Mom Arrested, Shackled, Jailed Because Her Honor Roll Son Had 3 Unexcused Absences at School

Screven Coun­ty, Geor­gia – Moth­er and sub­sti­tute teacher Julie Giles was arrest­ed this week because her son had too many unex­cused absences from pub­lic school. Writ­ing on her Face­book page before turn­ing her­self in, Giles said “If any­one feels the need to go pub­lic with this feel free to do so….the facts are Sam orig­i­nal­ly […]

Obama’s Ed. Secretary: We Need Gov’t Boarding Schools; ‘Certain Kids We Should Have 24/7′

Edu­ca­tion Sec­re­tar­yArne Dun­can Image source: Asso­ci­at­ed Press Pres­i­dent Obama’s edu­ca­tion sec­re­tary is stir­ring con­tro­ver­sy by sug­gest­ing the U.S. gov­ern­ment should launch board­ing schools for kids – chil­dren the gov­ern­ment would have 24 hours a day. Edu­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Arne Dun­can made the com­ments Tues­day in Arling­ton, Va., at the Youth Vio­lence Pre­ven­tion Sum­mit. (Video is avail­able below.) “One idea […]

URGENT! Approximate Vote Date in Senate on S.1177

#NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA KEEP CALLING (202–224-3121) AND EMAILING YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES!! S1177 (the Reau­tho­riza­tion of ESEA…the old No Child Left Behind Act) is a com­bi­na­tion of Repub­li­can Con­gress­man John Kline’s HR5 Stu­dent Suc­cess Act and Repub­li­can Sen­a­tor Lamar Alexan­der’s Every Child Achieves Act 2015 (S1177) You, mem­bers of Grass­roots […]

And You Thought You’d Heard It All?

#NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA KEEP CALLING (202–224-3121) AND EMAILING YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES!!! S1177 (the Reau­tho­riza­tion of ESEA…the old No Child Left Behind Act) is a com­bi­na­tion of Repub­li­can Con­gress­man John Kline’s HR5 Stu­dent Suc­cess Act and Repub­li­can Sen­a­tor Lamar Alexan­der’s Every Child Achieves Act 2015 (S1177) You, mem­bers of Grass­roots […]

Parents Charge Education Officials with Bullying, Cover-ups over Refusal of Common Core Tests

As parents of thousands of students across the nation are refusing the standardized tests aligned with the Common Core standards, state education officials are digging in their heels and attempting to use authority and, in some cases, intimidation to keep test participation rates up and parents in line. Grass­roots groups of par­ent activists who have been […]

Little Red Riding Hood

#NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA MAKE THIS GO VIRAL!!! MENU FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, FASCISM? (1) Excerpt from “Clus­ters Pro­mote Com­mu­ni­ty Growth” arti­cle below : “Metro Unit­ed Way’s vice pres­i­dent of com­mu­ni­ty invest­ments, Ger­a­lyn Shee­han, calls the teams a pilot pro­gram for the entire nation, teach­ing res­i­dents through­out Amer­i­ca how to recon­nect with […]

The Six (Sick?) C’s

NO WAY ESEA, NO WAY ESEA, NO WAY ESEA. Carnegie’s Com­mu­nist Com­mon Core Choice/Charters ABCs of Dumb­Down: “Birds of a Feath­er Flock Together” Doc­u­men­ta­tion for infor­ma­tion in this post is at the delib­er­ate dumb­ing down of amer­i­ca, FREE down­load at deliberatedumbingdown.com, and at Amer­i­can Deception.com. See bold­ed quote below tak­en from 3D, page 169. Also, the com­plete […]

Michigan Proposes Bill to Require Official Visits to Parents Homeschooling Their Children

The busy­bod­ies in Michi­gan have pro­posed a new bill direct­ed at chil­dren who are home­schooled, which will require two annu­al home inspec­tions and offi­cial state registration. Stephanie Chang, a Michi­gan State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, is wor­ried that home­school par­ents will abuse their chil­dren while no one is watch­ing. Appar­ent­ly, the state wants to be the sole author­i­ty on child abuse; includ­ing indoc­tri­na­tion, […]

