PA Press Release on ESEA Violations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Penn­syl­va­ni­ans Restor­ing Education Feb­ru­ary 5, 2015, Penn­syl­va­ni­ans Restor­ing Edu­ca­tion, Penn­syl­va­nia Against Com­mon Core, Cit­i­zens of Penn­syl­va­nia, par­ents and stu­dents are ask­ing Sen­a­tor Lamar Alexan­der to stop the REAUTHORIZATION of ESEA: Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 which will amend No Child Left Behind. This leg­is­la­tion vio­lates fed­er­al law, […]

CHARTER SNOW BALL PICKING UP SPEED

The Dissolution of Local Representative Government Through Charter Schools Charter Horror Stories ESEA Reau­tho­riza­tion bill and char­ters, see HERENo Way ESEA! It is the best kept secret in the coun­try. The most durable myth — that char­ter schools are “local con­trol” — per­pet­u­at­ed by BOTH the Polit­i­cal Right and the Polit­i­cal Left. In fact char­ters elim­i­nate […]

The ESEA Power Grab

The death of local control NO WAY ESEA! “We should nev­er per­mit the Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion­al system to become the vehi­cle for experimentation by edu­ca­tion­al ideologues. A care­ful analy­sis of the writ­ings and statements of vocal and influ­en­tial spokesmen in the gov­ern­men­tal and edu­ca­tion­al fields indi­cates a desire on the part of some of these individuals to […]

Why Anita Hoge Needs to Testify Before Congress

Every Amer­i­can needs to hear what Ani­ta Hoge said on the Rense Radio inter­view Fri­day night.… What we found in con­tracts we requested was that Penn­syl­va­nia was the model to cre­ate a nation­al I.D. for every per­son in the Unit­ed States, start­ing at birth;  they called it a womb to work­place database  and it includes every individual.… [They […]

What Does ObamaCare Have to Do With the ESEA Reauthorization?

The fight for the right to be Free! By Ani­ta Hoge “Chair­man Alexan­der and his staff have asked for input from the pub­lic on his dis­cus­sion draft by Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 2 via the e‑mail address [email protected]” (Source) How many Amer­i­cans hate Oba­maCare? Why do Amer­i­cans HATE ObamaCare? We have social­ized med­i­cine now. Do you want to nation­al­ize […]

ALERT: ESEA

Ani­ta Hoge’s Pre­cious Good­bye to America                                                                                                   […]

What Diane Ravitch isn’t telling you

The Whole Truth about the “Whole Child” An Edi­to­r­i­al by Ani­ta Hoge Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Pri­va­ti­za­tion Move­ment and the Dan­ger to Amer­i­ca’s Pub­lic Schools is the title of the new book by Diane Rav­itch. It is favor­ably reviewed and sum­ma­rized at the Dai­ly Kos HERE. Rav­itch’s book pur­ports to answers ques­tions about […]

Teachers Refuse The Test

Par­ents, in grow­ing num­bers, have been refus­ing the Com­mon Core aligned test for their chil­dren. Over 50% (see cor­rec­tion) of the stu­dents in New York City refused the test last year. Yes­ter­day I wrote about Jia Lee who said she found it uncon­scionable to give the new Com­mon Core aligned tests to her stu­dents. Anoth­er […]

Education Reform Explained in 8 Minutes

The back­ground of the Reau­tho­riza­tion of the ESEA This 8‑minute YouTube video is gain­ing trac­tion. Watch it here:  . Please keep it mov­ing. Please for­ward to your media contacts. Published on Jan 24, 2015, Angela Alef and Karen Champagne gave their presentation in Memphis, TN on 10/29/2014. Charlotte Iserbyt of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America was […]

STOP REAUTHORIZATION OF ESEA

BOMBARD CONGRESS  WITH EMAILS, LETTERS AND PHONE CALLS!  STOP the Reau­tho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act (ESEA), oth­er­wise known as Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 spon­sored by Sen. Lamar Alexan­der. This bill amends the No Child Left Behind which is the Re-autho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act of […]

(Missouri conference) What Is The Role Of Public Schools

After sev­er­al years look­ing at Com­mon Core; where it came from, who sup­ports it, how it is being imple­ment­ed, its impact on teachers/students/parents, and lis­ten­ing to the com­plaints of parents/the gen­er­al pub­lic about it, I view Com­mon Core as a symp­tom, not the cause of the pub­lic out­cry over edu­ca­tion. I believe the rea­son most […]

