Who and what groups are supporting the unconstitutional school choice agenda?<\/p>\n
It is important for Mainers, and all Americans, for that matter, to ask the following question:<\/p>\n
How is it possible for the following individuals and groups, who traditionally have been at odds, to all support school choice\/virtual charter schools?<\/p>\n
Arne Duncan, Obama’s leftist Secretary of Education, Edwin Feulner, President, Heritage Foundation and other neoconservative leaders, the globalist (world government supporting) Council on Foreign Relations<\/p>\n
The above support leaves most traditional (Goldwater) conservatives shaking their heads.<\/p>\n
The end result of what Maine\u2019s Governor Paul LePage and his Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen (and others in similar positions in ALL states) are doing will be the destruction of not only our formerly (pre-1965) excellent public education system, but, more importantly, the destruction of private education as well since once an education institution, be it public, private, home school, Christian, or charter school, accepts one penny of tax money from the federal, state, or local level, it MUST abide by ALL federal regulations and MUST take the federal test which means it must TEACH TO THE TEST which is 50% attitudinal (politically correct). <\/p>\n
THIS EQUALS TOTAL GOVERNMENT\/CORPORATE CONTROL OF YOUR CHILD\u2019S EDUCATION.<\/strong><\/p>\n A top change agent with the NEA made NEA\u2019s plan, and that of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the neoconservative organizations, very clear in an article in Educational Leadership, in 1994. The following quote is taken from \u201cthe deliberate dumbing down of America,\u201d page 321:<\/p>\n \u201cTO OBE OR NOT TO OBE?\u201d WAS THE QUESTION POSED BY MARJORIE LEDELL, ASSOCIATE of William Spady\u2019s in his High Success Network, in her article for Educational Leadership\u2019s January 1994 issue. From page 18 we read:<\/p>\n “Finally, raise the real issue and depend on democracy. Don\u2019t let \u201cto OBE [outcomes based education, ed] or Not to OBE\u201d or \u201cto implement or not implement efforts to improve student learning\u201d cloud the overdue national debate about whether public education should exist or be replaced with publicly funded private education.”<\/p>\n What Ledell is recommending (publicly funded, tax funded PRIVATE education) is being recommended by LePage and Bowen at the direction of the Obama Administration, the Heritage Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations. This is happening all over the country since the above agenda belongs to the National Governors Association (NGA), and the Governors take their orders from the NGA. Same for the state affiliates of the Heritage Foundation which take their orders from Heritage in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n This NEA, NGA, CFR, Heritage Foundation plan, unfortunately being accepted and promoted by many well-meaning conservatives and Tea Party groups (not all, thank goodness…many are withdrawing their support when they get the information I am providing in this email) spells not only the end of private education, but, of utmost importance, and please read this over and over:<\/p>\n THE END OF OUR FREE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AND OUR REPRESENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT.<\/strong><\/p>\n The goal of school choice, unbeknownst to many, is and has always been the opposite of what we are told. The goal is the takeover of the public and private school sectors through partnerships with the corporate sector in order to implement socialist work force training, formerly found only in communist countries. Carnegie Corporation, in its little blue book entitled “Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies”<\/a>, 1934, called for using the schools to change our nation’s free market economy to a planned economy. <\/p>\n Carnegie’s “planned economy” is going in right now through public\/private partnerships (school to work) and school choice\/charter school proposals being recommended by the aforementioned groups. This is happening at the same time our representative republic with its elective form of government is being undermined through acceptance of tax-supported charter schools which have NO elected school boards (no accountability to the taxpayers). This is known as taxation without representation. When and if Americans accept unelected councils to run one of the largest economic sectors of our economy (publicly-funded charter schools) what is to keep them from accepting the unelected Soviet council form of government across the board?<\/p>\n Interestingly enough, and hard to accept, is the fact that none of this \u201cplanned\u201d change in our economic system and form of government would have been tolerated had the building blocks not been put in place by prominent so-called \u201cconservative\u201d Republicans: President Ronald Reagan and Edward Feulner, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative group in the nation. The following quote from an article in the May 14, 1984 issue of The Washington Post entitled \u201cIndustrial Policy Urged for GOP\u201d sheds some light on behind-the-scenes activities which have led to acceptance of school choice and corporate-fascist workforce training necessary for a planned economy:<\/p>\n From DDD pp. 299-300: \u201cA conservative study group founded by supporters of President Reagan is about to issue a report that advocates Republicans shed some of their deep-rooted antipathy to a planned economy.<\/strong> The \u201cIndustrial Policy Debate\u201d is to be issued today by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a think tank founded by Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and other Reagan supporters.”<\/em><\/p>\n As Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1981-1983, I served as liaison to the President\u2019s Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives. <\/p>\n The following information is taken from DDD 1999, pp. 175-176.