Thursday, December 10, 2015

History Of America's Sell Out (1946-2015)...

Senate Passes Communist Every Student Succeeds Act (85-12)  U.S. Senate: Roll Call Vote

http://www.rense.com/general96/everystudent.html
 
It took 69 years (1946-2015)...not Dr. Mort's calculated 50 years.
See Mort quote below.

Thanks everyone out there who fought this communist takeover of America through the schools, fought right through to today, December 9, 2015,  and  allowed American children and teachers to have at least an extra 19 years of so-called traditional academic education and some hope for life in a free America.

Quote from 3D, published in 1999:

ESEA Is The Final Chapter Of The Montgomery County Plan From 1946!!!

Dr. Paul Mort’s statement below is right on target. It took exactly fifty years to implement “The Blueprint” in every school of the nation. Letter of transmittal states:

[The] program should be put into operation gradually… and Dr. Paul Mort and others have accumulated evidence which shows a period of almost fifty years between the establishment of need (need assessment, etc.) and the school programs geared to meet it. If the school as an agency of society is to justify itself for the period ahead of us, it must be accepted that its fundamental function is to serve the people of the entire community, the very young children, the children of middle years, early adolescent youth, older youth and the adults as well.

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com , pages 62-65:

And now, a bit more history, and a thank you to a great American, the late Congressman John Ashbrook, OH, who warned Americans regarding federal control/takeover of education and loss of local control.

GOD BLESS THE LATE JOHN ASHBROOK!!!!!!

ON JULY 18, 1961, CONGRESSMAN JOHN M. ASHBROOK DELIVERED A SPEECH BEFORE CONgress entitled “The Myth of Federal Aid to Education without Control” (Congressional Record: pp.11868­11880). Excerpts from his very important speech, which documented and exposed the plans for the internationalization and transformation of American education, follow:

That there was any doubt of the Federal bureaucrats’ intentions in this matter was laid to rest with the discovery of a Health, Education, and Welfare publication, A Federal Education Agency for the Future, which is a report of the Office of Education, dated April 1961.... I feel that its pronouncements are a blueprint for complete domination and direction of our schools from Washington. The publication was not popularly distributed and there was some difficulty in obtaining a copy.

Fifty-six pages of findings contain recommendations which call for more and more Federal participation and control and repeatedly stress the need for Federal activity in formulating educational policies. It recommends a review of teacher preparation, curriculum and textbooks. It calls for an implementation of international education projects in cooperation with UNESCO in the United Nations, and ministries of education abroad. Of course, it recommends an enlarged office of education and the use of social scientists as key advisers.... It places stress on “implementing international educational projects in the United States and bringing maximum effectiveness to the total international educational effort.” Would not the Communists, with their footholds and infiltrations in these organizations, love this? No detail has been overlooked—“curriculum will have to undergo continual reshaping and upgrading; and new techniques and tools of instruction will have to be developed” and “teacher preparation, textbooks, and the curriculum in these subject fields must be improved in the decade ahead.” In the report… we find the vehicle for Federal domination of our schools. …The battle lines are now drawn between those who seek control and uniformity of our local schools and those who oppose this further bureaucratic centralization in Washington. It is my sincere hope that the Congress will respond to this challenge and defeat the aid to education bills which will implement the goals incorporated in A Federal Education Agency for the Future.  Ashbrook went on to point out that [Under] The Mission [as stated in the report]… the basic mission of the Office [of Education]to “promote the cause of education” remains unchanged since its establishment in 1867.

…What is meant when he [Sterling M. McMurrin, Commissioner of Education] says, “I anticipate that much of this activity will take place through normal administrative processes within the Office and the Department”? In the jargon of Washington bureaucracy this means that the report will be largely implemented on the administrative level without Congressional action and approval.

The House Committee on Education and Labor recently voted out H.R. 7904 which would extend the National Defense Education Act.… It is evident that the administration has chosen this vehicle for enacting piecemeal the recommendations of A Federal Education Agency for the Future.


 Ashbrook continued to quote from Agency for the Future which he said “laid bare the real nemesis of the Federal bureaucrats—the tradition of local control.” The report stated, “The tradition of local control should no longer be permitted to inhibit Office of Education leadership.”

