Charter schools in themselves are a severe problem and there are many reasons for my saying that:
1. The lack of over-site by the individual county school boards and the state school board as well as the Commissioner of Education - you can also add the legislators.
2. The lenient legislation which has been passed addressing ONLY the charter schools aimed at low-income students when the state Constitution states all of Florida's children should be treated the same.
3. Showing the unfairness, vouchers are distributed by family income levels.
4. Charter school corruption is out of control, but the legislators continue to receive donations from people involved in the Charter school business.
5. And last but not least - the "CONFLICT OF INTEREST" SHOWN BY OUR LEGISLATORS IN OWNING CHARTER SCHOOLS AND AT THE SAME TIME PRESENTING AND VOTING ON CHARTER SCHOOL LEGISLATION.
Along the way, this lucrative for-profit industry convinced Florida’s Legislature and governor, through House Bill 7069, that their privately-owned facilities should be funded at equal levels to Florida’s 4,200 public schools. This all comes despite research showing charters have the highest closure rate in the nation with over 300 closed charters and worse academic performance than similar publicly run schools in Florida’s major cities.
CHOICE SCHOOLS - CHARTER/CHOICE USUALLY PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES!
THEY NO LONGER TRY TO HIDE IT -
YOUR CHILDREN ARE THEIR "HUMAN CAPITAL"
2018 NATIONAL AUDIT for SCHOOLS of CHOICE!
What began as an educational movement has turned into one of the nation’s fastest-growing industries, backed by real-estate developers, promoted by politicians and using our children as
HUMAN CAPITAL!
HUMAN CAPITAL!
Investors are now looking at your children as their “golden calf”
and they intend to "milk" them all the way to the bank!
It is interesting to note that at the time of the founding of our country, the study of Latin and Greek, which is what the term “classical education” originally implied, was not something they learned in college, but something they were expected to know before they got there. An additional note is this education also included the Bible so for those that state our founders were not Christian, I might suggest you return to school.
Charter schools who claim they are teaching "classical education", I would be interested in knowing what their definition of classical education is. Claiming you are using a curriculum that is "not" named Common Core but is aligned to Common Core, is NOT Classical Education.
Charter schools who claim they are teaching "classical education", I would be interested in knowing what their definition of classical education is. Claiming you are using a curriculum that is "not" named Common Core but is aligned to Common Core, is NOT Classical Education.
TELL THE WALTON FAMILY TO HOLD CHARTER SCHOOL PROFITERS ACCOUNTABLE INSTEAD OF BEING
PART OF THE PROBLEM!
In the Public Interest is a great "Watchdog for America" since American's have to focus on so many things - they have the ability and resources to get to the truth - and truth is what they present.
Every day it seems like there is another headline about waste, fraud and abuse in for-profit charter schools across the country. Too many school districts lack the resources or political will to properly oversee a rapidly growing number of charter schools which, according to a recent report, led to at least $200 million in misspent taxpayer funds. All of this bad press should be enough to make even the most ardent supporters of charters welcome robust oversight and accountability.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t quite worked out that way. ITPI and the American Federation of Teachers just published Brought to you by Wal-Mart, a new report showing how The Walton Family Foundation (WFF) set the stage for the current spate of fraud in the industry. For over 20 years the foundation operated by Wal-Mart heirs has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the growth of charter schools and prioritized quantity over quality and ideology over good public policy. As you can read in the report, the Walton Family Foundation and groups it donates to have opposed common-sense regulations that ensure charter schools are serving students’ best interests. MORE
Every day it seems like there is another headline about waste, fraud and abuse in for-profit charter schools across the country. Too many school districts lack the resources or political will to properly oversee a rapidly growing number of charter schools which, according to a recent report, led to at least $200 million in misspent taxpayer funds. All of this bad press should be enough to make even the most ardent supporters of charters welcome robust oversight and accountability.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t quite worked out that way. ITPI and the American Federation of Teachers just published Brought to you by Wal-Mart, a new report showing how The Walton Family Foundation (WFF) set the stage for the current spate of fraud in the industry. For over 20 years the foundation operated by Wal-Mart heirs has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the growth of charter schools and prioritized quantity over quality and ideology over good public policy. As you can read in the report, the Walton Family Foundation and groups it donates to have opposed common-sense regulations that ensure charter schools are serving students’ best interests. MORE
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TO WALMART: Considering your supporrt of the TPA/TPP and having been involved for years in the ruination of our children's future's through their education and your support of ruining the American economy with your support of the Heritage Foundation in regard to NAFTA - can you just be BIG BOYS & GIRLS and admit your support a New World Order?
