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.

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.

The United Nations has declared the years 2005 to 2014 to be the decade for Education for Sustainable Development.

According to the UN Bruntland Commission: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

In reality, it is a philosophy of redistributing wealth and destroying freedom.

A graduate school professor and clinical psychologist analyzes …and criticizes…the post-modern and post-national philosophy underlying the International Baccalaureate program

Instilling International Baccalaureate values in children starts at the elementary school level. “…the anti-American teaching in the primary years program is done in a very subtle way. It’s more about the “right way to be or the “right way to do things” or the “right way to think” and a lot of it is not the American Way.”

What are Middle School teachers saying about the “Middle Years Program” of International Baccalaureate? One teacher says, “Most teachers grimly accept MYP and quietly pay lip-service to it. If you sign a contract to work in an MYP school, you have to play the game….” Read more …

“This [International Baccalaureate] seminar opened my eyes to the fact that IBO [International Baccalaureate Organization] is more ideological than educational,” says one high school teacher in Maryland. Read what this and other high school teachers are saying about IB.

School Board members across the United States are debating the wisdom of adopting the International Baccalaureate program. Read some of their comments.

The promotional brochures and parent information meetings for International Baccalaureate emphasize the good features of the program. Now read what students are saying about their negative experiences with IB.