For you homeschoolers, Tina Hollenbeck has done excellent work in compiling a list of curriculum providers which are remaining independent from the Common Core State Standards. The purpose of the list is for parents’ information, not to pass any judgment upon one curriculum or another, and it is posted on the Educational Freedom Coalition website. See the list.

Those posting the list at this website are not making judgments…..but I will. I recommend avoiding curricula which aligns with the Common Core State Standards; however, I also recommend evaluating any curricula carefully since they may be deficient for some other reason(s).

Pull quotes:

“Consider the recent history of high stakes testing in the state of Washington. We spent more than a decade and a billion dollars on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) only to find that the test was deeply flawed…..”

“The truth is that as long as we try to force every kid through a one size fits all system we will never see improvement. No other country in the world is running an education system on the pretense that all students are the same and as long as we pursue that folly we will continue to waste precious resources and fall further behind our competitors.”

Read the commentary by Bob Dean

In September of 2011, as the Common Core State Standards were being completed, Senator Marco Rubio wrote a letter asking Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to justify his program, since there were at least three laws stating that such a program was illegal. Read Senator Rubio’s letter. In the letter he cites three laws that […]

Senator Marco Rubio, in his letter to Secretary Arne Duncan, cites the General Education Provisions Act as one of the laws prohibiting a national curriculum. That prohibition, along with other directives, are in the citation which states: “No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of […]

As we have stated before, education is not an enumerated power of the federal government under the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 8. It is a power delegated to the States respectively, or to the people as stated in the 10th Amendment. Nevertheless, we have numerous federal education laws. We are somewhat fortunate in that […]

Education is not an enumerated power of the Federal Government under Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, and powers not delegated to the federal government belong the the States respectively, or to the people, as stated in the 10th amendment. Nevertheless, federal funding was first given to the states in 1965 under President […]

The Gulen schools use US taxpayer money, yet bring in Turkish teachers from Turkey to replace American teachers, and also have construction work done, not by local contractors but by workers brought in from Turkey.

The recently passed Washington State Charter Schools Initiative creates the potential for foreign owned charter schools. See how this can happen.

“Anytime you’ve got a one size fits all attitude regarding education, it’s never good for the students, the parents, or education in general,..”

Have you been hearing about the “Common Core State Standards”? Here is a video which explains the frightening concept and which explains that this is just one component of a larger agenda. The speaker, Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project, begins the explanation with the Race to the Top program, but the roots of transformation of education began decades ago. A significant year was 1965 when federal moneys were first given to states bringing federal mandates to local districts, and another critical year was 1994 when Goals 2000 and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act were passed. President Obama’s Race to the Top program is the most recent step in the destruction of American education. Local control has been systematically destroyed. Please watch all five parts of this video.