The Committee on Mission and Organization called for [An] Office of Educational Research that would administer a separate program of extra-mural contracts and grants for basic and experimental research in disciplines bearing upon the educational situation, and would serve the other parts of the Bureau with advice on research problems…. Since it is presumed that the Centers, oriented to education as it is organized and administered, will deal with educational problems directly confronting schools and colleges, it is believed desirable that extra-mural research be significantly attentive to basic problems of human development, training and teaching, regardless of whether or not they are acknowledged as immediately pressing problems by educators. In short, some research should be conducted precisely because it challenges the assumptions upon which practicing educators are proceeding.

The above is obviously a reference to behavioral sciences research which, until that time, had not found a permanent home at the local school educator level nor was there the need to conduct such research in order to challenge the “assumptions upon which practicing educators are proceeding.” Attached to the Committee’s report were appendices from which the following excerpts are taken:

Appendix B

The Mission of the Office of Education in the 1960s

The schools of tomorrow must prepare their students for living in a world of continuous and rapid change, presenting them with unprecedented social, economic, and political problems. We must, in fact, give to education a character that will initiate and support a process of lifelong learning if Americans are to keep abreast of the accelerating advent of new knowledge and of the increasing complexity of modern life. These prospective conditions are already suggested in part by the rapidly increasing demand for highly specialized and professional skills. During the coming decade, new means must be developed for identifying and releasing student potential; curriculums will have to undergo continual reshaping and upgrading; and new techniques and tools of instruction will have to be developed.…

• Education is basic to effort to bring about an enduringly peaceful world.
• Next decade will bring closer and multiple relationships with Ministries of Education
abroad and international organizations, such as UNESCO, the Organization of
American States, International Bureau of Education.
• Variations among States and school districts in standards of instruction, facilities,
staff, and services expose serious inadequacies. Our progress toward the ideal of
equality of educational opportunity is tragically uneven.
• In the area of international educational cooperation, in particular, it must play the
major role, since only the Federal Government can enter into agreements with other
governments. Along with these responsibilities should be included that of stimulating
and participating activity in the process of formulation, examination, and reformulation
of the goals of our national society in terms of educational objectives.
• The development of uniform, consistent and compatible statistical data in all States
and in all institutions of higher education will call for both technical and financial
assistance to these sources from the Office of Education….
• Economists, sociologists, and other social scientists will be needed on the staff to
assist in dealing with educational problems in their total context.

National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Amendment of 1961—Additional Views, which accompanied H.R. 7904, included very important testimony regarding the dangers of the NDEA and the recommendations made in the above Agency for the Future report. A discussion of the dangers of federal control follows:

We [the undersigned] reject, furthermore, the philosophy that there can exist Federal aid to any degree without Federal control. We further hold that there should not be Federal aid without Federal control. It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to so supervise and control its allocations that waste and misuse is kept to a minimum. Since we do not desire such federal control in the field of public education, we do not desire Federal aid to education.

We should never permit the American educational system to become the vehicle for experimentation by educational ideologues. A careful analysis of the writings and statements of vocal and influential spokesmen in the governmental and educational fields indicates a desire on the part of some of these individuals to utilize the educational system as a means of transforming the economic and social outlook of the United States.

We point to a statement by Dr. Harold Rugg, for many years professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who declared in Frontiers of Democracy on May 15, 1943 (pp. 247­254) concerning the teachers’ colleges:

Let them become powerful national centers for the graduate study of ideas and they will thereby become forces of creative imagination standing at the very vortex of the ideational revolution. Let us make our teacher education institutions into great direction finders for our new society, pointers of the way, dynamic trailblazers of the New Frontiers.


 We could supply pages of documentation analyzing the type of new frontier planned. It is indeed a Socialist frontier. It had been hoped that the philosophy of education expressed by Dr. Rugg and his cohorts back in the early forties, had long since been repudiated. However, in April of 1961, the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare published a booklet entitled A Federal Education Agency for the Future. Anyone who doubts that the Federal aid to education bills now before Congress would mean eventual Federal control of education, should carefully read and analyze for himself what the Office of Education is planning for tomorrow’s schools. They openly predict their “need” for new powers on the passage of the multimillion-dollar aid legislation now before us. They recommend that their Office of Education be elevated to the status of U.S. Education Agency, “to reflect the more active role of this unit of Government.” They envision the new Agency’s mission as one of “leadership” (p. 42), “national policy making” (p. 43), “national planning” (p. 47), “to prepare students to understand the world of tomorrow” (p. 40). The Office of Education writers further say “along with these responsibilities should be included that of stimulating and participating in the process of formulation, examination, and reformulation of the goals of our society in the terms of educational objectives” (p. 43).

