Call for Action to Opposed Proposed Federal Rules mandating Common Core:
Lake County conservative Larry Brooks sent me this request for action: You can either go directly to the Freedomworks Call for Action Page at #1) below, or read the background information first at #2) below then go back to #1 and visit the Freedomworks Call for Action page.
1) Freedomworks Call for Action: They are asking people to submit comments opposing Common Core and they will forward it to the relevant agencies:
https://fwact.org/95mMqds
2) Here are Larry's background comments:
SUBJECT(s): Executive Overreach; 10th Amendment; Common Core
Common Core is a Trojan Horse Progressive program that gives the Federal Government more control into the education process, including opportunities for biased national indoctrination of our children, among many other offenses and risks.
Regulations are now being considered that will weaken a new law (ESSA) intended to "roll back" federal controls over education. However, these proposed DOE regulations will instead strengthen Common Core and spread it.
The forwarded FreedomWorks message below warns of it, and provides a link to send a personal message to "relevant Federal agencies." It is recommended that we do this in our own original words; we can also contact our representatives in Congress. Opportunity for input ends on 1 Aug, reportedly.
Thus, while Congress thought it was implementing a law to reduce Federal involvement in education (a state responsibility) and restrict Common Core on the surface, the law allowed the FEDERAL Department of Education (DOE) to oversee the states' plans, and in doing this they (DOE) are now proposing regulations that will work against the purpose of the law!
A short (better written) National Review overview article on this matter can be accessed at
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438025/education-department-schools-regulate-every-student-succeeds-act
Excerpts from the National Review Article in the above link:
Title: "Bureaucrats manipulate a new law that was designed to reduce federal involvement in education."
"In December of last year, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which aimed to roll back much of the federal government’s role in education policy, but now the Department of Education has released a lengthy proposal that might impede that goal."
"One such measure would require states to take 'robust action' against public schools that don’t meet a 95 percent threshold for participation in standardized tests. In other words, if more than 5 percent of students in a certain school decide not to take federal 'accountability' tests — or if their parents opt out for them, something many parents have been doing in a grassroots effort to oppose the high-stakes mode of testing — that school must be formally sanctioned by the state.
[LB note-This sounds a lot like Bill Clinton's struck down "Brady Bill," but this attempt to control the states is through bureaucratic regulation instead of Congressional law. Nevertheless it is still fundamentally a violation of the 10th Amendment, or at least its intent, in my opinion.]
"The Department of Education is accepting feedback on its proposal until August 1. After that, federal bureaucrats will finalize the rules. If the department goes through with these heavy regulations as proposed, it seems likely that the most crucial parts of ESSA could be overridden by federal oversight — exactly what the law was written to prevent."
LB
"The Federal Government may not compel the States to enact or administer a federal regulatory program." Justice Scalia, quoting from New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992) in the cases 95-1478 (Printz) and 95-1503 (Mack) v. United States regarding the Brady Act.
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