EDUCATION BILLS SOLIDIFY FEDERAL CONTROL OF SCHOOLS & CHILDREN
BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/21293-education-bills-solidify-federal-control-of-schools-children; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In brazen defiance of the enumerated powers listed in the U.S. Constitution that all lawmakers swore an oath to uphold, both houses of Congress passed massive “education” bills packed with attacks on real education, local control of schools, student and family privacy, and the rights of parents. Despite false campaign promises by Republicans to rein in the Obama administration, the legislation passed by the GOP majority purports to reauthorize a dizzying array of unconstitutional federal “education” schemes — including draconian tools Obama has lawlessly used to nationalize education through thehugely unpopular Common Core standards. The White House has already indicated that it supports the legislation and will sign it, but critics are up in arms.
Perhaps the most important element of the legislation is that it reauthorizes the anti-constitutional Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 — the primary mechanism used by Washington, D.C., to usurp control over education from parents and communities. In essence, the measure opened the floodgates of federal funding for government schools, and with those funds, which come with “strings” attached, D.C. politicians and bureaucrats formally launched their plan to federalize public schools. The ESEA scheme was amended and made even more draconian by the almost universally reviled “No Child Left Behind” Act, implemented by a coalition including Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush. That program was crucial in forcing states to impose a radical testing regime that was ultimately used to federalize what is taught in schools.
Legal authorization for No Child Left Behind actually ended in 2008, yet Congress continues to appropriate funds for it. Just as importantly, the Obama administration continues to exploit the non-existent authority to usurp even more control over schools and the minds of children — offering “waivers” from the “mandates,” along with bribes, to state governments that agree to impose the Obama-backed Common Core regime.
In Ronald Reagan’s day, abolishing the federal role in education was the Republican position. By contrast, the GOP majority in Congress today seems determined to expand that giant D.C. boot print, as is shown clearly by the “education” bills, which further empower Obama. The latest bills even purport to legitimize the White House’s previous usurpations of power in violation of the law.
Ironically, much of the present Republican establishment’s rhetoric focused on pretending that the legislation would “give” states authorities and “flexibility” on education — powers the states already had and still have under the U.S. Constitution and the 10th Amendment, and powers that are not the federal government’s to “give” in the first place. “The needs of a student in eastern Kentucky aren’t likely to be the same as those of students in south Florida or downtown Manhattan,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said on the Senate floor. “This bill would give states the flexibility to develop systems that work for the needs of their students, rather than the one-size-fits-all mandate of Washington.”
Of course, Washington has no authority to “mandate” anything on education, because the states never delegated any power to Washington over education in the U.S. Constitution. That means the 10th Amendment specifically prohibits any federal involvement in education at all, and especially purported “mandates.” To anti-constitutional politicians in Washington, though, the Constitution they all swore to uphold and defend apparently means nothing — assuming, of course, that they have even read it.
Regardless, the bills that advanced in Congress would expand controls and federal funding for “charter” schools, unleash intrusive bureaucracies seeking insight into your child’s mind via psychological and psychiatric testing, push to get even younger children in government hands, and much more.
On July 16, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed S. 1177, more commonly referred to as the “Every Child Achieves Act” (ECAA). Just 17 senators, mostly conservative- or libertarian-leaning Republicans, voted against the bill. Before that, on July 9, the U.S. House narrowly approved the “Student Success Act,” described by American Principles Project Education Executive Director Emmett McGroarty as “one of the most far-reaching pieces of domestic legislation.” Now, the massive, radical bills go to conference committee to iron out the differences between the two versions so a final package can be sent to Obama to be signed into law.
The White House is pleased and plans to sign it, despite Congress not giving the administration the full range of powers it was demanding. “S. 1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, is an important step forward in the process of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB),” the White House said in a statement. “The Administration appreciates the bipartisan effort that produced this legislation.” The White House also said it “applauds the bipartisan commitment in S. 1177 to expand opportunities for America's children to attend high-quality preschool.”
Critics, though, are raging against the legislation. Liberty-minded Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.), for example, said in a statement that he was honored to stand up for parental rights by voting against it. “The bill increases federal control of education,” he explained, noting that the bill reauthorizes the lapsed No Child Left Behind scheming, with some modifications, for the first time in years, and that Congress should instead simply stop funding it all. He pointed out that the key selling points being touted by Republicans to advance the bill — that it “prohibits” using funds to coerce states on Common Core and that it allows parents to “opt out” of federal testing mandates — would both be accomplished by voting no on the bill. The Senate version does not include the “opt out” provision, which was voted down.