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THE CHARTER SCHOOL TRAP by Charlotte Iserbyt Part 1 Part 2
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CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE A MASSIVE TROJAN HORSE CREATING
FOR-PROFIT EDUCATION WITH NO PARENTAL INPUT!
I have watched the Bill and Melinda Gates and Walmart Family Foundation funnel billions of dollars into the education of our children - but not good education as they have supported Common Core from the beginning and also support Charter schools. Not sure how to hurt Gates in the wallet but Americans certainly can Walmart especially since almost all of their merchandise comes from China or Mexico. I would rather pay a couple of $$ more than support Walmart/China/Mexico or any of the so called American countries manufacturing in China.
Lamar Alexander said "we are going right into the maternity wards or whatever they are called and get those babies...." Yes he did! He has taken credit for writing the current ESSA 2015 with the help of the previously approved legislation and the Labor Department. I think the "monster" he is deserves to be given full credit for the damage he has already caused to our children and the fraud that has been perpritrated upon the American people for his guidance into the School-to-Work agenda of the New World Order. He needs to be remembered for his role in the destruction of this country and using our children to accomplish his socialistic goals. All parents would do well to watch both of these video's.
1989 Governor's Conference in Wichita, Kansas
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These 3 individuals - Lamar Alexander, Shirley McCune and Dr. Frank Newman were considered in 1989 to be top authorities in education and how our children should be schooled. They are all 3 socialists in their thinking and strong supporters of the industrialist and behaviorist theories of John Dewey, B.F. Skinner, Robert Muller, E. D. Hirsch, Maurice Strong and many others who have supported the indoctrination of our children through the privatization of our schools. Charter schools are an evil Trojan Horse with men and women of power using our children for financial and political gains.
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Kansas did, indeed, restructure its educational and social services using McCune’s blueprints for Kansas education. The Catholic schools in the Diocese of Wichita became part of this state educational restructuring by a decision of the Catholic Superintendent and Associate Superintendent of Schools in Wichita. Concerned Catholics, after unsuccessful attempts to deal with these diocesan officials, sought canonical relief to rid their schools of this destructive form of education. This tells us how dangerous this restructuring to the character of Catholic schools of Wichita must have been. What is now present is Catholic schools in Kansas?
The Archdiocese of Kansas City follows the Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative based on Common Core. The Diocese of Wichita made the following statement: “…We believe that the advantages of being State Accredited are many and we plan to stay accredited until such time the negatives outweigh the positives…”(6) Isn’t this interesting in light of the Diocese of Wichita adopting the Effective school restructuring program of Shirley McCune’s in the late 80’s or early 90’s?
Further, with regard to Catholic education in Wichita, the following activities took place in or around the time of the Wichita Kansas Governor’s Summit. "Myrliss Hershey, of Friends University, [Wichita] Kansas, has conducted Inservice Workshops for teachers at the Ingalls School in Wichita. Ingalls School is a global education center in Wichita. Catholic teachers are sent to Ingalls to be trained as global educators."(Emphasis added)(7) Friends University is a Quaker University. The very affluent Olive Garvey of Wichita, and mother of Willard Garvey, contributed financially to Friends University.
Kansas did, indeed, restructure its educational and social services using McCune’s blueprints for Kansas education. The Catholic schools in the Diocese of Wichita became part of this state educational restructuring by a decision of the Catholic Superintendent and Associate Superintendent of Schools in Wichita. Concerned Catholics, after unsuccessful attempts to deal with these diocesan officials, sought canonical relief to rid their schools of this destructive form of education. This tells us how dangerous this restructuring to the character of Catholic schools of Wichita must have been. What is now present is Catholic schools in Kansas?
The Archdiocese of Kansas City follows the Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative based on Common Core. The Diocese of Wichita made the following statement: “…We believe that the advantages of being State Accredited are many and we plan to stay accredited until such time the negatives outweigh the positives…”(6) Isn’t this interesting in light of the Diocese of Wichita adopting the Effective school restructuring program of Shirley McCune’s in the late 80’s or early 90’s?
Further, with regard to Catholic education in Wichita, the following activities took place in or around the time of the Wichita Kansas Governor’s Summit. "Myrliss Hershey, of Friends University, [Wichita] Kansas, has conducted Inservice Workshops for teachers at the Ingalls School in Wichita. Ingalls School is a global education center in Wichita. Catholic teachers are sent to Ingalls to be trained as global educators."(Emphasis added)(7) Friends University is a Quaker University. The very affluent Olive Garvey of Wichita, and mother of Willard Garvey, contributed financially to Friends University.