<\/p>\n \u201cEARLY IN 1981 THE PRESIDENT\u2019S TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE SECTOR INITIATIVES WAS INSTALLED<\/strong> at 734 Jackson Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. Membership listed on The White House letterhead read like a \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of individuals in government agencies, universities, tax-exempt foundations, non-governmental organizations, business, media, labor unions, and religion. The names of some individuals on the task force follow: William Aramony, president, United Way; William J. Baroody, Jr., president, American Enterprise Institute; Helen G. Boosalis, mayor, City of Lincoln, Nebraska; Terence Cardinal Cooke, archbishop of New York; Governor Pierre S. Dupont, Delaware; Senator David Durenberger; Luis A. Ferre, former governor of Puerto Rico; John Gardner, chairman, Independent Sector; Edward Hill, pastor, Mt. Zion Baptist Church; Michael S. Joyce, executive director, John M. Olin Foundation; Edward H. Kiernan, president, International Association of Police; Arthur Levitt, Jr., chairman, American Stock Exchange; Richard W. Lyman, president, Rockefeller Foundation; Elder Thomas S. Monson, The MormonChurch; William C. Norris, chairman and CEO, Control Data Corporation; George Romney, chairman, National Center for Citizen Involvement; C. William Verity, Jr., chairman, Armco Steel, Inc.; Jeri J. Winger, first vice president, General Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs; Thomas H. Wyman, president, CBS, Inc.; and William S. White, president, C.S. Mott Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n This totally new and un-American concept of partnerships between the public and private sector has been readily accepted by our elected officials who ignore its roots in socialism and its implications for the discontinuation of our representative form of government and accountability to the taxpayers. Under the \u201cpartnership\u201d process, determining responsibility when something goes wrong is like pinning jello to the wall.<\/em><\/p>\n Such a change in government, if presented in clear language to citizens at the polls, would be rejected. However, when implemented gradually, using the Marxist-Hegelian Dialectic, citizens don\u2019t even notice what is happening. The shift is away from elected representatives. In time, after voters have become even more disenchanted with the candidates and election results, fewer and fewer citizens will vote. At that point a highly-respected member of the public will enter the picture to propose a solution to the problem: some sort of compromise toward parliamentary form of government found in socialist democracies which will be acceptable to Americans unfamiliar with the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n One says to oneself, confidently, \u201cThis will never happen.\u201d Look around you. What do you see? Site-based management in your local schools, transferring decision-making, traditionally exercised by elected school boards, to politically correct appointees and the creation of unelected task forces at all government levels; proposals to \u201cseparate school and state\u201d which make no mention of governmental and social structure consequences\u2014efforts to have government money (taxes) pay for services delivered by private religious or home schools, etc., with no public representation. There can be no accountability to the taxpayers under a system so alien to the United States\u2019 form of representative government.<\/em> As a U.S. Department of Education liaison with The White House during the early days of this initiative this writer inquired of one of President Reagan\u2019s political appointees whether this initiative was not corporate fascism; a politically incorrect question that resulted in someone else replacing me as Liaison with The White House.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Doesn\u2019t the above agenda, set in 1981, sound exactly like what is being carved in stone as I write? Even I, who saw and experienced all that happened 31 years ago, am a bit in shock, realizing that what I saw and wrote about is actually being carried out exactly as planned.<\/p>\n Heritage Foundation\u2019s role in the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the resultant loss of hundreds of thousands of American jobs (high unemployment) has caused the American people to accept any solution to their economic problems, even acceptance of the Carnegie Corporation\u2019s planned economy and the transformation of our schools from academics to the Soviet workforce training system. What is happening represents an exquisite example of the use of the Hegelian dialectic: create the problem, people scream, impose the solution they would never have accepted had the problem not been deliberately created in the first place. Please read from \u201cthe deliberate dumbing down of america\u201d, 1999, pp. 303-304: The idea of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) originated with Heritage Fellow Richard Allen and has long been advocated by Heritage policy analysts…. The idea of creating a North American free trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan was first proposed by Heritage Distinguished Fellow Richard Allen in the late 1970s, refined by then Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, and further developed in a major 1986 Heritage Foundation study. (p. 4)<\/p>\n [Ed. Note: The Free Trade Agreement got the ball rolling for the development of skills standards by the newly formed National Skills Standards Board, endorsed by the U.S. Labor Department Secretary\u2019s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) study originated under Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole, and eventually led to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the dumbing down of American education curriculum for workforce training. With all of this emphasis on \u201cstandards\u201d it should be pointed out that NAFTA allows exchanges of all categories of professionals, with those coming from Mexico and Canada having met their own countries\u2019 standards, not necessarily equal to those required in the United States. If this process evolves the way most of these exchange processes have in the past, that disparity will be addressed in one of two ways\u2014by changing U.S. standards to match foreign standards, or by altering both NAFTA nations\u2019 standards to align with international standards like ISO 9000 or ISO 1400] <\/p>\n If we, in the year 2012, accept the NEA, NGA, Heritage Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Obama Administration school choice proposals being presented to us as a solution to the \u201cdeliberate\u201d dumbing down of America (the Hegelian dialectic at work), we taxpayers will be funding the demise of academic education. We will also be funding the operation of profit-oriented corporations, not our local schools.