In the Senate, liberty-minded Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) also blasted the federal control over education purportedly authorized in the bill. “Not only did the Senate miss an opportunity to put states back in control of education policy, but the Every Child Achieves Act also expands the Department of Education’s role in early education policies,” he said in a statement. “Some have argued that this bill creates new protections for states who want to resist Washington dictates on curriculum or testing. But current law already includes similar protections and the Obama administration has already blatantly ignored those.… Utah parents have been asking for a new direction on education, but unfortunately this bill only gives them more of the same.”
In one of the broadest widely circulated criticisms of key elements of the legislation, education activist Christel Swasey outlined six specific “evil” elements of the bill — any single one of which should have been enough to quash the bill, at least if lawmakers were serious about their oath of office, the Constitution, or the wishes of their constituents. Among the chief complaints, which she lists along with the relevant sections of the legislation, are: “The bill aims to kill parental rights in the parental opt-out movement”; “The bill’s master-servant relationship between Fed Ed and State Ed is unconstitutional”; “The bill will suppress student expression of religious and political values”; “The bill sees government, not families, at the center of the universe — for younger and younger people, for more and more of the time”; “The bill promotes federal definitions of mental health and promotes collection of mental health data”; and “Toddler Snatching.”
“In my own mind I have given all its versions this name: Nasty Orwellian Progressive Education (NOPE) — a convenient, more honest, and recyclable title,” Swasey wrote in the Education Without Representation blog in her analysis of the 800-page Senate version of the legislation. “The hide and seek that readers must wield with the real purposes and powers of this bill is ridiculous. Clearly, the authors of S.1177 aim to obscure its true purposes, which I now see only serve the Obama-UN agenda for education. The media’s calling S.1177 ‘a bipartisan compromise’ but that’s far from true. It’s all part of the Common Core bipartisan profiteering scheme that aligns federal tests and standards, but elbows out parents and voters.… The power struggle is no longer between the Republicans and the Democrats. Bipartisan means almost nothing. The fight is between voting families — We the People, whether Democratic, Republican or other — versus the clique of profiteering businessmen and politicians.”
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America author Charlotte Iserbyt, also a former senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Education, sounded the alarm on the charter-school component of the legislation. Blasting as the “huge elephant in the Senate and House chambers” the agenda behind tax-funded school-choice and charter-schools, which do not have elected boards yet use public funds, Iserbyt said the real goal was to prepare Americans for global tyranny. “HR 5 and S. 117 are not education bills. They are communist limited learning for lifelong labor bills,” she said, citing a wide array of publications on the issue going back generations. “We need people to start using proper adjectives, and then we will start winning,” she told The New American in a phone interview. “This is communism.” Indeed, more than a few foreign governments have used exactly the same strategy — tax funding for supposedly non-government schools — to usurp full control of education and quash all available alternatives. Even homeschoolers will be impacted, Iserbyt said.
By stuffing the radical bill with handouts and benefits for special-interest groups with powerful lobbyists — and especially tax-funded “charter” schools and crony-capitalist testing mega-companies — proponents of the agenda to federalize schools and further dumb down Americans have made great progress. The agenda is clear: D.C. wants to decide what your children learn and how they learn it, at younger and younger ages, and it wants to know every detail about your child’s views, attitudes, psychological profile, and beliefs so “interventions” can change them. The agenda to shower crony special interests with public funds is transparent, too, and should be firmly resisted — especially considering that the federal government is already drowning the American people in impossible-to-pay debt.
Republicans ran on a platform of reining in the White House, and yet, these education bills hand the administration virtually everything it wants — and then some — all in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Instead of passing a “compromise” bill once the House and Senate versions are put together, members of Congress should obey their oath of office and get the federal government completely out of education. That can happen by stopping all funding for federal education bureaucracies and programs — no bill is even needed, so Obama cannot veto it. At the state level, meanwhile, activists concerned with proper education should ensure that state and local officials refuse federal bribes and the mandates attached to them. They should also work to abolish state education agencies, as well. Not only do those federally funded bureaucracies serve as conduits for federal mandates to be imposed on local schools, they also usurp communities’ rights to self-government and to provide real education without external meddling. The federal government and its allies have done enough to destroy education. It is time for real change — and real education.
