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As a former long-time teacher (who no longer teaches, because the current manifestation of public education was and is a soul crushing nightmare struggle), I have a cynical view about CC. Personally, I doubt it will change anything. Our teachers will continue to struggle to teach because of the 3-way conflict between a parent's desire to feel good about their kid, and administrators' drive to keep parents from complaining, and a good teacher's efforts to maintain high standards.
As any teacher knows, the state imposes a "fundamental change" every 5-10 years with changing standards, new methodologies, classroom management, etc.. As educators, we must struggle to complete our tasks while standing on a constantly shifting base as if education (something humans have been doing for a couple of hundred thousand years) is something we've been doing wrong up until the 1960s.
The criticisms of Common Core (issues of local control, propaganda, teaching to the test, companies making a profit, my child is unhappy, it's too hard, it's too easy, or whatever) are banal repetitions of the last umpteen years.
The only thing that I see that might, just might, change the current pathetic excuse we have for public education is the national curriculum.
The rest of it is just the same old same old.