[Ed. Note: A careful warning was sounded through the National Defense Education Act Amendment of 1961—Additional Views when the Congressmen said, “We reject that there can exist Federal aid to any degree without Federal control. We further hold that there should not be Federal aid without Federal control.” This applies as well to all of the voucher and tax credit proposals before us today (in 1999) flying under the banner of “choice.” The Mission Statement of the Office of Education clearly called for the establishment of the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the “wholistic” approach to education through the inclusion of social scientists in the education process—a clear departure from academically oriented educational pursuits into intrusive areas totally unrelated to education.

Even taking into account the collectivist direction taken by radical educators in the first half of this century, this movement could not have borne fruit had it not been for President Dwight Eisenhower’s Commission on National Goals which produced Goals for Americans in 1960. These goals, along with the implementation of PPBS and Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, seem to have provided the catalyst for the “planned economy” being implemented in the United States in 1999.]

House ESEA Roll Call Vote:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 665
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

      S 1177      YEA-AND-NAY      2-Dec-2015      7:18 PM
      QUESTION:  On Agreeing to the Conference Report
      BILL TITLE: To reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to ensure that every child achieves
 
PRES
Republican
178
64
 
3
Democratic
181
 
 
7
Independent
 
 
 
 
TOTALS
359
64
 
10


         ---- YEAS    359 ---

Abraham
Adams
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Ashford
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Benishek
Bera
Beyer
Bilirakis
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (MI)
Black
Blum
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Bost
Boustany
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Butterfield
Byrne
Calvert
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Coffman
Cohen
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Conyers
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Costello (PA)
Courtney
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cummings
Curbelo (FL)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
Davis, Rodney
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Denham
Dent
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Diaz-Balart
Dingell
Doggett
Dold
Donovan
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Edwards
Ellison
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foster
Foxx
Frankel (FL)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gibbs
Gibson
Goodlatte
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Grothman
Guthrie
Gutiérrez
Hahn
Hanna
Hardy
Hartzler
Hastings
Heck (NV)
Heck (WA)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Hudson
Huffman
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Issa
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, E. B.
Jolly
Joyce
Kaptur
Katko
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
Kline
Knight
Kuster
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latta
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren
Long
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
MacArthur
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Marino
Matsui
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McNerney
McSally
Meehan
Meng
Messer
Mica
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Moore
Moulton
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nolan
Norcross
Nugent
Nunes
O'Rourke
Olson
Pallone
Pascrell
Paulsen
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pittenger
Pitts
Pocan
Poliquin
Polis
Pompeo
Posey
Price (NC)
Price, Tom
Quigley
Rangel
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (KY)
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rouzer
Roybal-Allard
Royce
Ruiz
Rush
Russell
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sarbanes
Scalise
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Serrano
Sessions
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Speier
Stefanik
Stivers
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Trott
Tsongas
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velázquez
Visclosky
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (FL)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yarmuth
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke
 
---- NAYS    64 ---

Amash
Babin
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Buck
Chabot
Chaffetz
Clawson (FL)
Culberson
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duncan (SC)
Farenthold
Fleming
Franks (AZ)
Gohmert
Gosar
Gowdy
Graves (LA)
Guinta
Harper
Harris
Hice, Jody B.
Holding
Huelskamp
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kelly (MS)
King (IA)
Labrador
Lamborn
Loudermilk
Love
Lummis
Marchant
Massie
Meadows
Miller (FL)
Mooney (WV)
Mulvaney
Palazzo
Palmer
Perry
Poe (TX)
Ratcliffe
Rogers (AL)
Rohrabacher
Rothfus
Salmon
Sanford
Schweikert
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Stewart
Stutzman
Walker
Weber (TX)
Wenstrup
Yoder
Yoho
 

---- NOT VOTING    10 ---
 
Aguilar
Cuellar
Garrett
Meeks
Payne
Ruppersberger
Sanchez, Loretta
Takai
Webster (FL)
Williams

         

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

(ESEA/ESSA) Letter From Senator William T. Ligon, Jr. To Speaker of the House Paul Ryan

Americans will not forget how their elected officials voted on this unconstitutional bill.

SOS vote postponed until tomorrow, Wed, Dec. 9 at 10:30 AM.