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Common Core: People vs. Big Government, Big Business, and Billionaires
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CHARLOTTE ISERBYT'S STATEMENT
ON S1177 PASSAGE
SEE: http://abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com/2015/07/charlotte-iserbyts-statement-on-s1177.html; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
#NoWayESEA
CHARLOTTE ISERBYT'S WARNING ON S1177 PASSAGE 7-18-15
Charlotte Iserbyt's Warning On S1177 Passage
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Iserbyt_071715.mp3
All information regarding this bill is at abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com (the last two posts) and at Rense.com, scroll to "America's Tragedy" and "Death of Local Control".
S1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, received 81 yes votes, 17 no votes, and 2 not voting.
The following Senators voted NO: Blunt, R/ MO; Booker, D/ NJ; Crapo, R/ID; Cruz, R/TX; Daines, R/MT; Flake, R/AZ; Lee, R/UT; Moran, R/KS; Murphy, D/CT; Paul, R/KY; Riseh, R/ID; Rubio, R/FL; Sasse, R/NE; Scott, R/SC; Shelby, R/AL; Vitter, R/LA; Warren, D/MA; NOT voting were Graham, R/SC, Nelson, D/FL.
We should thank those voting NO since S1177 is NOT an education bill.
We should also thank the thousands of grassroots Americans who did everything possible to get a NO vote on both Rep. Kline's HR5 and Sen. Alexander's S1177 legislation. We almost killed HR 5; lost by 5 votes.
I personally, for the grassroots, want to thank Jeff Rense for allowing the grassroots NO WAY ESEA message to get out.Without Jeff, we would never have come so close to defeating HR 5.
HR 5 and S1177 ARE NOT EDUCATION BILLS. THEY ARE COMMUNIST LIMITED LEARNING FOR LIFELONG LABOR BILLS! which originated in Carnegie Corp. books (1934), in the United Nations, UNESCO and the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France. They are part of UN Agenda 21.
The global workforce training agenda was resurrected during the Reagan and Bush Administrations, later supported by Clinton and Bush,Jr. and now Obama. Workforce training is a major part of the world government/UNAgenda 21 plan.
As C.S. Lewis said: When training beats education civilization dies.
The goal is to use the world's children to spin off profits for the global elite.
This international workforce training agenda is for ALL children on this planet.
Homeschooled children are targetted in original New American School Development Corp documents related to charter schools.
This agenda is supported by the national and international chambers of commerce, the CFR, the multinational corporations, both political parties at the top, the leadership of teachers unions (not teachers) and neoconservative organizations. The Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska, George . bishop, Chairman, Committee on Catholic education, an address to House of Representatives, and in a letter dated 2/23/15, recommended passage of Republican Rep. Kline's HR 5, the Student Success Act. Other Protestant religious groups, etc. have expressed support for these bills.
The National Alliance of Business in the nineties called for Kindergarten-Age 80 workforce training and community service.
S1177 includes, aside from workforce training, a heavy emphasis on Communist Core Marxist curriculum and testing. THE TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC CURRICULUM HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 10% OF WHAT IT ORIGINALLY WAS. I BELIEVE THE COMMON CORE IS THE LATE UN UNDERSECRETARY ROBERT MULLER'S WORLD CORE (NEW AGE) CURRICULUM.
S1177 includes provision of all community services (lifelong), especially mental health services (brainwashing for correct political values) birth through death, and "Soviet-style" early childhood education, under the unelected school superintendent. These hub of community schools are going in all over the country. They are Hillary Clinton's "It Takes A village to Raise a Child" philosophy. Google Georgia Visions.
S1177 includes extensive privacy-invading data collection related to Communist Core Assessment/mental health remediation. This data will be used for employment and other purposes.
The unelected council form of government (regionalism/communism) is a requirement. The call for tax-funded school choice and charters with unelected boards is found throughout S1177.
Tax-funded school choice and charters without elected school boards are necessary for the workforce plan to be implemented.
Tax-funded school choice and charters are also international and are found all over the world.
The call is also being made, in other prominent circles, (Marc Tucker, Carnegie) to move education funding from the local property tax to the state level to be administered by unelected council, and to get rid of locally elected school boards; recommendation to move decision making to the state level.
