The War of Women on Federal Control of Local Schools Being Waged in Maryland and Missouri.
| Education Reformers and Washington DC take over your local schools and students’ education. You bet it’s a war women and men must fight. |
Two women, one in Maryland and the other in Missouri, are extremely concerned about what’s happening in public education. One is sounding the alarm about Common Core, the other about Race to the Top and her district planning to apply for the RTTT “direct to district” grants, bypassing the state educational agency. Who needs state educational agencies when the Federal government will give your district money and mandates? The Federal DOEd has bypassed state agencies and will direct district education from Washington DC, hardly a constitutional power granted to the federal government.
Cindy Stickline-Rose, a parent, wrote a two part article first appearing at www.TheTentacle.com for parents and taxpayers about Common Core standards. Excerpts are reprinted below with permission from Ms. Stickline-Rose and TheTentacle. From Taking Parents Out of The Equation – Part 1:
today Frederick County Public Schools will be hosting a series of
education nights to familiarize parents with The Common Core Standards.
a parent advocate, I want interested persons to be fully informed
before setting one foot inside their propaganda rooms. I don’t hold the
school system wholly responsible for the spin. Most are ignorant as to
how what we know as “Common Core” grew from an ideology to an idea and
into reality.
let’s start out calling Common Core what it is: a National Curriculum.
It was sold to schools, parents and educators as a way to level the
playing field for career and college readiness. Students in Miami would
be taught the same as students in Seattle.
I continue, let me point out that there are two groups working on
“education reform.” Group One I call the “faux reformer.” They seek to
transform the American education system into the Department of Labor.
Group Two is the one I and my associates are working on. It seeks to
re-establish the parent as the entity with first and final authority
over how and what our children are taught under a “true partnership”
with our educators.
you should not be surprised that less and less control is being had on
the local level because it is the faux reformers who have current
control over education.
is being siphoned away from local jurisdictions back to the states and
will ultimately arrive at the feet of the federal government. The
conduit is Common Core. The end game of this reform is to remove the
parents and the states completely.
local school boards and parents by having federal funding go directly
to the states, through the governors, not to the schools.
all student information into a national data base. This information
would include personal, identifying information such as family
information, social security numbers, academic, medical, mental and
behavioral information as well as information from guidance counselors
in K-12, college and the work place.
think it’s being implemented in our local schools? Take a look at the
Frederick County Board of Education’s position paper to the local
legislators in 2012: “Today’s investments in Frederick County Public
Schools are key to a prosperous economy, strong business growth, and
students’ ability to compete for good jobs in a global, high-tech
economy.”
not seeing a whole lot of language about educating our children today
so they can have bright futures tomorrow based on what they choose for
themselves. It looks like an employment and economy pitch not an
education pitch.
According to the application, the grant,
offered by the U.S. Department of Education, would allow Camdenton
R-III, Marshall and Knob Noster school districts to partner with State
Fair Community College and the University of Central Missouri to build a
facility to house some of Camdenton’s programs; it would provide
personalized learning environments in the form of take-home laptops,
iPads and tablet computers for all middle and high school students in
the three districts; and it would allow the districts to integrate
career planning systems and develop curriculum designed to focus on
“real-world applications” of academic content in order to allow students
pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and their parents to better plan
for the future.Camdenton Schools had expressed interest in program to the U.S.
Department of Education by Aug. 30, according to district officials.
“We had just gotten out from under the No Child Left
Behind (NCLB) program so I was leery about rushing into something else
offered by the federal government,” Martin said, adding that her concern
quickly grew when she realized the board was being asked to approve the
grant so it could be submitted by the deadline of Oct. 30. “It might be
a great deal but I wanted to read our application and research the
program before committing,” she said. “To me, this had undertones of
Nancy Pelosi’s ‘sign-it-now, read-it-later’ handling of the health care
law.”
Others apparently agreed. The board told the
superintendent to continue pursuing the grant but decided to table the
vote until the next meeting. That meeting, which is open to the public,
is scheduled for 7:30 a.m., Oct. 23, and will include a presentation by
Pat Gillman, the director of College and Career Readiness for State
Fair, who took the lead on preparing the grant.
In the meantime, Martin said she set out to learn as much as possible about Race to the Top.
The article details the excellent questions Martin has about RTTT regarding the cost, the federal control, the emphasis on career training for the entire district, teacher evaluations, the sustainability requirements, the lack of teacher input and tax levies necessary when the grants ran out. Martin is doing the job a school board member should be performing; asking questions on debt, future ramifications of decisions to taxpayers and students and the reasons “reforms” are being adopted by the Board. You can find more of Martin‘s concerns here on her blog, The Sunshine Seeker.
The War of Women on Corporate/Governmental Educational Reforms is here. Join women (and concerned men) to fight these reforms that are not “for the kids” but for special interests and the federal control of education. These reforms are not “state led”. In fact, these reforms actually make state education agencies, school boards and taxpayers powerless and useless.
The federal mandatesare funded by the taxpayers. These taxpayer funded mandates (not voted on by the taxpayers) are administered by bureaucrats who have no power except by which they are “granted” by the Federal Department of Education and private corporations. Are these educational mandates an example “of the people, by the people, for the people”? Hardly. Instead of education being a Declaration on Independence from the Federal Department of Education, these education reforms are more akin to a nationalized version of managing human capital for state/corporate purposes.
2012-10-22 12:23:18
Source: http://www.missourieducationwatchdog.com/2012/10/the-war-of-women-on-federal-control-of.html
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Whistler Blowers, Insiders
I attended the board meeting where Laura Martin and 2 other board members voted against the RTTT application. I was so horrified when board members continually chastised Laura Martin for not “trusting” and asking too many questions.
During public comment every person but one (who told the rest of the packed house they needed to “trust” the administration)pleaded with the school board to allow for the public to be a part of the equation, and begged for them not to apply. Our district was only made aware of this grant 2 weeks ago when the board was asked to rubber stamp the application without ever even reading the grant. When no one could answer the most mundane questions, Mrs. Martin saw red flags and asked to read the grant. She was then told “it is not finished yet”. What? Not finished and they wanted for her rubber stamp? Ridiculous. Thank God for people like Laura Martin who care about using her voice to help children and act as a true advocate.