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Expert: Obama’s ‘bogus’ student data proposal won’t fix privacy problem he created

Posted on January 17, 2015 Written by

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An edu­ca­tion ana­lyst says Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s call for stronger pro­tec­tion of stu­dent dig­i­tal data is “bogus.” The pres­i­dent ear­li­er this week pro­posed a new Stu­dent Dig­i­tal Pri­va­cy Act aimed at pre­vent­ing com­pa­nies from sell­ing sen­si­tive stu­dent infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed in schools and from using such data to tar­get adver­tis­ing to chil­dren, according […]

Filed Under: Education, Family Autonomy, New World Order, Surveillance, Technocracy

Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone

Posted on January 17, 2015 Written by

View ~2 minute Wash­ing­ton Post video HERE: Danielle and Alexan­der Meitiv let their chil­dren, 10 and six, walk home alone from a park a mile away from their house. Now, Mont­gomery Coun­ty is inves­ti­gat­ing the cou­ple for child neglect. (Jorge Ribas/The Wash­ing­ton Post) It was a one-mile walk home from a Sil­ver Spring park on Georgia […]

Filed Under: Family Autonomy

CHARTERS in the ESEA Re-authorization Bill!!!

Posted on January 16, 2015 Written by

Scott Walk­er’s Plan to Pri­va­tize Schools An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge “After cut­ting a bil­lion dol­lars from edu­ca­tion, Scott Walk­er and his GOP friends have achieved the goal sink­ing the edu­ca­tion­al poten­tial of Wis­con­sin Schools. On their first day back in ses­sion, Assem­bly Repub­li­cans seek­ing a free mar­ket solu­tion have intro­duced a bill guar­an­tee­ing the wholesale […]

Filed Under: Education, Police State, Property Rights, Surveillance

Proposed water quality rules may limit ag activities

Posted on January 16, 2015 Written by

A new effort to reg­u­late graz­ing and its poten­tial impacts on water qual­i­ty has Cal­i­for­nia ranch­ers con­cerned new rules could lim­it their food pro­duc­tion activ­i­ties and yield lit­tle envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits. State water reg­u­la­tors launched a series of pub­lic lis­ten­ing ses­sions around the state dur­ing Jan­u­ary to solic­it pub­lic com­ments before devel­op­ing a new “Graz­ing Regulatory […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Property Rights, Sustainability, Wildlands Network

Greenhouse Gases “Rise” in Importance for NEPA Reviews –National Environmental Policy Act

Posted on January 16, 2015 Written by

Just before Christ­mas, the White House Coun­cil on Envi­ron­men­tal Qual­i­ty (“CEQ”) pub­lished revised draft guid­ance intend­ed to direct fed­er­al agen­cies on when and how to con­sid­er the effects of green­house gas (“GHG”) emis­sions and cli­mate change when eval­u­at­ing the envi­ron­men­tal effects of pro­posed agency actions under the Nation­al Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­i­cy Act (“NEPA”).  Con­sid­er­a­tion of cli­mate change is […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Natural Resources, Property Rights, Sustainability, Wildlands Network

Beware ESEA Re-authorization!

Posted on January 16, 2015 Written by

To come up for a vote by end of March! An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge This was the plan all along.… The House passed their ver­sion of the re-autho­riza­­­tion in July 2013. The Sen­ate had their ver­sion come out of com­mit­tee last year (HR 5 and SB 1094). Plus, Repub­li­cans put amend­ments that allowed CHOICE VOUCHERS TO […]

Filed Under: Education

County schools’ ROP gets $35K grant

Posted on January 15, 2015 Written by

FA NOTE: Com­mon Core? — The Brain­wash­ing of Kids to Accept Water Scarci­ty SAN BERNARDINO CALIFORNIA— The San Bernardi­no Coun­ty Super­in­ten­dent of Schools’ Region­al Occu­pa­tion­al Pro­gram has received a $35,000 grant to sup­port new high school class­es that address water issues in Cal­i­for­nia. The pro­grams are expect­ed to devel­op new stan­­dards-based mod­el cur­ricu­lum that promote […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Education, Natural Resources, New World Order, Sustainability, Water Rights

Commie Core for Pre‑K

Posted on January 15, 2015 Written by

Go, Maine, Go!“Qual­i­ty ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion — whether pro­vid­ed by par­ents or pri­vate or pub­lic pro­grams — can set stu­dents up for future suc­cess,” said Gov­er­nor Paul R. LeP­age. (Maine Press Release) Anoth­er Com­mu­nist ini­tia­tive sup­port­ed by Maine’s neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Trot­skyite Gov­er­nor Paul LeP­age! From a Press Release from Saman­tha War­ren, Maine DOE Direc­tor of Communications, […]

Filed Under: Education