Hoosiers, Urgent! Seventy percent of registered voters report knowing very little about the new school curriculum called Common Core Standards. Common Core was developed behind closed doors by a group of bureaucrats affiliated with a Washington D.C. group called the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association in 2009. This new standard of teaching Math and English is being implemented as early as this fall even though this method had never been field-tested. Common Core (C.C.) is quietly replacing the “No Child Left Behind” curriculum without parents having any idea how or why this is happening in their child’s classroom or how to change or discontinue it if they don’t like it. C.C. is owned, copyrighted and operated by private associations in Washington D.C. C.C. standards are backed by the federal government and the U.S. Department of Education. This move will practically remove all state, local, and parental participation in the education of the children of Indiana. C.C. will require mandatory national testing that will be funded by another $350 million from the federal stimulus package and will replace the ISTEP testing program. Indiana must implement 100% of C.C.’s curriculum; this includes any private institutions that accept state vouchers and home schooling programs that require state certification. C.C. will collect massive amounts of personal data from student to share with other government agencies. In 2010 the Obama administration began luring states to implement the standards by offering them a slice of the $4.5 billion ‘Race for the Top’ fund created from the federal stimulus package. The Indiana General Assembly, mesmerized by ‘Federal Dollars’, was poised to vote these standards into law. However, push back from their constituents in opposition to these new standards derailed the vote and your current elected representatives punted the issue away. Punting is exactly what it implies; the issue was kicked to the other team. In this case the other team is the Indiana State School Board which is composed of the very people who proposed the standards be voted into law in the first place. So why am I telling you this? In my opinion, this flies in the face of the basic principles we should believe in. It not only removes our control of what we teach our children: it hands these rights to the federal government and unelected bureaucrats. It also chips away at our Tenth Amendment right of State sovereignty to educate our children in the way we believe is best for the children of Indiana. I will do all that I can to see that these new standards are brought into the light of day so the public can judge for themselves if we want our children educated in this matter. When it comes to our children’s education, local control is the best control. What can you do? On July 1st, 2013, Governor Pence will be selecting six new members to the Indiana State School Board. Please, e-mail, write, and/or call Gov. Pence’s office and request the Governor select six new members who are utterly opposed to Common Core Standards. Also ask him for more public hearings in each county to inform parents of this fundamental change to Indiana’s current curriculum. We need to prevent implementation of Common Core this year. Call or write NOW! Governor Mike Pence 200 W. Washington St. Rm.206 Indianapolis, IN. 46204 1-317-232-4567 or in.gov/gov/2333.htm Ted Metzger, Republican Candidate for Indiana State Senate Dist. 48
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:00:35 +0000
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