STATE EDUCATION CONTROL IS MORE DANGEROUS NOW THAN FEDERAL CONTROL. HR. 5 AND S1177 ARE BOTH ABOUT GIVING POWER TO THE STATE DEPTS OF EDUCATION, UNELECTED WORKFORCE TRAINING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. THIS MAKES MUCH SENSE IF EDUCATION IS NO LONGER EDUCATION, BUT IS WORKFORCE TRAINING WHICH HAS TO BE MANAGED FROM THE STATE LEVEL WITH COOPERATION OF CORPORATIONS AND UNELECTED COUNCILS.
Neoconservative organizations withheld their opposition to HR 5 and S1177 until the very last minute when they felt the bills might be killed. Their coming on board at last minute was simply to take credit for killing them. HR 5 passed by only 5 votes!!!!!!!I understand the same neoconservative organizations that did not oppose HR5 and S1177 until the very last minute are planning a campaign to abolish the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Why now when the federal Dept. of Education, after 35 years, has accomplished its job of funding and controlling all the State Depts of Education? Where were these groups in the early 80s when Reagan was supposed to abolish the Department of Education? Why now when most power has been shifted to the states?
DO NOT RESPOND TO THEIR SLICK PLEAS FOR DONATIONS TO BRING DOWN THE U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION.
Here is a partial list of neocon groups: Heritage, Eagle Forum, Heartland, Freedom Works, American Principles, Women on the Wall, Pioneer, et al. Many of them funded by the Koch Brothers. These are Trotskyite organizations. Trotsky was a communist, not a conservative.
Americans must cease their affiliation with and financial support for the neoconservative organizations that support tax-funded school choice and charter schools with unelected boards and the school-to-work agenda. Concerned Americans must work as individuals, NOT in a group that can be infiltrated. That does not mean you cannot have a very loose knit organization that cannot be identified. Please contact me for help on this score.
Concerned Americans should focus instead on getting legislation passed in their states to abolish their State Departments of Education which have been financially and politically enabled since 1965. They take their orders from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Governors Association, the Education Commission of the States, and many other lesser known associations.
LOCAL CONTROL IS NOT STATE CONTROL. SENATE HEARINGS ON S1177 INCLUDED MULTIPLE COMMENTS FROM SENATORS TO EFFECT POWER MUST BE RETURNED TO THE STATE LEVEL. STATE LEVEL IS NOT LOCAL LEVEL.
KEEP IT THAT WAY. GET LEGISLATION PASSED IN YOUR STATES TO ABOLISH YOUR STATE'S DEPT. OF EDUCATION!!!!
KEEP EDUCATION AT THE LOCAL, LOCAL LEVEL WITH ELECTED BOARDS AND FUNDING THROUGH THE PROPERTY TAX.
AMERICA HAS LOST HER CONSCIENCE
RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT #8
WAKE UP HOMESCHOOLERS: THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN !!!
CHARLOTTE ISERBYT'S WARNING ON S1177 PASSAGE 7-18-15
Charlotte Iserbyt's Warning On S1177 Passage
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Iserbyt_071715.mp3
All information regarding this bill is at abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com (the last two posts) and at Rense.com, scroll to "America's Tragedy" and "Death of Local Control".
S1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, received 81 yes votes, 17 no votes, and 2 not voting.
The following Senators voted NO: Blunt, R/ MO; Booker, D/ NJ; Crapo, R/ID; Cruz, R/TX; Daines, R/MT; Flake, R/AZ; Lee, R/UT; Moran, R/KS; Murphy, D/CT; Paul, R/KY; Riseh, R/ID; Rubio, R/FL; Sasse, R/NE; Scott, R/SC; Shelby, R/AL; Vitter, R/LA; Warren, D/MA; NOT voting were Graham, R/SC, Nelson, D/FL.
We should thank those voting NO since S1177 is NOT an education bill.
We should also thank the thousands of grassroots Americans who did everything possible to get a NO vote on both Rep. Kline's HR5 and Sen. Alexander's S1177 legislation. We almost killed HR 5; lost by 5 votes.
I personally, for the grassroots, want to thank Jeff Rense for allowing the grassroots NO WAY ESEA message to get out.Without Jeff, we would never have come so close to defeating HR 5.
HR 5 and S1177 ARE NOT EDUCATION BILLS. THEY ARE COMMUNIST LIMITED LEARNING FOR LIFELONG LABOR BILLS! which originated in Carnegie Corp. books (1934), in the United Nations, UNESCO and the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France. They are part of UN Agenda 21.
