By Alice Linahan | 10.16.2015
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had to write this post after a question was asked on Facebook questioning Ted Cruz regarding S. 306, which is a Choice, Title I Portability, Education Savings Account, 529 Plan all rolled into one. In addition, S 306 makes every HOMESCHOOL in the Country A PRIVATE SCHOOLAs a reminder: I have said it before and will say it again, “School Choice” is the Carrot to Control. As my friend Michael Bohr correctly states…
“Parents, who are the first and forever educators of their children, are the only people who hold the right to determine ‘the best interests of their child.’ Everyone one else has an agenda that puts their best interests over those of the child and they have done so by taking control of our government. Their hope is that we continue to fight the false battles they lay down before us and forget that we, the parents, are the sole authority in determining the education and upbringing of our children.”
Did you know that Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) is closely aligned with the Brookings Institute which is closely aligned with the United Nations? As seen when Alexander delivered their key note address in Feb. 2015. In a summary of his talk it is clear, Lamar Alexander is clearly aligned with the Obama/Duncan push for Charter schools.
School districts across America are transitioning from the traditional model of assigning students to a school based on their residential address to a system that allows families a choice of schools. Depending on the district, families can choose public charter schools, affordable private schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, and regular public schools in which enrollment is based on parental preference rather than zip code. Districts differ in which of these options is available, the ease with which parents can exercise the choices available to them, and the degree to which the choice system results in greater access to quality schools.
In order to shine light on those distinctions, the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings released an annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is progressing in the nation’s largest school districts. The fourth iteration of the ECCI was released today at an event featuring a keynote address from Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn).
While parents across the country are becoming more and more concerned with the issue of the Federal Government monitoring, tracking and collecting data on our children, it is very alarming to learn that Brookings also has a Center for Universal Education that partners with UNESCO for the UN education agenda where there is a focus on “Global Tracking” and the need to support development of more robust systems for assessing learning outcomes. “School Choice” is the mother of all public/private partnerships that will be the demise of education in America.
UN (United Nations) documents say explicitly that “School Choice” is the means to get their “change the child” model into all schools because with public money comes public accountability. The discussion starts on page 86 but the money words are on page 91 and then on page 92 it goes into Human Capital, which connects to the WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act) passed by the US Congress, July, 2014, and all its tentacles. Interestingly, no one seems to want to talk about WIOA. Except for Moms and Dad’s doing the research who do not see our children at “Human Capital” for the Government.
While we know that Senators Cruz, Lee, and Crapo voted NO for Every Child Achieves Act /Alexander’s Reauthorization of ESEA. It appears that Sen. Cruz, Sen. Lee, and Sen. Crapo, were moving in the wrong direction with S. 306. I would like to personally remind all three Senators that a National Grassroots Coalition Says NO to ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Reauthorization and they must come out publicly against the Re-Authorization of ESEA right away.
WHY?
As my friend Anita Hoge has pointed out… This is what S 306 is proposing: Title I Portability will be offered to ALL CHILDREN in public and private schools. The criteria will be “per pupil expenditures” legalized as funding that would “follow the child.” They changed the definition of Homeschool to a private school, so that all students in public and private school come under the umbrella of Title I. All children identified for Title I funding will come under the net of ESEA. Therefore, all children can receive Title I per pupil expenditures to go to the school of their choice.
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