We recently received an email asking about the governing documents for Common Core and a couple of individuals sent me this list of links below. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list as that would be difficult to amass. Many of you have seen the illustration at the bottom of the previous article, The Common Core Lie, which shows the number of organizations established to fill in the network of entities and programs seeking to nationalize education. It’s a complex beast with tentacles into every aspect of education. It is apparent that this has been in the works for many years and many documents reference the common core documents or are referenced by them. A few of those are:
- America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education and Science Act (COMPETES Act)
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Documents
Cooperative Agreement between Dept of Ed and SBAC: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop-assessment/sbac-cooperative-agreement.pdf
The copyrighted standards: http://www.corestandards.org/terms-of-use
The Smarter Balanced Governance structure: http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Smarter-Balanced-Governance.pdf
The RTTT application for Utah: http://www.schools.utah.gov/arra/Uses/Utah-Race-to-the-Top-Application.aspx
Challenging and in opposition to a federal takeover of education (which Common Core certainly is):
On FERPA regulations: Here’s the federal regulatory changes that were made without Congressional knowledge/approval: http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=11975031b82001bed902b3e73f33e604&rgn=div5&view=text&node=34:1.1.1.1.33&idno=34
The executive branch is being sued by EPIC for adding those illegal regulations that hurt privacy but advance the cause of Common Core testing’s national data collection agenda: http://epic.org/apa/ferpa/default.html
A link to the Federal law’s which explicitly prohibit the Feds from being involved (GEPA law): http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/1232a
No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system…
9th and 10th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution:
9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
If Common Core becomes integrated/instituted into any State’s educational curriculum, it will be another step adding to the decay and possible destruction of American principles and values establish by the founding fathers. Common Core is a child spawned by Agenda 21, which is a United Nation’s program brought into existence by global powers to destroy the mind-set of Americanism. I hope people and their elected officials can see the evil path that has been laid out by Common Core’s method of standardized testing coupled with curriculum changes and teaching methods that promote a spiral of ever increasing failures in meeting the testing standards followed by further changes in curriculum and teaching methods (for the worse). It will become a systematic way to contribute to the wasted wealth of America and the “dumbing-down” of each generation.