republican-controlled State House votes to get rid of the Common Core standards, what replaces it might not look that different from what's already in place.

"There is no place in our state more than our classrooms where Washington has reached in with their regulation, with their bureaucracy," Sununu said in a September debate.

It's important to note that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which were implemented in 2010 for math and English, are not a national curriculum and were created at the state level by governors and school administrators. President-elect Donald Trump has also called for a repeal of Common Core, but the Republican-controlled Congress recently passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, which explicitly forbids federal involvement in state standards.

Since 2010, states were allowed to adopt and adapt the standards to fit their own local needs. Also, states and school districts are not required to adopt Common Core, and some have even created their own standards. Currently, 42 states have implemented Common Core standards.

Indiana, South Carolina and Oklahoma all adopted Common Core, but then later repealed the standards in response to political pressure. What ended up happening is that Indiana and South Carolina attempted to replace Common Core with their own standards, but eventually these states essentially reverted back to Common Core.

For example, South Carolina's math standards became 92 percent in alignment with Common Core standards.

Oklahoma wrote completely new standards, with very few similarities to Common Core. But critics on both sides of the political aisle and education experts seem to agree that the standards are a disaster.

Although New Hampshire could pull out of Common Core standards, which they have almost done twice during Gov. Maggie Hassan's terms, what replaces it might end up looking very similar to the standards that they just scrapped.

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