Kansas did, indeed, restructure its educational and social services using McCune’s blueprints for Kansas education. The Catholic schools in the Diocese of Wichita became part of this state educational restructuring by a decision of the Catholic Superintendent and Associate Superintendent of Schools in Wichita. Concerned Catholics, after unsuccessful attempts to deal with these diocesan officials, sought canonical relief to rid their schools of this destructive form of education. This tells us how dangerous this restructuring to the character of Catholic schools of Wichita must have been. What is now present is Catholic schools in Kansas?
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Closed Charter Schools Between 2001-2013
This List Does Not Include Charter Schools Which Never Opened
but Received Start-Up Tax Dollars
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PARENTS BEWARE: Some Charter schools are stating they are a "Classical" education schools when in fact they are still using curriculum that is aligned to the Common Core Standards. This is NOT Classical education. Be sure you check on what curriculum the school is using before placing your child. The same applies to Home School curriculum's. Not all Home School programs have kept their previous curriculum's but have aligned with the CCSS. I have 3 listed on the main page of which I know are NOT following the CCSS.
Understand parents I am not saying all Charter schools are bad, but most under the financial burden of Charter School Management companies and grants from the Federal government have not and are not surviving - leaving a long trail of financial debt behind them. There are a few things to think about when considering sending your child to a Charter school:
1. There are only 2 real differences between traditional public schools and Charter schools:
A. Unelected school boards and there is no control if parents want to remove them in Charter Schools.
B. Most are run by Management Companies which drains funds that should be used for your child.
2. If traditional public schools are so bad, why are they being allowed to remain open? They certainly are not perfect, but it is Charter schools which are being closed, not traditional public schools.
3. If the idea of Charter schools is so great, then why the "lenient" legislation surrounding their operation?
4. To remember - even sending your child to a Charter School it is still:
A. A public school under the same basic rules and regulations as the school you removed your child from.
B. Required to still be aligned with the Common Core Standards, testing and graduation requirements.
C. It also does not mean you are getting any better teachers or if their backgrounds have been checked.
1. There are only 2 real differences between traditional public schools and Charter schools:
A. Unelected school boards and there is no control if parents want to remove them in Charter Schools.
B. Most are run by Management Companies which drains funds that should be used for your child.
2. If traditional public schools are so bad, why are they being allowed to remain open? They certainly are not perfect, but it is Charter schools which are being closed, not traditional public schools.
3. If the idea of Charter schools is so great, then why the "lenient" legislation surrounding their operation?
4. To remember - even sending your child to a Charter School it is still:
A. A public school under the same basic rules and regulations as the school you removed your child from.
B. Required to still be aligned with the Common Core Standards, testing and graduation requirements.
C. It also does not mean you are getting any better teachers or if their backgrounds have been checked.
ESSA In Regard to Charter Schools, Their Implementation and Funding!
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The True Goal of School Choice!
by Charlotte Iserbyt Who and what groups are supporting the unconstitutional school choice agenda?
It is important for Mainers, and all Americans, for that matter, to ask the following question:
How is it possible for the following individuals and groups, who traditionally have been at odds, to all support school choice/virtual charter schools?
Arne Duncan, Obama's leftist Secretary of Education,
Edwin Feulner, President, Heritage Foundation and other neoconservative leaders,
The globalist (world government supporting) Council on Foreign Relations
The above support leaves most traditional (Goldwater) conservatives shaking their heads.
The end result of what Maine’s Governor Paul LePage and his Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen (and others in similar positions in ALL states) are doing will be the destruction of not only our formerly (pre-1965) excellent public education system, but, more importantly, the destruction of private education as well since once an education institution, be it public, private, home school, Christian, or charter school, accepts one penny of tax money from the federal, state, or local level, it MUST abide by ALL federal regulations and MUST take the federal test which means it must TEACH TO THE TEST which is 50% attitudinal (politically correct). THIS EQUALS TOTAL GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE CONTROL OF YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION.
A top change agent with the NEA made NEA’s plan, and that of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the neoconservative organizations, very clear in an article in Educational Leadership, in 1994. The following quote is taken from “the deliberate dumbing down of America,” page 321:
“TO OBE OR NOT TO OBE?” WAS THE QUESTION POSED BY MARJORIE LEDELL, ASSOCIATE of William Spady’s in his High Success Network, in her article for Educational Leadership’s January 1994 issue. From page 18 we read:
"Finally, raise the real issue and depend on democracy. Don’t let “to OBE [outcomes based education, ed] or Not to OBE” or “to implement or not implement efforts to improve student learning” cloud the overdue national debate about whether public education should exist or be replaced with publicly funded private education."
What Ledell is recommending (publicly funded, tax funded PRIVATE education) is being recommended by LePage and Bowen at the direction of the Obama Administration, the Heritage Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations. This is happening all over the country since the above agenda belongs to the National Governors Association (NGA), and the Governors take their orders from the NGA. Same for the state affiliates of the Heritage Foundation which take their orders from Heritage in Washington, D.C.
