Please call your Congressman/Congresswoman and federal Senators to stop the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA – S 1177) in the Senate and the Student Success Act (SSA – HR 5) in the House. These are updates of the No Child Left Behind Act. Federal moneys to the states started with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, begun—unconstitutionally—by Lyndon Johnson in 1965. The Tenth amendment states that the powers not delegated by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Control of Education is one of those powers not delegated to the federal government.

Read the alert notice from our friends at Education Liberty Watch here.

It would be better if the ESEA were left to expire and control of education was returned to the states.

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 […]

The federal law “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) required that ALL children must be proficient in math and language arts by 2014. It was a noble goal, but it was unrealistically naive. Now states want relief…..

Whether or not to use the state assessment as a graduation requirement is a state decision. It is not required by the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The 2001 education law, “No Child Left Behind” creates even more mischief than Goals 2000! This commentary deals with its effect on private schools and homeschoolers.