FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Pennsylvanians Restoring Education
Contacts:
Anita B Hoge 724-263-0474
Cheryl Boise
412-389-6896
Ryan Bannister 717-919-2122
Rich Felice 484-678-2236
November 24, 2014. Harrisburg, Pa;
Pennsylvanians Restoring Education, Pennsylvania Against Common Core, citizens
of Pennsylvania, parents and students are asking Governor Corbett to place a
moratorium on the data collection in the Pennsylvania Information Management
System, PIMS, on our students in all 500 school districts. We are asking the
Governor to rescind all contracts and written agreements that the Pennsylvania
Department of Education has with any Commonwealth entity and any outside
contractor who can access personally identifiable information on our children
in violation of federal law, state policy, and Chapter 4 regulations.
We demand a moratorium on the
collection of data because of contracts that have been discovered and are
signed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to disclose personally
identifiable information, which is personal data on the students and his/her
family, without the parent's knowledge or consent. This personally identifiable
information includes information on every student's personality, attitudes,
values, beliefs, and disposition, a psychological profile, called Interpersonal
Skills Standards and Anchors. This data has been illegally obtained through
deceptive means without the parent's knowledge or consent through screening,
evaluations, testing, and surveys. These illegal methods of information
gathering were actually fraudulently called "academic standards" on
the Department of Education website portal.
On October 22, Governor Corbett and the
Secretary of Education, Carolyn Dumaresq, requested that ALL attitude, value,
and disposition requirements, labeled Interpersonal Skills Standards, that
are in violation of federal law and state policy, to be expunged from the
Department of Education website portal called SAS, Standards Aligned System.
These psychological "standards" were never vetted, nor reviewed by
the State Board, nor presented to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission,
IRRC. A PennLink was sent to all 500 school districts stating that the portal
had been cleansed of these affective domain standards that had nothing to do
with academic content.
This is a temporary fix. These
standards and interventions continue to be forced on students and remediated in
the classroom EVERY DAY. A search on the SAS portal reveals over 2394 lesson
plans that align to these now repudiated "standards." The parents of
Pennsylvania want all affective domain standards, ALL curriculum, and
related lesson plans expunged from the classrooms, as well as from the website
portal. Parents are demanding that Governor Corbett and the Pennsylvania
Department of Education cease collecting and disclosing personally identifiable
information on Pennsylvania students and their families immediately.
We have discovered that Pennsylvania
continues to be the model for the nation to develop a dossier on each citizen
feeding into a national data base that collects this personally identifiable
information with the collaboration of the schools. This systemic collusion
between the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the National Center for Education
Statistics created a national ID without the knowledge of the citizens. This
system boasts that "all of the Commonwealth's children, adolescents, and
adults" will have a dossier. (CFDA-# 84.384) We have also found that this
data base in Pennsylvania is a model state for the nation to implement a "womb
to workforce" data base, (NCES Contract: CFDS-#84.384, PR/Award
#R372A090022; grants.gov Tracking #: Grant 10076087)
that would start at birth and continue until retirement which connects the
Department of Labor with wages in this dossier with the addition of the last 5
digits of the SSN or the connection to this Unique ID. (Correspondence between
Secretary of Education Gerald Zahorchak and Secretary of Labor Sandy Vito).