This NEA, NGA, CFR, Heritage Foundation plan, unfortunately being accepted and promoted by many well-meaning conservatives and Tea Party groups (not all, thank goodness...many are withdrawing their support when they get the information I am providing in this email) spells not only the end of private education, but, of utmost importance, and please read this over and over:
THE END OF OUR FREE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND OUR REPRESENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
The goal of school choice, unbeknownst to many, is and has always been the opposite of what we are told. The goal is the takeover of the public and private school sectors through partnerships with the corporate sector in order to implement socialist work force training, formerly found only in communist countries. Carnegie Corporation, in its little blue book entitled "Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies", 1934, called for using the schools to change our nation's free market economy to a planned economy. Click here and type "Conclusions" into the search engine in order to read this little book.
Carnegie's "planned economy" is going in right now through public/private partnerships (school to work) and school choice/charter school proposals being recommended by the aforementioned groups. This is happening at the same time our representative republic with its elective form of government is being undermined through acceptance of tax-supported charter schools which have NO elected school boards (no accountability to the taxpayers). This is known as taxation without representation. When and if Americans accept unelected councils to run one of the largest economic sectors of our economy (publicly-funded charter schools) what is to keep them from accepting the unelected Soviet council form of government across the board?
Interestingly enough, and hard to accept, is the fact that none of this “planned” change in our economic system and form of government would have been tolerated had the building blocks not been put in place by prominent so-called “conservative” Republicans: President Ronald Reagan and Edward Feulner, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative group in the nation. The following quote from an article in the May 14, 1984 issue of The Washington Post entitled “Industrial Policy Urged for GOP” sheds some light on behind-the-scenes activities which have led to acceptance of school choice and corporate-fascist workforce training necessary for a planned economy:
From “the deliberate dumbing down of America”, pp. 299-300: “A conservative study group founded by supporters of President Reagan is about to issue a report that advocates Republicans shed some of their deep-rooted antipathy to a planned economy. The “Industrial Policy Debate” is to be issued today by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a think tank founded by Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and other Reagan supporters.
As Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1981-1983, I served as liaison to the President’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives. The following information is taken from “the deliberate dumbing down of America,” 1999, pp. 175-176.
“EARLY IN 1981 THE PRESIDENT’S TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES WAS INstalled at 734 Jackson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. Membership listed on The White House letterhead read like a “Who’s Who” of individuals in government agencies, universities, tax-exempt foundations, non-governmental organizations, business, media, labor unions, and religion. The names of some individuals on the task force follow: William Aramony, president, United Way; William J. Baroody, Jr., president, American Enterprise Institute; Helen G. Boosalis, mayor, City of Lincoln, Nebraska; Terence Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York; Governor Pierre S. Dupont, Delaware; Senator David Durenberger; Luis A. Ferre, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Gardner, chairman, Independent Sector; Edward Hill, pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church; Michael S. Joyce, executive director, John M. Olin Foundation; Edward H. Kiernan, president, International Association of Police; Arthur Levitt, Jr., chairman, American Stock Exchange; Richard W. Lyman, president, Rockefeller Foundation; Elder Thomas S. Monson, The MormonChurch; William C. Norris, chairman and CEO, Control Data Corporation; George Romney, chairman, National Center for Citizen Involvement; C. William Verity, Jr., chairman, Armco Steel, Inc.; Jeri J. Winger, first vice president, General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Thomas H. Wyman, president, CBS, Inc.; and William S. White, president, C.S. Mott Foundation.
This totally new and un-American concept of partnerships between the public and private sector has been readily accepted by our elected officials who ignore its roots in socialism and its implications for the discontinuation of our representative form of government and accountability to the taxpayers. Under the “partnership” process, determining responsibility when something goes wrong is like pinning jello to the wall.
Such a change in government, if presented in clear language to citizens at the polls, would be rejected. However, when implemented gradually, using the Marxist-Hegelian Dialectic, citizens don’t even notice what is happening. The shift is away from elected representatives. In time, after voters have become even more disenchanted with the candidates and election results, fewer and fewer citizens will vote. At that point a highly-respected member of the public will enter the picture to propose a solution to the problem: some sort of compromise toward parliamentary form of government found in socialist democracies which will be acceptable to Americans unfamiliar with the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
One says to oneself, confidently, “This will never happen.” Look around you. What do you see? Site-based management in your local schools, transferring decision-making, traditionally exercised by elected school boards, to politically correct appointees and the creation of unelected task forces at all government levels; proposals to “separate school and state” which make no mention of governmental and social structure consequences—efforts to have government money (taxes) pay for services delivered by private religious or home schools, etc., with no public representation. There can be no accountability to the taxpayers under a system so alien to the United States’ form of representative government.
