◼ Brown is seeking a major overhaul of education funding, seeking to give local school districts greater flexibility in how they spend state money while directing more money to school districts with high proportions of poor students and English learners. - Sacramento Bee
The $1 billion Brown will propose will be to implement the so-called Common Core State Standards adopted by California and more than 40 other states since 2010.
What is Common Core? Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal School Curriculum
◼ Common Core GED textbook: "9/11 hijackers were poor Afghanis"
◼ The Common Core Agenda – Let’s Take It From the Top
◼ CFRW COMMON CORE RESOLUTION
◼ RE-CREATING AMERICA: Cultural Sensitivity in Wisconsin Schools
◼ This project would take personal information about each child, apart from any considerations of parental consent, and put it into a database being managed and monitored solely by the government agencies and private corporations that use it
◼ ‘Obama’s, Race to the Top Agenda’ – Selling Children Out For A Profit
The rest of us can fight back, though. Indiana and Utah already have popular rebellions in progress against the Common Core. If you want help with this fight in your area, contact ◼ the American Principles Project.
◼ Common core sparks war over words - Lyndsey Layton/Washington Post
◼ Heartland Daily Podcast: Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Education Takeover (podcast) - Keely Drukala/Heartland
◼ Rotten to the Core: Obama’s War on Academic Standards (Part 1) - Michelle Malkin
◼ Rotten to the Core (Part 2): Readin’, Writin’ and Deconstructionism - Michelle Malkin◼ Rotten to the Core, (Part 3): Lessons from Texas and the Growing Grassroots Revolt - Michelle Malkin
◼ Rotten to the Core (Part 4): The Feds’ Invasive Student Tracking Database - Michelle Malkin
◼ Time To Opt Out of Creepy Fed Ed Data-Mining Racket - Michelle Malkin
◼ Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form now available - Michelle Malkin