This creates a data base of human capital, your worth... or non-worth to the
economy. (Pennsylvania’s Workforce Data
Quality Initiative Grant) (PA-WDQI)
The federal government in collaboration with Pennsylvania
is developing psychological profiles on the families of this country through
the personally identifiable information collected in the schools that will be
used as a decision-making model for the future. The government wants to know
HOW you think and WHAT you think and everything about YOU. This is a government
intelligence operation using education to create a dossier on every family in
this country. Attitudes and practices of each family are unwittingly revealed
in the student's response in the classroom and on tests through the
"Special Ed Student Snap and Student Snap" (Pennsylvania State University,
PennData Grant: Project Number 062-14-0-042: Federal Award Number: HO27A130162)
This system was initiated in 2006 when
every child in the entire Commonwealth was given a unique ID that links this information
to the federal government with a standardized system that requires compliance
for more information gathering. (Contract with eScholar 2006) (Deloitte
Contracting, Complete Data Warehouse, 2007)
Pennsylvania Senior college students graduating that year would now be
age 28. Every person.... EVERY person age 28 and under, schooled in
Pennsylvania, has a psychometric profile, an intelligence profile kept by the
state of Pennsylvania.... In 10 years, every Pennsylvania schooled person, age
38 and under.... In 20 years, every person age 48 and under.... In 30 years,
Pennsylvania will have a complete psychographic on every person in the
workforce and on every child born thereafter in the workforce. This is an
American electronic model eerily similar to East Germany's Stasi of yesteryear.
Governor Corbett, do you realize that
your new baby grandson has been granted his own unique national ID?
The Common Core Standards are the
vehicle to nationally standardize the data collection as the autonomy of the
school is stripped from the local level and the teacher in the classroom. The
individual mandate, similar to the Obamacare individual mandate, requires
students to conform to this national agenda. (eScholar Contract) There is no
privacy. Governor Corbett, this is a federal system of control from the top
down, a "backward instructional
design model" bypassing our elected state legislature. (Keystone Exams
Statement of Work, Contract: Proposed Amendments/Student CDT) (PennData,
Pennsylvania State University)
The Common Core Standards, a grant from
the National Center of Education Statistics, the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, ESEA Flexibility Waiver issued by Secretary Duncan, and an Executive Order (Executive Order12866)
that was given by President Obama without Congressional authority and without
state legislative oversight mandates a national data base and a nationalized
curriculum where every state will have the exact same affective standards and
use a national test that will force everyone into compliance toward the same
attitudes, values, and beliefs. This "design down system" means that
the curriculum must align to psychological standards, teachers must intervene
with standardized psychological treatment when computerized adaptive feedback identifies
immediately where to intervene, and the national test will monitor the progress
to be sure every student is standardized to meet those psychological standards.
Teachers must remediate each child to insure that the students are absorbing
the standardized attitudes, values, beliefs, and dispositions.
Teachers, also monitored with a unique
ID, will be held accountable to the practice of psychology, although not
state-licensed practitioners and vulnerable to malpractice issues. The students
must meet Interpersonal Skills proficiency, or teachers will be threatened with
reprisal or eventually fired. (ESEA Flexibility Waiver, Principle 1, Principle
2) The contract we have discovered states that Common Core is a "model
curriculum." Common Core provides 2394 foolproof validated scripts with
which to remediate each child's affective domain to achieve proficiency. We
have also discovered that these Interpersonal Skills Standards are also
embedded in other academic areas of
Career Education and Work, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Health Safety and
Physical Education. The test contract in Appendix B for the Keystone Exams
states, "The diagnostic assessments are intended to be easily administered
online and provide immediate feedback of students strengths and
weaknesses."
Clearly this data collection system has
utilized education funds to set up a national system of surveillance and
interventions on our students that is structured from the federal level down
into our each classroom. Huge amounts of
our taxpayer money have been used to fund this system of surveillance creating
a dossier on each student and their family for the purpose of creating the
worker desired by big business and enforced by the arbitrary authoritative
state. (Secretaries Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, Department of
Labor)
- We are requesting Governor Corbett to stop the data collection.
- Governor Corbett, stop the invasion of privacy.
- Governor Corbett, we want legislation NOW, to protect our families, protect our children, and protect our children's future.
- We are calling on the Attorney General to investigate the data collection.
America used to educate its children and let them create
their own world.
Now, we are creating their world and forcing them to live in it.
~ Joe Esposito, Oklahoma
Now, we are creating their world and forcing them to live in it.
~ Joe Esposito, Oklahoma