How clean, neat and tidy. Wholesale destruction of an entire, wonderful system of government without firing a shot.
As a U.S. Department of Education liaison with The White House during the early days of this initiative this writer inquired of one of President Reagan’s political appointees whether this initiative was not corporate fascism; a politically incorrect question that resulted in someone else replacing me as Liaison with The White House.”
Doesn’t the above agenda, set in 1981, sound exactly like what is being carved in stone as I write? Even I, who saw and experienced all that happened 31 years ago, am a bit in shock, realizing that what I saw and wrote about is actually being carried out exactly as planned.
Heritage Foundation’s role in the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the resultant loss of hundreds of thousands of American jobs (high unemployment) has caused the American people to accept any solution to their economic problems, even acceptance of the Carnegie Corporation’s planned economy and the transformation of our schools from academics to the Soviet workforce training system. What is happening represents an exquisite example of the use of the Hegelian dialectic: create the problem, people scream, impose the solution they would never have accepted had the problem not been deliberately created in the first place. Please read from “the deliberate dumbing down of america”, 1999, pp. 303-304:
THE 1993 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C., DEDIcated to their twentieth year celebration, revealed the following:
The idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) originated with Heritage Fellow Richard Allen and has long been advocated by Heritage policy analysts.... The idea of creating a North American free trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan was first proposed by Heritage Distinguished Fellow Richard Allen in the late 1970s, refined by then Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, and further developed in a major 1986 Heritage Foundation study. (p. 4)
[Ed. Note: The Free Trade Agreement got the ball rolling for the development of skills standards by the newly formed National Skills Standards Board, endorsed by the U.S. Labor Department Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) study originated under Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, and eventually led to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the dumbing down of American education curriculum for workforce training. With all of this emphasis on “standards” it should be pointed out that NAFTA allows exchanges of all categories of professionals, with those coming from Mexico and Canada having met their own countries’ standards, not necessarily equal to those required in the United States. If this process evolves the way most of these exchange processes have in the past, that disparity will be addressed in one of two ways—by changing U.S. standards to match foreign standards, or by altering both NAFTA nations’ standards to align with international standards like ISO 9000 or ISO 1400]
If we, in the year 2012, accept the NEA, NGA, Heritage Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Obama Administration school choice proposals being presented to us as a solution to the “deliberate” dumbing down of America (the Hegelian dialectic at work), we taxpayers will be funding the demise of academic education. We will also be funding the operation of profit-oriented corporations, not our local schools.
The ultimate goal for those who wish to put us into a collectivized regional government system under the UN will take place due to acceptance of this corporate fascist agenda. I hope the reader of this article will read and distribute the following three articles which discuss the use of our tax money to train our children as robots to spin off profits for the global economy:
1- How On-Line Learning Companies Bought America's Schools
2- Special Report: The ProfitMotive Behind Virtual Schools in Maine
3- Charlotte Iserbyt: Education Restructuring for Global Economy
And, unlike in the past. when we had locally elected school boards to which we could register our complaints, there will be nowhere to go to complain since charter schools are run by unelected councils. Unelected council form of government is, by the way, the Soviet council form of government.
Note: The writer understands well the disillusion being experienced by people reading this article since she, herself, went through the same disillusion after joining the Reagan Administration in 1981. As a loyal Reagan supporter I refused to read “Here’s the Rest of Him”, by Kent Steffgen, sent to me by United Republicans of California. Steffgen’s well-documented book exposed the “real” Ronald Reagan. In fact I was infuriated that any individual or group of conservatives would write such a “libelous” book about someone I respected and had worked so hard to get elected. I put the book in my bookcase and took off for Washington to work as a Reagan political appointee in the U.S. Dept. of Education. It didn’t take me long to recognize that my trust had been misplaced; that President Reagan was not what or who I had been lead to believe he was. One particular federally funded grant emanating from my office, which called for “controlling and manipulating the locals” shocked me into action. “the deliberate dumbing down of america” pp. 170-171 states:
ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGY (AECT—A SPIN-OFF OF the National Education Association) received an $855,282 federal contract for “Project BEST” (Better Education Skills through Technology) in 1981. An explanatory brochure states:
WHAT IS PROJECT BEST? Project BEST is a cooperative effort involving both the federal, state, and local government and the private sector in the planning and use of modern information technologies to improve the effectiveness of basic skills, teaching and learning. On a sheet circulated within the U.S. Department of Education as an internal document entitled “Project BEST Dissemination Design Considerations,” there appeared the following information:
“PROJECT DESIGN FEATURES
What We Can Control or Manipulate?
