Obama Pours Millions into Building and Renovating Healthcare Centers on School Campuses As the U.S. Supreme Court mulls the constitutionality of the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act which appropriates $200 million for the School-Based Health Center Capital Program, last Wednesday $75 million in taxpayer money became available to build and renovate health clinics inside schools. The … Continue reading ObamaCare Coming to a School Near You
There’s a wealth of clearly written and referenced information –much you may not know– in a white paper released this week: Controlling Education From the Top: Why the Common Core is Bad for America. (by American Principles Project and Pioneer Institute) http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/Controlling-Education-From-the-Top%5B1%5D.pdf The first section focuses on the mediocrity of the standards, which have redefined “college readiness” as preparing students … Continue reading Controlling Education From the Top: Why the Common Core is Bad for America
Dear Utah State School Board, First, thank you for putting on last Thursday’s statewide forum. It was an admirable display of freedom of speech and thought in America. Both sides were treated with fairness and respect. Second, I’m asking you to review some additional research as you weigh educational data-collection methods and as you advise school boards statewide … Continue reading SBAC and Utah’s Database
Addendum: If the USOE would care to respond to any of this information as a rebuttal, I would be happy to post it on this website. Consider this a challenge to debunk our information with documented facts. The Utah State Office of Education has published a pamphlet to try and tell people that all the … Continue reading Correcting the USOE’s “Facts” – Education without Representation
First, I want to thank the State Board for allowing the meeting to occur last night. There are many questions that need addressed that citizens have concerns over and a public forum was a good way to get those aired. For those of you in attendance or listening in to last night’s public meeting the … Continue reading Common Core Public Forum Report
4/23/12 Article on Heritage Foundation Blog When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal government,” said Sandra Stotsky, 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality at the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform, speaking at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. … Continue reading Why States Should Hop Off the Federal Bandwagon
I keep hearing accusations that we are against higher standards and thought it would be appropriate to set the record straight since the facts show the USOE certainly isn’t concerned with higher standards. As one individual who was very involved in the math standards issue the last several years I would like to give you … Continue reading A Recent History of Utah’s Math Standards
This petition is the product of collaboration between parents, teachers, legislators, and organizations who are concerned at the lack of attention being given to a serious breach in federal law by our state officials. Please become educated on this vital issue and sign the petition to put the brakes on a federal takeover of our … Continue reading Petition Launched
Evidence of a National Education Takeover Due to the onslaught of new information, this page is a little bit outdated. There is still a lot of great stuff here, but the latest research and information has only been posted to the blog. Starter articles Cato Institute The Other Federal Takeover Pioneer Institute The Road to … Continue reading Evidence
Utahns Against Common Core To get on our email list, sign up below. “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system, that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” -Justice Louis … Continue reading Home