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Common Core
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The philosophy of the classroom today, will be the philosophy of the government tomorrow.
Abraham Lincoln
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Background
Achieve, Inc.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Tides Foundation
National Governors Association (NGA)
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What about Curriculum? Pa has adopted the minimum CCSS standards to obtain the $$ and waiver from NCLB Math is being implemented first: 2013-2014 school year Literature is being implemented second: 2014-2015 school year
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Why not? The claims for a more rigorous program sound great!
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Algebra I being moved from 8th to 9th grade Students who want to pursue engineering and technical degrees in college will need private tutors to track into Calculus senior year Many schools in Pa already eliminating advanced math; FRSD will follow suit with its goal of having less than 10% of all middle school students taking Algebra I by the 8th grade.
See appendix for specific math sequence suggested for FRSD.
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Question: During the school day, isnt roughly 90% of the day non -fiction with classes like math, computers, civics, history and science?
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RTTT $
Actual Cost
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ANYONE IN EDUCATION EG: prisons EG: DHS
Tracks data from PreK-age 20 Office of Education Technology of the US Department of Education has approved use of MRIs in the classroom and will put the equipment in the schools to analyze brain activity.
2. Promoting Grit, Tenacity, & Perseverance: Critical Factors in the 21st Century,
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1. http://ceds.ed.gov
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Taxpayer 76%
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Publishing companies, tech companies and testing companies have $ billions to gain. Pearson (British publishing company) has purchased all of the major educational textbook companies in the United States. Glencoe, McGraw Hill, Holt and all majors now belong to Pearson who embrace Common Core. Gates has $ billions to gain in technology upgrades Gates has made contributions to every entity that could possibly object to Common Core. He has given money to organizations like the Pennsylvania Business Council and PTO/PTAs to promote Common Core Leftist radicals can push their agendas into the earliest years of our children and teach their ideas as truth thus changing an entire culture Global warming taught in EVERY discipline including literature, social studies, math, science & technology. Samantha Power book A Problem from Hell; America & the Genocide IN FRSD CURRICULUM FR social studies workbook on Constitution stating the founding fathers were all white male landowners how could they represent more than half the population that wasnt white male? The founding fathers probably couldnt imagine seeking the input of these (minority) groups. It goes on to question students what the Constitution would look like if it was fair and wasn't created by white men (McGraw Hill p. 42) The way to phase out alternative education (private, Christian, cyber, magnet and home schooling) Gates now has a subsidiary that is in position to take over magnet and charter schools that fail the Common Core assessments (That is in the RTTT grant- if a magnet or charter school does not pass the Common Core assessments they will be taken over) Making our children homogenous worker bees; churning out workers for big corporations Case example: German family seeking asylum to home school: our future
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Consortium of states must agree to let your state leave US Department of Education must approve
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School Board Superintendent City Council Teachers Union Gov. Corbett PDE Parents/PTAs & PTOs Community Legislators
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Appendix
Common Core Fast Fact Sheet Common Core Facts for Parents Longitudinal Data System OPT OUT of Common Core form List of legislation & official documents References
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The program provides grants to states to design, develop, and implement statewide P-20 longitudinal data systems to capture, analyze, and use student data from preschool to high school, college, and the workforce.
Program Requirements:
Since it started in fiscal year 2005, the program has awarded grants worth $265 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia. The Recovery Act competition requires that the data systems have the capacity to link preschool, K-12, and postsecondary education as well as workforce data. To receive State Fiscal Stabilization Funds, a state must provide an assurance that it will establish a longitudinal data system that includes the 12 elements described in the America COMPETES Act, and any data system developed with Statewide longitudinal data system funds must include at least 12 elements.
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The Secretary is particularly interested in applications in which the State plans to expand statewide longitudinal data systems to include or integrate data from special education programs, English language learner programs,1 early childhood programs, at-risk and dropout prevention programs, and school climate and culture programs, as well as information on student mobility, human resources (i.e., information on teachers, principals, and other staff), school finance, student health, postsecondary education, and other relevant areas, with the purpose of connecting and coordinating all parts of the system to allow important questions related to policy, practice, or overall effectiveness to be asked, answered, and incorporated into effective continuous improvement Practices.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Overview Information; Race to the Top Fund; Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.395A. T.C. Eshelman 724.331.0256 Traci.Ramey@gmail.com 29
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Resources
HTTP://CEDS.ED.GOV PROMOTING GRIT, TENACITY, & PERSEVERANCE: CRITICAL FACTORS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, FEBRUARY 2013, US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
www.truthinamericaneducation.com www.StopCommonCore.com www.rightsidenews.com/2013031632175/life-and-science/health-andeducation/marxism-in-education-the-infiltration-of-our-school-systems-bythe-common-core-standards.html http://wheresthemath.com http://pioneerinstitute.org The Road to a National Curriculum- The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers A Pioneer Institute White Paper, By Robert S. Eitel & Kent D. Talbert. February 2012. Issue #81 http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20130318/NEWS/303180181/EXCLUSIVETesting-requires-computers-some-schools-can-tafford?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1 http://www.indystar.com/article/20130319/OPINION/303190058 http://commoncorefacts.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-can-i-do.html http://www2.ed.gov 4/24/2013 T.C. Eshelman 724.331.0256 Traci.Ramey@gmail.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/13/former-
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MI Bill HB4276 changes 1976 PA 451, entitled The revised school code, by amending section 1278 (MCL 380.1278), as amended by 2004 PA 596, and by adding section 1278c. On February 19, 2013, the bill was introduced by Representatives McMillin, Hooker, McBroom, Somerville and Howrylak and referred to the Committee on Education. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1278 (MCL 380.1278) The State Board Model Core Academic
Michigan HB 4276
Curriculum content standards shall not be based upon the Common Core Standards described in Section 1278C.
AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1278C (MCL 380.1278) - (1) The State Board and the Department
shall not implement the Common Core Standards promoted by the Common Core Standards Initiative coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The State Board shall take the necessary action to rescind the State Boards adoption of those Common Core Standards, which occurred on June 15, 2010, and to discontinue any assessments aligned to those Common Core Standards. (2) After the effective date of this section, the State Board or any other state official or agency shall not participate in the Common Core State Standards initiative described in Subsection (1). (3) The State Board shall ensure that the State Board Model Core Academic Curriculum Content Standards under Section 1278 and the subject area content expectations that apply to the credit requirements of the Michigan Merit Standard under Sections 1278A and 1278 are not based upon the Common Core Standards described in Subsection (1).
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On March 21, 2013, Rep. Aaron Schock (IL) introduced the Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act, H.R. 1386. Additional original sponsors included Representatives Rodney Davis (IL), Ron Kind (WI), Patrick Meehan (PA), David Valadao (CA), Jim Gerlach (PA), Kevin Cramer (ND), and Kenny Marchant (TX). The bill enjoys the support of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) This bi-partisan bill, Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act, HR 1386, will help rein in the U.S. Department of Educations authority in the absence of federal legislation and ensure that school boards are involved during the implementation of U.S. Department of Education guidelines. H.R. 1386 recognizes the vital role and responsibilities of local school board governance and local school district decision-making in designing, developing and delivering high quality educational services for our nation's schoolchildren. This legislation also ensures that the U.S. Department of Education fulfills its role as a policy implementer rather than a policy-maker, and performs that role with proper recognition of governance
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NSBA Bill: Local School Board Governance and Flexibility Act, H.R. 1386
RNC RESOLUTION CONCERNING COMMON CORE EDUCATION STANDARDS WHEREAS, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of academic standards, promoted and supported by two private membership organizations, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a method for conforming American students to uniform (one size fits all) achievement goals to make them more competitive in a global marketplace, (1.) and WHEREAS, the NGA and the CCSSO, received tens of millions of dollars from private third parties to advocate for and develop the CCSS strategy, subsequently created the CCSS through a process that was not subject to any freedom of information acts or other sunshine laws, and never piloted the CCSS, and WHEREAS, even though Federal Law prohibits the federalizing of curriculum (2.), the Obama Administration accepted the CCSS plan and used 2009 Stimulus Bill money to reward the states that were most committed to the presidents CCSS agenda; but, they failed to give states, their legislatures and their citizens time to evaluate the CCSS before having to commit to them, and WHEREAS, the NGA and CCSSO in concert with the same corporations developing the CCSS assessments have created new textbooks, digital media and other teaching materials aligned to the standards which must be purchased and adopted by local school districts in order that students may effectively compete on CCSS assessments, and WHEREAS, the CCSS program includes federally funded testing and the collection and sharing of massive amounts of personal student and teacher data, and WHEREAS, the CCSS effectively removes educational choice and competition since all schools and all districts must use Common Core assessments based on the Common Core standards to allow all students to advance in the school system and to advance to higher education pursuits; therefore be it RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee, as stated in the 2012 Republican Party Platform, do not believe in a one size fits all approach to education and support providing broad education choices to parents and children at the State and local level, (p35)(3.), which is best based on a free market approach to education for students to achieve individual excellence; and, be it further RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee recognizes the CCSS for what it is an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children so they will conform to a preconceived normal, and, be it further RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee rejects the collection of personal student data for any non-educational purpose without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child students parent and that it rejects the sharing of such personal data, without the prior written consent of an adult student or a child students parent, with any person or entity other than schools or education agencies within the state, and be it finally RESOLVED, the 2012 Republican Party Platform specifically states the need to repeal the numerous federal regulations which interfere with State and local control of public schools, (p36) (3.); and therefore, the Republican National Committee rejects this CCSS plan which creates and fits the country with a nationwide straitjacket on academic freedom and achievement. References: 1. www.corestandards.org 2. Federal Law 20 USC 1232a-Sec. 1232a. and The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Pub.L. 89-10, 79 Stat. 27, 20 US.C. ch. 70.