State participation/selection process
Role of advisors
Content of program
Training of state leaders
Resource people utilized
Basic skills content areas emphasized
Perception of need to use technology”
BEST’s promotional flyer blatantly discussed how the project would serve not just in education, but for other program areas as well, to implement the national/international management system (MBO, PPBS, TQM):
“In addition, the State Team approach and the communications network with professional associations and other groups established by the project will serve as a model for the states in implementing similar efforts in other areas of education, or in such program areas as health, human services, housing, transportation, etc.”
Doesn’t the above plan sound like totalitarian socialism/fascism/communism?
As a former school board member I was shocked, especially by the call for “control and manipulation” at the state and local level. I leaked the document to Human Events which published it, and was subsequently fired for doing so. (As if the U.S. Department of Education is the equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency or the U.S. Department of Defense which necessarily has to classify its documents (to keep them from the public eye)!
Upon returning home I pulled the book “Here’s the Rest of Him,” available from my library, and read it start to finish. It tells the whole unsavory story about Governor Reagan; it tells a story I did not want to read. It says bad things about someone I had been conditioned to believe was the solution to our nation’s problems.
So, you see, don’t feel too badly about having been “had.” We, who are trying to warn the rest of you, have been “had” as well. The road to the truth is uphill, by foot, and seldom pleasant.
Please allow the last chapter of our nation’s history to be written by “us,” not “them.”
It is important for Mainers, and all Americans, for that matter, to ask the following question:
How is it possible for the following individuals and groups, who traditionally have been at odds, to all support school choice/virtual charter schools?
Arne Duncan, Obama's leftist Secretary of Education,
Edwin Feulner, President, Heritage Foundation and other neoconservative leaders,
The globalist (world government supporting) Council on Foreign Relations
The above support leaves most traditional (Goldwater) conservatives shaking their heads.
The end result of what Maine’s Governor Paul LePage and his Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen (and others in similar positions in ALL states) are doing will be the destruction of not only our formerly (pre-1965) excellent public education system, but, more importantly, the destruction of private education as well since once an education institution, be it public, private, home school, Christian, or charter school, accepts one penny of tax money from the federal, state, or local level, it MUST abide by ALL federal regulations and MUST take the federal test which means it must TEACH TO THE TEST which is 50% attitudinal (politically correct). THIS EQUALS TOTAL GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE CONTROL OF YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION.
A top change agent with the NEA made NEA’s plan, and that of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the neoconservative organizations, very clear in an article in Educational Leadership, in 1994. The following quote is taken from “the deliberate dumbing down of America,” page 321:
“TO OBE OR NOT TO OBE?” WAS THE QUESTION POSED BY MARJORIE LEDELL, ASSOCIATE of William Spady’s in his High Success Network, in her article for Educational Leadership’s January 1994 issue. From page 18 we read:
"Finally, raise the real issue and depend on democracy. Don’t let “to OBE [outcomes based education, ed] or Not to OBE” or “to implement or not implement efforts to improve student learning” cloud the overdue national debate about whether public education should exist or be replaced with publicly funded private education."
What Ledell is recommending (publicly funded, tax funded PRIVATE education) is being recommended by LePage and Bowen at the direction of the Obama Administration, the Heritage Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations. This is happening all over the country since the above agenda belongs to the National Governors Association (NGA), and the Governors take their orders from the NGA. Same for the state affiliates of the Heritage Foundation which take their orders from Heritage in Washington, D.C.
This NEA, NGA, CFR, Heritage Foundation plan, unfortunately being accepted and promoted by many well-meaning conservatives and Tea Party groups (not all, thank goodness...many are withdrawing their support when they get the information I am providing in this email) spells not only the end of private education, but, of utmost importance, and please read this over and over:
THE END OF OUR FREE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND OUR REPRESENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
The goal of school choice, unbeknownst to many, is and has always been the opposite of what we are told. The goal is the takeover of the public and private school sectors through partnerships with the corporate sector in order to implement socialist work force training, formerly found only in communist countries. Carnegie Corporation, in its little blue book entitled "Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies", 1934, called for using the schools to change our nation's free market economy to a planned economy. Click here and type "Conclusions" into the search engine in order to read this little book.
Carnegie's "planned economy" is going in right now through public/private partnerships (school to work) and school choice/charter school proposals being recommended by the aforementioned groups. This is happening at the same time our representative republic with its elective form of government is being undermined through acceptance of tax-supported charter schools which have NO elected school boards (no accountability to the taxpayers). This is known as taxation without representation. When and if Americans accept unelected councils to run one of the largest economic sectors of our economy (publicly-funded charter schools) what is to keep them from accepting the unelected Soviet council form of government across the board?