CALL,CALL, CALL 202-224-3121 to vote NO. Also call Georgia Senators Isakson and Perdue and request they forward copies of Sen. Ligon's letter to EVERY Senator before the vote.

http://media.campaigner.com/media/25/257620/Speaker%20Ryan%20ESSA%20Letter%20to%20Congress.pdf

William Ligon

District 3

158 Scranton Connector

Brunswick, Georgia 31525

Office: 912.261.2263

Email: william@senatorligon.com

421-C State Capitol
Atlanta, Georgia 30334

Phone: 404.654.0045

Fax: 404.651.9703

Email: William.Ligon@senate.ga.gov
Georgia Senate
Majority Caucus Chairman

Committees
Judiciary Non-Civil, Vice Chairman

Appropriations

Health and Human Services

Judiciary

Ethics

Rules, Ex-Officio
 
December 2, 2015
The Honorable Paul Ryan

Speaker of the House

United States House of Representatives

1233 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20515

Dear Speaker Ryan,

As a State Senator, it never ceases to amaze me how often our federal officials easily overlook the constitutional principle of federalism and the U.S. Constitution's guarantee that the States have a republican form of government. This lack of constitutional integrity is especially true in the arena of education. As someone who has taken the lead in the Georgia Legislature on attempting to restore state, local, and parental sovereignty over education, I recognize that the real obstacle is the federal government.

I can honestly say I understand the frustration people are feeling in the Republican Party and why they are so willing to support total outsiders in the race for President. People are frustrated that the federal government is too large, fails to do what the Constitution requires, meddles where it has no real authority, and actually creates more problems than it solves.

The latest attempt by Congress to reauthorize ESEA under its new name, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), is a prime example of how the federal government exceeds its constitutional authority. Many of our supporters in the Republican base are wondering why we need a 1061-page federal bill dealing with education policy. I have been told by a member of our congressional delegation that bill's length was needed to repeal many existing federal laws dealing with education. Unfortunately, a review of the bill reveals not much in the way of repeal but that once again the federal government is driving education policy in every State in the Union through grants and waivers.

I certainly recognize that the federal ESSA provides somewhat more flexibility for States than the previous No Child Left Behind (NCLB) reauthorization of ESEA. However, it is not the proper role for the federal government to guide education policy. When will federal officials start to realize that their massive educational reform agenda, almost approaching a 30-year effort, has not improved education? In fact, the federal reform agenda has thrown away countless billions of taxpayer funds into progressive educational schemes that have greatly contributed to the ill-prepared, unruly, and polarized student bodies we now see in many of our universities today.


As for ESSA specifically, here are a few of the issues that I find troubling in the bill. Although Section 8544 (p. 859) assures us that States face no penalties for withdrawing from the Common Core standards or for otherwise revising their standards, ESSA requires that state standards must align with higher-education requirements. Since federal mandates have already ensured that our colleges and universities have aligned their entrance requirements with Common Core (known as College and Career Ready) then it would appear that we again have an entire process, both lengthy and expensive, to readdress college entrance requirements before Georgia could exit the Common Core. Furthermore, ESSA still requires "career and technical education standards" that must align to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). It is also apparent that ESSA still requires state educational plans, which includes standards, to comply with 11 existing federal statutes, and that the Secretary of Education must sign off on these plans (Section 1005, amending Section 1111(a)(1)(B), pp. 38-39). These statutes run the gamut from Head Start to WIOA. As with all the previous reform legislation from Goals 2000 onward, this bill is intertwined and additive to the overall federal framework for education. ESSA may mitigate some of the onerous effects of NCLB, but it continues to advance the top-down, federal reform agenda.

I am also greatly troubled by the bill's language that expands the federal role in government preschool in Section 9212, bringing us closer to President's Obama's vision for universal preschool. The best research shows that early education has little to no effect on long-term learning. In fact, the Department of Health and Human Services conducted its own rigorous scientific evaluation of Head Start and found that three- and four-year-old preschoolers had no measureable benefits from the program when evaluated in both the first and third grades. The study even failed to show improvements in parenting outcomes and child health outcomes. There were even negative social-emotional development effects associated with these children who had attended Head Start.

Early education through government programs not only wastes money, but is based on a faulty foundation. The best early childhood learning takes place with family, not government programs. Furthermore, the assurances (pp. 968-969) that the Secretary of Education cannot prescribe early learning development guidelines, standards, or specific assessments, preschool curriculum and the like are meaningless when considering that preschool authority rests within the Department of Health and Human Services (p. 971), and such programs already require adherence to Head Start, which demands federal performance standards, or the Baby Common Core as some have dubbed it. There are already 45 federal early learning and childcare programs that spend $14.2 billion annually. This bill continues to expand early learning subsidies and will add another $1 billion in spending over the next four years.

