'Badass Teachers' Storm Washington in Protest Against Common Core

A group of teachers headed to Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest the Common Core State Standards engulfing the nation in a sea of controversy.

The Badass Teachers Association, which consists of over 100,000 teachers, rallied in the nation's capital to make their voices heard over the last 12 years of federal education, which they see as a significant problem as educators in the U.S.

In the group's manifesto, the BATs demand the end of high-stakes testing as well as teaching to a set of "narrow, top-down-based" standards.

The BATs also called for the resignation of U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan as well as severing ties with Teach for America.