Interestingly enough, and hard to accept, is the fact that none of this “planned” change in our economic system and form of government would have been tolerated had the building blocks not been put in place by prominent so-called “conservative” Republicans: President Ronald Reagan and Edward Feulner, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative group in the nation. The following quote from an article in the May 14, 1984 issue of The Washington Post entitled “Industrial Policy Urged for GOP” sheds some light on behind-the-scenes activities which have led to acceptance of school choice and corporate-fascist workforce training necessary for a planned economy:
From “the deliberate dumbing down of America”, pp. 299-300: “A conservative study group founded by supporters of President Reagan is about to issue a report that advocates Republicans shed some of their deep-rooted antipathy to a planned economy. The “Industrial Policy Debate” is to be issued today by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a think tank founded by Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and other Reagan supporters.
As Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1981-1983, I served as liaison to the President’s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives. The following information is taken from “the deliberate dumbing down of America,” 1999, pp. 175-176.
“EARLY IN 1981 THE PRESIDENT’S TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES WAS INstalled at 734 Jackson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. Membership listed on The White House letterhead read like a “Who’s Who” of individuals in government agencies, universities, tax-exempt foundations, non-governmental organizations, business, media, labor unions, and religion. The names of some individuals on the task force follow: William Aramony, president, United Way; William J. Baroody, Jr., president, American Enterprise Institute; Helen G. Boosalis, mayor, City of Lincoln, Nebraska; Terence Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York; Governor Pierre S. Dupont, Delaware; Senator David Durenberger; Luis A. Ferre, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Gardner, chairman, Independent Sector; Edward Hill, pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church; Michael S. Joyce, executive director, John M. Olin Foundation; Edward H. Kiernan, president, International Association of Police; Arthur Levitt, Jr., chairman, American Stock Exchange; Richard W. Lyman, president, Rockefeller Foundation; Elder Thomas S. Monson, The MormonChurch; William C. Norris, chairman and CEO, Control Data Corporation; George Romney, chairman, National Center for Citizen Involvement; C. William Verity, Jr., chairman, Armco Steel, Inc.; Jeri J. Winger, first vice president, General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Thomas H. Wyman, president, CBS, Inc.; and William S. White, president, C.S. Mott Foundation.
This totally new and un-American concept of partnerships between the public and private sector has been readily accepted by our elected officials who ignore its roots in socialism and its implications for the discontinuation of our representative form of government and accountability to the taxpayers. Under the “partnership” process, determining responsibility when something goes wrong is like pinning jello to the wall.
Such a change in government, if presented in clear language to citizens at the polls, would be rejected. However, when implemented gradually, using the Marxist-Hegelian Dialectic, citizens don’t even notice what is happening. The shift is away from elected representatives. In time, after voters have become even more disenchanted with the candidates and election results, fewer and fewer citizens will vote. At that point a highly-respected member of the public will enter the picture to propose a solution to the problem: some sort of compromise toward parliamentary form of government found in socialist democracies which will be acceptable to Americans unfamiliar with the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
One says to oneself, confidently, “This will never happen.” Look around you. What do you see? Site-based management in your local schools, transferring decision-making, traditionally exercised by elected school boards, to politically correct appointees and the creation of unelected task forces at all government levels; proposals to “separate school and state” which make no mention of governmental and social structure consequences—efforts to have government money (taxes) pay for services delivered by private religious or home schools, etc., with no public representation. There can be no accountability to the taxpayers under a system so alien to the United States’ form of representative government.
How clean, neat and tidy. Wholesale destruction of an entire, wonderful system of government without firing a shot.
As a U.S. Department of Education liaison with The White House during the early days of this initiative this writer inquired of one of President Reagan’s political appointees whether this initiative was not corporate fascism; a politically incorrect question that resulted in someone else replacing me as Liaison with The White House.”
Doesn’t the above agenda, set in 1981, sound exactly like what is being carved in stone as I write? Even I, who saw and experienced all that happened 31 years ago, am a bit in shock, realizing that what I saw and wrote about is actually being carried out exactly as planned.