Within this topic of early childhood education, I would be remiss if I did not also mention that data collection on these children is invasive and that these early learning data systems are designed to link with not only the K-12 data systems, but also post-secondary data, and labor data, as well as universal newborn screening and health data systems. This is readily apparent from a quick review of Early Learning Challenge grants from various states. It is truly a cradle-to-grave system of government data collection on the citizens of this nation. Congress is paving the way for the next generation to live in the" brave new world" which facilitates the government's management of its citizens. If history is any guide, when government controls this much information on its citizens, it will abuse its power.

ESSA continues the federal testing mandates (Section 1005, amending Section 1111(b)(2), pp. 52-54). And the types of assessments dictated by the bill include subjective assessments of students’ skills and psychological attributes via the requirement to assess higher-order thinking skills (HOTS). Even though the bill states that assessments will not evaluate or access personal or family beliefs or attitudes, by definition, HOTS, as developed in Bloom's Taxonomy, includes not only the cognitive domain, but the affective domain and the psychomotor domain. Particularly, the affective domain includes attitudes, feelings, values, motivations, and the like. The federal government has no business imposing any requirements concerning state assessments, but certainly should not require assessments that target students' psychological profiles.

The bill also incentivizes the Obama administration’s pet concept of schools as "community learning centers," perhaps more accurately dubbed "parent replacement centers." This section of the bill, Part B- 21st Century Community Learning Centers (Section 4201, starting on p. 489), creates a service center for youth development that could offer anything from health care and wellness programs to service learning or "environmental literacy." In addition, the Promise Neighborhoods (Section 4624, starting on p. 606) provide another smorgasbord that offer services to train families to promote early learning and child development as well as provide "social, health, nutrition, and mental health services and supports, for children, family members, and community members..." (609-610). The nanny-state just continues to grow in this legislation.

Although I have other concerns about the bill, I would also like to say that the process epitomizes everything that’s wrong with how Washington conducts the people’s business. ESSA was drafted behind closed doors, by unknown parties. The news was sprung on the public only a day or two before a conference committee was hastily appointed. No draft of the bill was released. After a few hours of discussion, the conference committee quickly approved the document the public was not allowed to see. A final draft of the 1,061-page bill wasn’t released until November 30, with a vote planned in the House only two or three days later. Personally, I have not had enough time to wade through every part of the bill. No congressman should be expected to vote to pass a tome he hasn’t even had time to read, and the people are right to expect that their congressman will refuse to do so.

Let me also remind Congress that throughout the federal government's educational reform efforts, there has been a woeful lack of concern for the legislative process in the States. For decades, each reauthorization of ESEA, along with grants such as Race to the Top, ignore the right of the people to decide if they want federal involvement in their local schools. Congress sets up the flow of money straight to State Executive branches. When the people's representatives in the States are bypassed, we no longer have a republican form of government where education is concerned.

Finally, it should give Republicans great pause to consider that every anti-Common Core grassroots group in the nation appear to strongly oppose this bill, and the very organizations (National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers) that masterminded and engineered the development and rollout of the Common Core are quite pleased with the ESSA and give it their full endorsement. It should also be another red flag that ESSA is a bill that President Obama will readily sign. By now, surely we know that his view of America and his solutions for America are quite different from those of us who believe in a self-governing Republic of free people who do not need a nanny state to look after our best interests. We just need big government to get out of the way and let the people in each of our states determine the best course for their families and their children's education.

Therefore, I am urging you not to even take up this bill for consideration. Instead, I urge you to wait until we have a new President in the White House, hopefully one who would work for greatly decreasing the federal role in education. If this bill is brought to a vote, I ask you to vote no.

Sincerely,

William T. Ligon, Jr.

State Senator, 3rd District


 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




Saturday, December 5, 2015

The "Hidden Hand" Behind The Deadly Esea Curtain

                                                                         ericcaprarese.com 

WHO WROTE THE ESEA LEGISLATION?

(Unelected staff is running the United States of America...
and we thought we had a representative form of government?!?)

All emphasis in this post is added by ed.

Dear Rep. Kline:

Those opposed to the Reauthorized ESEA/ESSA thank you for informing us regarding the source of the text of ESEA. 