Bill Gates Rules the World

Data­bank­ing Every­body Everywhere (Source) From the arti­cle above, “Bill Gates: dig­i­tal learn­ing will rev­o­lu­tionise edu­ca­tion in glob­al south”, Cheap­er smart­phones and tablets, advances in soft­ware and bet­ter net­work cov­er­age will rev­o­lu­tionise the way chil­dren in devel­op­ing coun­tries learn over the next 15 years, accord­ing to the Microsoft co-founder and phil­an­thropist Bill Gates.… “The edu­ca­tion­al soft­ware is […]

Lamar Alexander’s Re-authorization of ESEA

Ani­ta B. Hoge A Pre­lim­i­nary Analy­sis of the Bill by Ani­ta Hoge Source: http://help.senate.gov/imo/media/AEG15033.pdf This bill was pre­sent­ed twice and referred to committee. Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 spon­sored by Sen. Lamar Alexan­der. This bill amends No Child Left Behind which is the Re-autho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act of 1965 […]

Deaf Ears

Yes­ter­day, I set about the busi­ness of writ­ing about Ida­ho State Board of Edu­ca­tion and their appar­ent inabil­i­ty to hear the voic­es of the voters. In 2012 there was a bal­lot ini­tia­tive that asked to vot­ers to approve a pro­gram of pay-for-per­for­mance for teach­ers.  The vot­ers reject­ed the pro­gram.  There were actu­al­ly three ini­tia­tives on […]

NH bill would ban Common Core national standards

CONCORD, N.H. – A bill intro­duced to the New Hamp­shire Sen­ate would pro­hib­it the state from requir­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of Com­mon Core edu­ca­tion stan­dards, a pow­er­ful first step towards a nul­li­fi­ca­tion of fed­er­al con­trol over education. Intro­duced by State Sen. Kevin Avard (R‑Nashua), Sen­ate Bill (SB101) suc­cinct­ly states that Com­mon Core “shall not be required […]

ESEA & your property taxes!

Elim­i­nat­ing prop­er­ty tax­es aligns with the  ESEA Re-autho­riza­tion bill! The fol­low­ing alert by Ani­ta Hoge per­tains to a bill in the state of Penn­syl­va­nia (HB 76, The Prop­er­ty Tax Inde­pen­dence Act), but it could just as eas­i­ly apply to your local state. Do you know what it lurk­ing in your state’s leg­is­la­tion? Read this very impor­tant alert. Elim­i­nat­ing […]

OBAMA TARGETS BABIES!

Assess­ing the babies is Oba­ma’s agenda http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/inftodd/mod1/1.1.pdf Ani­ta B. Hoge An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge This is the birth to kinder­garten men­tal health inter­ven­tions for our babies. This is research for the ear­ly learn­ing and the $1 bil­lion that Oba­ma is fund­ing for day­care and preschool. http://ecmhc.org/documents/CECMHC_FacilitatingToolkit.pdf This toolk­it Facil­i­tat­ing Indi­vid­u­al­ized Inter­ven­tions to Address Chal­leng­ing Behav­ior is […]

HIPAA & FERPA

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION  ABOUT THE RULES FOR HIPAA AND FERPA  COVERING AN EDUCATION RECORD An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge Ani­ta B. Hoge EDUCATION RECORDS ARE NOT COVERED BY HIPAA. NO MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AT SCHOOL ARE COVERED BY HIPAA. Expla­na­tion of HIPPA and FER­PA-Ear­ly Child­hood Data can be found in this doc­u­ment: A Look at Penn­syl­va­ni­a’s Ear­ly Child­hood Data System […]

Homeschooling Parents Declared to be ‘Bona Fide’ Guardians and Won’t Face Jail

There was a spir­it­ed meet­ing at the Gooch Coun­ty (VA) School Board last night as hun­dreds of peo­ple attend­ed to show their con­cern about a dis­trict pol­i­cy that home­schooled stu­dents (at age 14) must declare their reli­gious affil­i­a­tion. From wric.com: There’s con­tro­ver­sy in Goochland over home­school­ing. It all stems from a new pol­i­cy that some […]

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

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 […]

CHARTERS in the ESEA Re-authorization Bill!!!

Scott Walk­er’s Plan to Pri­va­tize Schools Ani­ta B. Hoge An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge https://goleftamerica.wildapricot.org/stop-charter-school-takeover “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 […]

Beware ESEA Re-authorization!

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 […]

County schools’ ROP gets $35K grant

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 […]

Commie Core for Pre-K

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, […]