Heritage Foundation’s role in the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the resultant loss of hundreds of thousands of American jobs (high unemployment) has caused the American people to accept any solution to their economic problems, even acceptance of the Carnegie Corporation’s planned economy and the transformation of our schools from academics to the Soviet workforce training system. What is happening represents an exquisite example of the use of the Hegelian dialectic: create the problem, people scream, impose the solution they would never have accepted had the problem not been deliberately created in the first place. Please read from “the deliberate dumbing down of america”, 1999, pp. 303-304:
THE 1993 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C., DEDIcated to their twentieth year celebration, revealed the following:
The idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) originated with Heritage Fellow Richard Allen and has long been advocated by Heritage policy analysts.... The idea of creating a North American free trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan was first proposed by Heritage Distinguished Fellow Richard Allen in the late 1970s, refined by then Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, and further developed in a major 1986 Heritage Foundation study. (p. 4)
[Ed. Note: The Free Trade Agreement got the ball rolling for the development of skills standards by the newly formed National Skills Standards Board, endorsed by the U.S. Labor Department Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) study originated under Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, and eventually led to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the dumbing down of American education curriculum for workforce training. With all of this emphasis on “standards” it should be pointed out that NAFTA allows exchanges of all categories of professionals, with those coming from Mexico and Canada having met their own countries’ standards, not necessarily equal to those required in the United States. If this process evolves the way most of these exchange processes have in the past, that disparity will be addressed in one of two ways—by changing U.S. standards to match foreign standards, or by altering both NAFTA nations’ standards to align with international standards like ISO 9000 or ISO 1400]
If we, in the year 2012, accept the NEA, NGA, Heritage Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Obama Administration school choice proposals being presented to us as a solution to the “deliberate” dumbing down of America (the Hegelian dialectic at work), we taxpayers will be funding the demise of academic education. We will also be funding the operation of profit-oriented corporations, not our local schools.
The ultimate goal for those who wish to put us into a collectivized regional government system under the UN will take place due to acceptance of this corporate fascist agenda. I hope the reader of this article will read and distribute the following three articles which discuss the use of our tax money to train our children as robots to spin off profits for the global economy:
1- How On-Line Learning Companies Bought America's Schools
2- Special Report: The ProfitMotive Behind Virtual Schools in Maine
3- Charlotte Iserbyt: Education Restructuring for Global Economy
And, unlike in the past. when we had locally elected school boards to which we could register our complaints, there will be nowhere to go to complain since charter schools are run by unelected councils. Unelected council form of government is, by the way, the Soviet council form of government.
Note: The writer understands well the disillusion being experienced by people reading this article since she, herself, went through the same disillusion after joining the Reagan Administration in 1981. As a loyal Reagan supporter I refused to read “Here’s the Rest of Him”, by Kent Steffgen, sent to me by United Republicans of California. Steffgen’s well-documented book exposed the “real” Ronald Reagan. In fact I was infuriated that any individual or group of conservatives would write such a “libelous” book about someone I respected and had worked so hard to get elected. I put the book in my bookcase and took off for Washington to work as a Reagan political appointee in the U.S. Dept. of Education. It didn’t take me long to recognize that my trust had been misplaced; that President Reagan was not what or who I had been lead to believe he was. One particular federally funded grant emanating from my office, which called for “controlling and manipulating the locals” shocked me into action. “the deliberate dumbing down of america” pp. 170-171 states:
ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGY (AECT—A SPIN-OFF OF the National Education Association) received an $855,282 federal contract for “Project BEST” (Better Education Skills through Technology) in 1981. An explanatory brochure states:
WHAT IS PROJECT BEST? Project BEST is a cooperative effort involving both the federal, state, and local government and the private sector in the planning and use of modern information technologies to improve the effectiveness of basic skills, teaching and learning. On a sheet circulated within the U.S. Department of Education as an internal document entitled “Project BEST Dissemination Design Considerations,” there appeared the following information:
“PROJECT DESIGN FEATURES
What We Can Control or Manipulate?
State participation/selection process
Role of advisors
Content of program
Training of state leaders
Resource people utilized
Basic skills content areas emphasized
Perception of need to use technology”
BEST’s promotional flyer blatantly discussed how the project would serve not just in education, but for other program areas as well, to implement the national/international management system (MBO, PPBS, TQM):
“In addition, the State Team approach and the communications network with professional associations and other groups established by the project will serve as a model for the states in implementing similar efforts in other areas of education, or in such program areas as health, human services, housing, transportation, etc.”
Doesn’t the above plan sound like totalitarian socialism/fascism/communism?
As a former school board member I was shocked, especially by the call for “control and manipulation” at the state and local level. I leaked the document to Human Events which published it, and was subsequently fired for doing so. (As if the U.S. Department of Education is the equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency or the U.S. Department of Defense which necessarily has to classify its documents (to keep them from the public eye)!
Upon returning home I pulled the book “Here’s the Rest of Him,” available from my library, and read it start to finish. It tells the whole unsavory story about Governor Reagan; it tells a story I did not want to read. It says bad things about someone I had been conditioned to believe was the solution to our nation’s problems.
So, you see, don’t feel too badly about having been “had.” We, who are trying to warn the rest of you, have been “had” as well. The road to the truth is uphill, by foot, and seldom pleasant.
Please allow the last chapter of our nation’s history to be written by “us,” not “them.”