Very Comprehensive Explanation of Most Dangerous Amendments to the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015

#NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA  #NO WAY ESEA “Con­tro­ver­sial amend­ments includ­ing issues such as vouch­ers and teacher eval­u­a­tion require­ments were kept off of the bill, but those debates are still expect­ed to be had when the bill hits the full sen­ate. Lead­ers have said that will be lat­er this year, but no debate has been […]

More Details on U.S. Senate HELP Committee’s ESEA Reauthorization Bill

The U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor and Pen­sions (HELP) met last week to markup a bipar­ti­san bill to reau­tho­rize the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act (ESEA) or No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The com­mit­tee con­sid­ered over 50 amend­ments to The Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, which is co-authored by Chair­man Lamar Alexan­der […]

This Is What Communist Common Core/The Reauthorization Of ESEA Is All About

NO WAY ESEA!  NO WAY ESEA!  NO WAY ESEA! The US Depart­ment of State, in a tele­phone call from a con­cerned cit­i­zen in the late 1990’s, con­firmed that these agree­ments were still in effect. ADVERTISEMENT, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, PAGE A‑14/FRIDAY, JULY 1987 (paid for by Nation­al Cit­i­zens Alliance, P.O. Box 6347, Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20015–0347) LISTEN AMERICA, ‘EDU-GATE’ […]

Carnegie’s Common Core Gains Support Of Tax Exempts

CLICK ON LINK AND FORWARD FOR SHOCKING EVIDENCE OF CARNEGIE’S ROLE IN THE FINALIZATION OF COMMUNIST WORLD GOVERNMENT: http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/News/NYTimes_ad_for_web.pdf PARENTS AND TAXPAYERS BEWARE ! Carnegie’s Done Deal: 1934–2015 US Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor, & Pen­sions: News­room — Press Releases Par­ents and tax­pay­ers beware! You don’t have to waste your pre­cious time read­ing all the edu­ca­tionese […]

BREAKING: Tennessee Legislature Repeals Common Core

NASHVILLE, April 21, 2015– Yes­ter­day, in a bipar­ti­san vote, the Ten­nessee House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly (97:0) to repeal Com­mon Core. Today, the Ten­nessee State Sen­ate fol­lowed with a (27:1) vote in favor of repeal. “This leg­is­la­tion is a tem­plate for all states to begin a much need­ed jour­ney of sep­a­ra­tion from fed­er­al­ly gen­er­at­ed stan­dards […]

A Heartless Congressional Blunder!

A Teacher’s Per­spec­tive on the “Every Child Achieves Act of 2015” by Dawn Hoagland, gut­sy pub­lic school teacher and reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to ABCSOFDUMBDOWN.BLOGSPOT.COM The “Every Child Achieves Act” has passed unan­i­mous­ly out of the Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor, and Pen­sion Com­mit­tee in the Sen­ate. The usu­al sus­pects are singing its prais­es while the peo­ple who actu­al­ly read […]

WARNING!!! ESEA Reauthorization Passes Senate Committee!

BIPARTISAN NCLB FIX PASSES SENATE COMMITTEE: Mur­ray Calls for Con­tin­ued Bipar­ti­san Work to Move Bill Through Sen­ate, Get Signed into Law “(Wash­ing­ton, D.C.) – Today, the Sen­ate Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor, and Pen­sions (HELP) Com­mit­tee passed the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015, the bipar­ti­san com­pro­mise reached by Rank­ing Mem­ber Pat­ty Mur­ray (D‑WA) and Chair­man Lamar Alexan­der […]

NO WAY ESEA!