Prior to the final vote on the bill, you singled out... with high praise... Mr. Brad Thomas, your Senior Education Policy Adviser, for his important role over a period of five years in the crafting of the ESEA Reauthorization legislation.

May we, therefore, assume that Mr. Thomas was one of the major architects of this unconstitutional family/nation-killing bill? 


Mr. Brad Thomas
Senior Education Policy Advisor
U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce

(Click on following link for information on Mr. Thomas, including his salary etc.)
http://congressional-staff.insidegov.com/l/16501/Brad-M-Thomas


If so, we feel it is crucial that the American people understand the apparent sources and the alien political and economic philosophy behind this legislation.

From whence does Mr. Thomas, and possibly the rest of Mr. Kline’s educational staff (and perhaps the Senate education staff as well), draw its expertise?

Apparently Mr. Thomas has been a partaker of and contributor to a colossal international cabal (China, Russia, Australia, you name it) under the umbrella of the Content in Context (CIC) International Markets Forum.

Is the latter entity the breeding ground to turn our children into workforce fodder?

As Thomas is a major architect of the bill, may we surmise that the ESEA legislation was written according to Internationalist, Socialist, and Communist plans for the implementation of a global U. N. lifelong workforce training  agenda, using our children to spin off profits for the global elite?

Monday, June 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Breakout Strand: Research & PolicySouth American B"


There is an agreement in the Nation's Capital that reforming our education system is essential for U.S. global economic

competitiveness.

There is not always agreement, however, about the best way to achieve this goal. This session will feature top Congressional staffers from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the House Education and the Workforce Committee to discuss how each body is approaching education reform, STEM, and reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Moderator: Jonah StuartTeaching Strategies

Panelists:

Soncia Coleman, United States Senate
Brad Thomas, U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce


Mr. Thomas: Did your staff take a poll of American taxpayers, parents, and  teachers to find out if “they” agreed with the above supposition that "reforming our education system is essential for U.S. global economic competitiveness?"

Mr. Thomas's role as a major architect of the bill enables one to see that the ESEA legislation calls for nothing other than the implementation of an unconstitutional global United Nations workforce training agenda (limited learning for lifelong labor) using our children to spin off profits for the global elite.

Mr. Thomas’ session was just one of many sessions at the 2012 Conference of CIC demonstrating the enormous global outreach of this organization. It is imperative to review the pages upon pages of sessions devoted to changing our children, our families and our world.

The following is just one example of the all-encompassing scope of 2012 conference. This session discusses the management of private schools, according to China, India, and Australia!  

Education and the Future Competitiveness of the American Workforce

The Users’ Perspective: What Our Schools Need and Why

Sunday, June 3




11:15 am - 12:15 pm

South American

 This unique panel of key educational organization stakeholders - in education ministries, schools procurement organizations and the management of private schools from around the world - will share their perspectives and insights from the users’ perspective into the local dynamics of their fast-growing K-12 markets and what they mean about the products and services schools in their part of the world need.  (Emph. added,blog)

Moderator: Peter Schneider, CEO, ict Maven Group

Panelists:

Jing ZOU, CEO, First Decision Education Group (China)
 Vineet Joshi, IAS, Chairman, Central Board of Secondary Education (India)

Susan Mann, CEO, Education Services Australia (Australia) 
Sponsored by – BrainPOPAtomic Learning, and ePals

 
CIC meets annually. The information for their 2015 Conference is also available for review.

RELATED QUESTION AND SUGGESTION:


How many other like-minded congressional staffers contributed to the text of the Every Child Succeeds Act?

Are we taxpayers and voters willing to permit unelected backroom staffers, colluding with foreign "entities", to write legislation which will affect our children's futures (and upward mobility)? 

Is this the "new" Congressional system we want to pass onto our children without a whimper or complaint?  How much of our nation's legislation is crafted in this manner? 

Since the  careful reading and study by our elected officials of hundreds/thousands of bills is  humanly impossible,  staff must be called on to perform this extremely important task and to make recommendations for changes and or recommendations of "ought to" or "ought not to" pass.

Perhaps the requirement of our elected officials to swear to uphold the Constitution of the USA should be part of the hiring procedure for congressional  Directors of Personnel and individual staff members.  One's support or non-support of the U.S. Constitution should be the litmus test for hiring and firing. National groups calling for reform of Congress might begin by calling for such a requirement.

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