The global workforce training agenda was resurrected during the Reagan and Bush Administrations, later supported by Clinton and Bush,Jr. and now Obama. Workforce training is a major part of the world government/UNAgenda 21 plan.
As C.S. Lewis said: When training beats education civilization dies.
The goal is to use the world's children to spin off profits for the global elite.
This international workforce training agenda is for ALL children on this planet.
Homeschooled children are targetted in original New American School Development Corp documents related to charter schools.
This agenda is supported by the national and international chambers of commerce, the CFR, the multinational corporations, both political parties at the top, the leadership of teachers unions (not teachers) and neoconservative organizations. The Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska, George . bishop, Chairman, Committee on Catholic education, an address to House of Representatives, and in a letter dated 2/23/15, recommended passage of Republican Rep. Kline's HR 5, the Student Success Act. Other Protestant religious groups, etc. have expressed support for these bills.
The National Alliance of Business in the nineties called for Kindergarten-Age 80 workforce training and community service.
S1177 includes, aside from workforce training, a heavy emphasis on Communist Core Marxist curriculum and testing. THE TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC CURRICULUM HAS BEEN REDUCED TO 10% OF WHAT IT ORIGINALLY WAS. I BELIEVE THE COMMON CORE IS THE LATE UN UNDERSECRETARY ROBERT MULLER'S WORLD CORE (NEW AGE) CURRICULUM.
S1177 includes provision of all community services (lifelong), especially mental health services (brainwashing for correct political values) birth through death, and "Soviet-style" early childhood education, under the unelected school superintendent. These hub of community schools are going in all over the country. They are Hillary Clinton's "It Takes A village to Raise a Child" philosophy. Google Georgia Visions.
S1177 includes extensive privacy-invading data collection related to Communist Core Assessment/mental health remediation. This data will be used for employment and other purposes.
The unelected council form of government (regionalism/communism) is a requirement. The call for tax-funded school choice and charters with unelected boards is found throughout S1177.
Tax-funded school choice and charters without elected school boards are necessary for the workforce plan to be implemented.
Tax-funded school choice and charters are also international and are found all over the world.
The call is also being made, in other prominent circles, (Marc Tucker, Carnegie) to move education funding from the local property tax to the state level to be administered by unelected council, and to get rid of locally elected school boards; recommendation to move decision making to the state level.
STATE EDUCATION CONTROL IS MORE DANGEROUS NOW THAN FEDERAL CONTROL. HR. 5 AND S1177 ARE BOTH ABOUT GIVING POWER TO THE STATE DEPTS OF EDUCATION, UNELECTED WORKFORCE TRAINING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. THIS MAKES MUCH SENSE IF EDUCATION IS NO LONGER EDUCATION, BUT IS WORKFORCE TRAINING WHICH HAS TO BE MANAGED FROM THE STATE LEVEL WITH COOPERATION OF CORPORATIONS AND UNELECTED COUNCILS.
Neoconservative organizations withheld their opposition to HR 5 and S1177 until the very last minute when they felt the bills might be killed. Their coming on board at last minute was simply to take credit for killing them. HR 5 passed by only 5 votes!!!!!!!I understand the same neoconservative organizations that did not oppose HR5 and S1177 until the very last minute are planning a campaign to abolish the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Why now when the federal Dept. of Education, after 35 years, has accomplished its job of funding and controlling all the State Depts of Education? Where were these groups in the early 80s when Reagan was supposed to abolish the Department of Education? Why now when most power has been shifted to the states?
DO NOT RESPOND TO THEIR SLICK PLEAS FOR DONATIONS TO BRING DOWN THE U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION.
Here is a partial list of neocon groups: Heritage, Eagle Forum, Heartland, Freedom Works, American Principles, Women on the Wall, Pioneer, et al. Many of them funded by the Koch Brothers. These are Trotskyite organizations. Trotsky was a communist, not a conservative.
Americans must cease their affiliation with and financial support for the neoconservative organizations that support tax-funded school choice and charter schools with unelected boards and the school-to-work agenda. Concerned Americans must work as individuals, NOT in a group that can be infiltrated. That does not mean you cannot have a very loose knit organization that cannot be identified. Please contact me for help on this score.
Concerned Americans should focus instead on getting legislation passed in their states to abolish their State Departments of Education which have been financially and politically enabled since 1965. They take their orders from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Governors Association, the Education Commission of the States, and many other lesser known associations.
