On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina spoke out against Common Core, saying it not only limits parental choice but also limits a child's chances in receiving the best education possible.

"Common Core has become -- however it was intended originally -- Common Core has become a nationally driven set of bureaucratic standards that teach teachers how to teach, that teach children how to learn, and what we need is to provide more parental choice so that our kids -- anywhere they live -- have a real chance, and Common Core doesn't help us do that," Fiorina said.

Wallace took issue with her accusing Washington of imposing "bureaucratic standards" down the pipeline when, as he pointed out, Common Core standards don't come from the Department of Education but from state governors and local school officials. "In fact," Wallace said, "the federal government is barred by law from setting curriculum."

Fiorina replied:

Yes, I understand that's how it started. But the thing is, when a Washington bureaucracy gets involved in any program, it becomes heavy-handed and standardized. It's how Washington bureaucracies work. And so, the reason you have so many parents and teachers pushing back against Common Core is because they believe, rightly so, that they are losing their choices and their flexibility.

Fiorina added that national textbook companies are banding together with national testing companies to "form and drive these standards." "It's just how bureaucracies work," she, again, told Wallace.

In a video clip played during the segment, Fiorina was heard downplaying the need for the United States to compete with China in education, a comment Wallace reminded has caused her to receive some blowback. Here is what the former Hewlett-Packard CEO said in the video:

I’ve been doing business in China for decades and I will tell you that, yes, the Chinese can take a test. And what they can't do is innovate. They're not terribly imaginative, they’re not entrepreneurial, they don’t innovate. That's why they're stealing our intellectual property.

Their conversation continued:

WALLACE: But the fact is, China is on track to lead the world in science and technology research by 2019, and more important, the U.S. now ranks 30th in math literacy in the world and 20th in reading literacy.

Question, aren't we falling behind not just China but the rest of the world when it comes to education?

FIORINA: Well, of course, our education system is a big problem. The point I was trying to make about the Chinese is the system they've put in place standardizes behavior. It's part of the repression of that regime.

It's one of the reasons why China, for example, has a strategy of continuing to steal our intellectual property. It's one of the reasons why they have not adhered to the requirements of WTO.

Rather than looking to perceived successes in other countries, Fiorina instead outlined what good education in America should look like: "[A] great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents, so that parents can school their children however they think their children will be best served -- whether that's at home or with vouchers or charters or parochial schools."

"And Common Core, unfortunately, limits parents' choices," she said. "It limits the creativity a teacher can apply in the classroom. So, it will over time limit our children's chances."