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By Donna Garner

I can hardly contain my excitement! Finally Congress has listened to us grassroots citizens who have been agonizing for more than two years about the Obama administration’s takeover of the public schools through Common Core Standards and Race to the Top.

On 12.28.11, I wrote an article entitled “ Feds To Be Able To Track Your School Children’s Personal Information” ( http://educationviews.org/2011/12/28/feds-to-be-able-to-track-your-school-childrens-personal-information/ ) in which I stated:

The Obama administration’s federal takeover of the public schools is finally beginning to resonate across this country. The New York Post article dated 12.27.11 and entitled “How the Feds Are Tracking Your Kid” (posted at the bottom of this page) should make every parent in America furious.  “As of Jan. 3, 2012, interstate and intergovernmental access to your child’s personal information will be practically unlimited. The federal government will have a de facto nationwide database of supposedly confidential student information.” read on

Why ‘No Parents Allowed’?

By www.parentalrights.org

When I was in elementary school, mom was there on a regular basis helping out in the classroom or the library, chaperoning field trips, or leading an advanced reading program for gifted students. And she wasn’t the only mom doing her part to improve our education.

The Department of Education in 1986 released “What Works: Research About Teaching and Learning.” The report was divided up by setting – Home, Classroom, and School. The first principle listed under the Classroom section was, “Parental involvement helps children learn more effectively.” Again, this was in the classroom. read on

If parents and taxpayers want to know how they can bail out of the Obama administration’s takeover of the public schools through Common Core Standards/Race to the Top, they need to read this article in today’s Education Week.

A group of concerned businessmen, educators, and state policymakers just finished hammering out a model resolution that will help states to craft legislation to oppose this federal takeover of the public schools.

Texas Commissioner of Education Robert Scott was one of the attendees along with such people as Williamson Evers of the Hoover Institute.

Even though the final document has not yet been approved by the ALEC Board, here is a link to a rough draft of the model resolution:

http://www.quickanded.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Comprehensive-Legislative-Package-Opposing-the-Common-Core-State-Standards-Initiative3.pdf

By The Heritage Foundation

Last winter, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) traveled his state, holding a series of townhalls in which he touted a significant but politically unpopular plan: asking public school teachers to accept a pay freeze and begin contributing 1.5 percent of their salaries toward their health care plans, whereas before they paid nothing. It’s a battle that pitted Christie against powerful teachers unions, and it’s a fight that has brought the issue of teacher pay to the center of the public square. read on

By Judicial Watch

Education Standards, Multiculturalism, and Multilingual Services

By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, Canada Free Press, Special Reprint Permission

The goal of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act was to have every student proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014. Proposed by George W. Bush shortly after he took office, the bill had bipartisan support in Congress. The Act required states to develop assessments in basic skills for all students in certain grades in order for states to receive federal funding. read on