LOCAL CONTROL IS NOT STATE CONTROL. SENATE HEARINGS ON S1177 INCLUDED MULTIPLE COMMENTS FROM SENATORS TO EFFECT POWER MUST BE RETURNED TO THE STATE LEVEL. STATE LEVEL IS NOT LOCAL LEVEL.
KEEP IT THAT WAY. GET LEGISLATION PASSED IN YOUR STATES TO ABOLISH YOUR STATE'S DEPT. OF EDUCATION!!!!
KEEP EDUCATION AT THE LOCAL, LOCAL LEVEL WITH ELECTED BOARDS AND FUNDING THROUGH THE PROPERTY TAX.
AMERICA HAS LOST HER CONSCIENCE
RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT #8
WAKE UP HOMESCHOOLERS: THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN !!!
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CHARLOTTE ISERBYT SPEAKS
AT MAINE STATE HOUSE
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
Published on Mar 1, 2015
Videographer: Hal Shurtleff
AUGUSTA, ME-- Charlotte Iserbyt speaks at the Maine State House on the dangers of the Article V Convention of States (con con) and touches upon HR5 legislation, which is the reauthorization of ESEA and continuation of the federal takeover of education. February 17, 2015
H.R. 5 does not enable states to completely opt out of the programs that fall under No Child Left Behind. The bill does not include language that would allow states to opt out of all the programs that fall under NCLB, along with the law’s mandates, and utilize those dollars for any lawful education purpose under state law.
H.R. 5 does not eliminate programs or reduce spending. The bill consolidates more than 65 programs into a Local Academic Flexible Grant, which requires states to submit detailed documentation, follow prescriptive rules, and comply with onerous reporting requirements. This is not a block grant. Furthermore, H.R. 5 does not appreciably reduce spending in relation what was actually spent.
H.R. 5 does not eliminate all the burdensome federal mandates. Although the proposal wisely eliminates counterproductive and prescriptive Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandates, H.R. 5 maintains the current NCLB mandates for states to establish standards in reading and math and to test kids annually between grades 3-8 and once in high school. H.R. 5 orders that academic achievement standards “include the same knowledge, skills, and levels of achievement expected of all public school students in the state.” States must also use “the same academic assessments…to measure the academic achievement of all public school students in the state.” Taken together, these twin mandates direct the state to establish a single uniform assessment, limiting the ability of local schools to determine their own curriculum.
H.R. 5 does not provide states the option of full Title 1 portability. H.R. 5 provides increased portability, but only to public schools and public charter schools. Adequate portability would extend to private schools of choice, if a state chose.
Source: Heritage Action
http://heritageaction.com/key-votes/n...
Lobbying against the ESEA reauthorization:
http://abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com/20...
AUGUSTA, ME-- Charlotte Iserbyt speaks at the Maine State House on the dangers of the Article V Convention of States (con con) and touches upon HR5 legislation, which is the reauthorization of ESEA and continuation of the federal takeover of education. February 17, 2015
H.R. 5 does not enable states to completely opt out of the programs that fall under No Child Left Behind. The bill does not include language that would allow states to opt out of all the programs that fall under NCLB, along with the law’s mandates, and utilize those dollars for any lawful education purpose under state law.
H.R. 5 does not eliminate programs or reduce spending. The bill consolidates more than 65 programs into a Local Academic Flexible Grant, which requires states to submit detailed documentation, follow prescriptive rules, and comply with onerous reporting requirements. This is not a block grant. Furthermore, H.R. 5 does not appreciably reduce spending in relation what was actually spent.
H.R. 5 does not eliminate all the burdensome federal mandates. Although the proposal wisely eliminates counterproductive and prescriptive Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) mandates, H.R. 5 maintains the current NCLB mandates for states to establish standards in reading and math and to test kids annually between grades 3-8 and once in high school. H.R. 5 orders that academic achievement standards “include the same knowledge, skills, and levels of achievement expected of all public school students in the state.” States must also use “the same academic assessments…to measure the academic achievement of all public school students in the state.” Taken together, these twin mandates direct the state to establish a single uniform assessment, limiting the ability of local schools to determine their own curriculum.
H.R. 5 does not provide states the option of full Title 1 portability. H.R. 5 provides increased portability, but only to public schools and public charter schools. Adequate portability would extend to private schools of choice, if a state chose.
Source: Heritage Action
http://heritageaction.com/key-votes/n...
Lobbying against the ESEA reauthorization:
http://abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.com/20...