<\/p>\n The ultimate goal for those who wish to put us into a collectivized regional government system under the UN will take place due to acceptance of this corporate fascist agenda. I hope the reader of this article will read and distribute the following three articles which discuss the use of our tax money to train our children as robots to spin off profits for the global economy:<\/p>\n 1- How On-Line Learning Companies Bought America’s Schools<\/a> And, unlike in the past. when we had locally elected school boards to which we could register our complaints, there will be nowhere to go to complain since charter schools are run by unelected councils. Unelected council form of government is, by the way, the Soviet council form of government.<\/p>\n Note: The writer understands well the disillusion being experienced by people reading this article since she, herself, went through the same disillusion after joining the Reagan Administration in 1981. As a loyal Reagan supporter I refused to read \u201cHere\u2019s the Rest of Him\u201d, by Kent Steffgen, sent to me by United Republicans of California. Steffgen\u2019s well-documented book exposed the \u201creal\u201d Ronald Reagan. In fact I was infuriated that any individual or group of conservatives would write such a \u201clibelous\u201d book about someone I respected and had worked so hard to get elected. I put the book in my bookcase and took off for Washington to work as a Reagan political appointee in the U.S. Dept. of Education. It didn\u2019t take me long to recognize that my trust had been misplaced; that President Reagan was not what or who I had been lead to believe he was. One particular federally funded grant emanating from my office, which called for \u201ccontrolling and manipulating the locals\u201d shocked me into action. DDD pp. 170-171 states:<\/p>\n ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGY<\/strong> (AECT\u2014A SPIN-OFF OF the National Education Association) received an $855,282 federal contract for \u201cProject BEST\u201d (Better Education Skills through Technology) in 1981. An explanatory brochure states:<\/p>\n “WHAT IS PROJECT BEST?<\/strong> Project BEST is a cooperative effort involving both the federal, state, and local government and the private sector in the planning and use of modern information technologies to improve the effectiveness of basic skills, teaching and learning. On a sheet circulated within the U.S. Department of Education as an internal document entitled \u201cProject BEST Dissemination Design Considerations,\u201d there appeared the following information: BEST\u2019s promotional flyer blatantly discussed how the project would serve not just in education, but for other program areas as well, to implement the national\/international management system (MBO, PPBS, TQM):<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition, the State Team approach and the communications network with professional associations and other groups established by the project will serve as a model for the states in implementing similar efforts in other areas of education, or in such program areas as health, human services, housing, transportation, etc.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Doesn\u2019t the above plan sound like totalitarian socialism\/fascism\/communism?<\/p>\n As a former school board member I was shocked, especially by the call for \u201ccontrol and manipulation\u201d at the state and local level. I leaked the document to Human Events which published it, and was subsequently fired for doing so. (As if the U.S. Department of Education is the equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency or the U.S. Department of Defense which necessarily has to classify its documents to keep them from the public eye)!<\/p>\n Upon returning home I pulled the book \u201cHere\u2019s the Rest of Him<\/a>,\u201d available at Amazon.com, and HERE ON THIS WEBSITE<\/a>, and I read it start to finish. It tells the whole unsavory story about Governor Reagan; it tells a story I did not want to read. It says bad things about someone I had been conditioned to believe was the solution to our nation\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n So, you see, don\u2019t feel too badly about having been \u201chad.\u201d We, who are trying to warn the rest of you, have been \u201chad\u201d as well. The road to the truth is uphill, by foot, and seldom pleasant.<\/p>\n Please allow the last chapter of our nation\u2019s history to be written by \u201cus,\u201d not \u201cthem.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nHow clean, neat and tidy. Wholesale destruction of an entire, wonderful system of government without firing a shot.<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nTHE 1993 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON, D.C.,<\/strong> dedicated to their twentieth year celebration, revealed the following:<\/p>\n
\n2- Special Report: The Profit Motive Behind Virtual Schools in Maine<\/a>
\n3- Charlotte Iserbyt: Education Restructuring for Global Economy<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nPROJECT DESIGN FEATURES<\/strong>
\nWhat We Can Control or Manipulate?
\nState participation\/selection process
\nRole of advisors
\nContent of program
\nTraining of state leaders
\nResource people utilized
\nBasic skills content areas emphasized
\nPerception of need to use technology\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n