      The US Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor and Pen­sions is dis­cussing this bill now! Call the com­mit­tee mem­bers and tell them to vote NO, should this come to a vote. Repub­li­cans by Rank Lamar Alexan­der (TN) Michael B. Enzi (WY) Richard Burr (NC) John­ny Isak­son (GA) Rand Paul (KY) Susan Collins (ME) Lisa […]

Windham County Districts Revolt Against School Consolidation in Vermont

Pho­to cour­tesy of Wind­ham South­east Super­vi­so­ry UnionPUSH BACK: Wind­ham South­east Super­vi­so­ry Union Super­in­ten­dent Ron Stahley co-wrote a let­ter with school board lead­ers express­ing strong oppo­si­tion to school con­sol­i­da­tion in Vermont. A back­lash over statewide school con­sol­i­da­tion is under way in Ver­mont as mem­bers of the Wind­ham South­east Super­vi­so­ry Union Board sent a let­ter to state […]

Common Core, Part 3

LEARN the FACTS about Com­mon Core’s Com­mu­nist Roots “We must declare open­ly what is con­cealed,name­ly, the polit­i­cal func­tion of the school.…It is to con­struct com­mu­nist soci­ety.”~Lenin The lat­est install­ment in a series from Dr. Den­nis Cud­dy, “Com­mon Core: Part 3″ was pub­lished on NewsWith­Views, March 30, 2015. Dr. Cud­dy wrote about a trip that the “ ‘Father of […]

Lamar vs. Aldous

NO WAY, ESEA! The ULTIMATE REVOLUTION ~Wrap-around health services ~Com­mu­ni­ty wel­fare “hubs” (Source) A 3D Research Report by a Grass­roots Mother Com­ing at us from every direc­tion.… Lamar Alexan­der’s blue­print for the Reau­tho­riza­tion of the ESEA agen­da is based on an old roadmap devel­oped by Aldous and Julian Hux­ley. Lamar’s agen­da can be sam­pled in these […]

Vermont House Approves Forced Consolidation of School Districts

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Despite one lawmaker’s valiant effort to pre­serve local con­trol over schools in Ver­mont, the state House on Wednes­day vot­ed 88–55 to force dis­tricts to merge into 1,100-student pre-K-12 edu­ca­tion sys­tems, or to have the Agency of Edu­ca­tion do it for them. As rep­re­sen­ta­tives dis­cussed H.361 — the House Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee bill to reor­ga­nize 270-plus school dis­tricts into […]

Grassroots Response to Marc Tucker

No way, ESEA!   FOR THOSE AMERICANS WHO HAVE BEEN  LIVING ON MARS: THE MORE BILLIONS THE GOVERNMENT SPENDS ON EDUCATION THE MORE THE DECLINE IN TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC TEST SCORES $ee the ear­li­er post about MARC TUCKER of the CARNEGIE CORPORATION titled “Gov­er­nance” — Erad­i­ca­tion of Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Gov­ern­ment: Marc Tuck­er’s Good­bye to Your Rights and Free­doms.” Tuck­er’s […]

School Officials Learning Coercive Interrogations Tactics to Extract Confessions from Kids

Adult inter­ro­ga­tion meth­ods do not belong in the class­room, so why are school admin­is­tra­tors through­out the Unit­ed States being trained to use them on their stu­dents in order to extract confessions? John E. Reid & Asso­ciates is the largest inter­ro­ga­tion train­er in the world and teach­es such meth­ods to hun­dreds of school admin­is­tra­tors each year. […]

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong on H.R. 5

An Alert by Anita Hoge Nation­al Review Online and Thomas B. Ford­ham Insti­tute are wrong, wrong, wrong on HR 5. Nation­al Review Online and Ford­ham Insti­tute are total­ly wrong on HR 5. They are call­ing HR 5 as “take back our schools” leg­is­la­tion and that “fed­er­al over­reach in edu­ca­tion might final­ly be com­ing to a close.” Michael […]

(Part two) School consolidation leads to voluntary teacher-staff reductions, VSBA exec says

FA Note: Again, as with Part One of this series pub­lished March 17, please crit­i­cally exam­ine this arti­cle in lieu of the warn­ings of Char­lotte Iser­byt, Ani­ta Hoge, and oth­ers about pro­posed edu­ca­tion “reform” in our nation,especially char­ter (con­tract) schools, in the com­mu­nist model. WHERE’S THE SAVINGS? Advo­cates of school con­sol­i­da­tion in Ver­mont say merg­ing schools […]