SB 1316 was filed!! 2 Action Items.. Thank Senator Evers and KEEP THE PRESS ON..

[Leanne King]

ACTION ITEM #1

SENATOR EVERS FILED THE BILL -PLEASE CALL HIM AND THANK HIM!
Senator Evers
850-487-5002
850-595-0213

You may know this already but Yesterday "Greg Evers, R-Pensacola, filed a bill (SB 1316) that's identical to a measure proposed by Rep. Debbie Mayfield in the House."

Florida senator files anti-Common Core bill

by Jeffrey S. SolochekJeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer,
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 2:35pm

A week after the Florida Board of Education affirmed the state's commitment to the Common Core State Standards, a state senator has submitted legislation aiming to stop the standards from taking effect.
Sen. Greg Evers, R-Pensacola, filed a bill (SB 1316) that's identical to a measure proposed by Rep. Debbie Mayfield in the House. Mayfield's HB 25 has picked up four of the House's most conservative members as co-sponsors, but has not made any headway during committee weeks despite being assigned to three committees.
Senate leaders have shown even less interest in stopping the Common Core -- now referred to as the Florida Standards after a handful of small changes -- than their counterparts in the House. Senate President Don Gaetz has made clear he doesn't see the standards as a federal conspiracy, and he's had his education chairman make clear that the Senate wants to hear of specific concerns, not overarching accusations or complaints.

Both bills seek to prevent implementation of the Common Core until several public hearings can take place and a financial impact analysis is completed. The DOE recently held several public hearings before adopting the revised standards.
The bills also require Florida to drop out of the PARCC testing consortium, which Florida has already begun doing.

ACTION ITEM #2

Florida senator files anti-Common Core Bill SB1316 identical to HB 25, Take action now
Now is the time to STOP common core in Florida. Even if you already called and written or tried to visit your representative keep it up. Now we have a good chance of saving our kids from common core at least for this year. With the same bill in both houses there a chance that Republicans can get on the winning side of this issue.

 

We MUST continue to provide feedback to our elected officials. Once is not enough. Share these with your friends and encourage them to get involved.

Find your Florida State Senators here: (Click on Senator’s and then Find Your Legislators)

http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/Results.cfm

Find your Florida State Representatives here:

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/representati...

WHILE YOU ARE AT IT CALL/WRITE RICK SCOTT AS WELL... WE WANT THE ENTIRE PROGRAM GONE. At a minimum he needs to get behind these bills.

Gov. Rick Scott, Phone [phone]

The Capitol, 400 S. Monroe St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001

Complete email form at http://www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/email-the-governor/

 

 

Coming soon:  President Obama is asking for additional monies to be made available to begin EDUCATIONAL programs for children as young as 4.  Pre-Education... More carrots for the states via grants and give aways. “Eyes wide open”. As you find information related to this issue please pass them on to me.

 

Additional Information.   (-A great write up on some history)

National Takeover of School Curriculum

By Phyllis Schlafly

February 26, 2014

Many people said Ho-Hum when Barack Obama threatened to change any law with his pen or phone, and even used that power to personally alter Obama care and the welfare law, and to “legislate” the Dream Act that Congress refused to pass. But Americans are rising up by the tens of thousands to stop Common Core, which is the current attempt to compel all U.S. children to be taught the same material and not be taught other things parents might think important.

Ever since Congress began pouring federal tax dollars into public schools, parents have been solicitous to have Congress write into law a prohibition against the federal government writing curriculum or lesson plans, or imposing a uniform national curriculum. Parents want those decisions made at the local level by local school boards whom are, or should be, subject to the watchful eyes of local citizens and parents.

Parents are supported in this view by the U.S. Constitution which gives the federal government no power over education. Here is some of the repetitive language included in federal school appropriation laws.

The 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the first federal attempt to regulate and finance schools, stated: “Nothing in this act” shall authorize any federal official to “mandate, direct, or control” school curriculum. The 1970 General Education Provisions Act stipulates that “no provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any” federal agency or official “to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction or selection of instructional materials by any” school system.

The 1979 law that created the Department of Education forbids it to exercise “any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum” or “program of instruction” of any school system. The amended Elementary and Secondary Education Act reiterates that no Education Department funds “may be used … to endorse, approve, or sanction any curriculum designed to be used in” grades K-12.

Despite all those emphatic words Obama’s Department of Education, headed by an alumnus of the Chicago Democratic machine and other leftists, seeks to mold the minds of all our children into supporters of big-government. Their vehicle to accomplish this is Common Core, which is artfully designed to impose de facto national uniformity while complying with all explicit federal prohibitions.

The mechanism of control is the tests that all students must take, which will be written by the people who created Common Core. If students haven’t studied a curriculum “aligned” with Common Core, they will have a hard time passing the tests required for a high school diploma and entry into college.

As explained by education researcher and author Darcy Pattison, the Common Core gang in 1996 gathered a cozy group of rich big businessmen, six governors, and a few other politicians and founded an organization called Achieve Inc. Working backward from the 12th grade down to kindergarten, this eventually morphed into the Common Core State Standards.

Achieve Inc. started implementation of Common Core with 13 states, but a national curriculum was still the goal, and a congressional debate about that would have been a political risk. So the Common Core advocates bypassed most elected officials, went straight to each state department of education, and by 2009, 35 state curriculums had aligned with Common Core.

Common Core advocates then announced that “standards” had been developed “in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts … to prepare our children for college and the workforce.” By 2011, 45 states signed up even though the final draft of the standards was not yet available and they had never been field tested.

Still careful to skirt the laws barring federal control of curriculum, Education Secretary Arne Duncan used federal funds to bait the states to align with Common Core by offering grants from the federally funded Race to the Top program.

The Common Core promoters, whose goal is a national curriculum for all U.S. children despite laws prohibiting the government from requiring it, used the clever device of copyrighting the standards by a non-government organization, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). That enables Common Core advocates to force uniform national standards while claiming that the laws prohibiting federal control of curriculum are not violated.

No one may copy or reprint the standards without permission, and states that sign on to Common Core may not change or modify the standards. The license agreement that states must sign in order to use Common Core states: “NGA/CCSSO shall be acknowledged as the sole owners and developers of the Common Core State Standards.”

On this day, the 5^th Anniversary of the Tea Party Movement and the FCTP’s first rally I say thank you for your continued passion to bring America back to its rightful place.

 

God Bless YOU and may GOD BLESS OUR AMERICA

Leanne

[John A. Beyerle]

Thank you, guys er ladies..

[Leanne King]

Thanks to all for your thoughts and actions.

John, I would be more than happy to send you some information that will help you with the history, and concerns related to the standards, the curriculum, and data mining. I have lots of information but will give you those articles/documents that will provide you with a good introduction. You can also go to Florida Parents Against Common Core,  or the Northeast parents against common core sites. Both have facebook pages as well. The FCTP has a facebook page and it is updated with current CC information on a regular basis.  I am off to a meeting but will send the information to you no later than tomorrow morning. Thank you for your interest. Leanne

[John A. Beyerle]

I have no idea as to what is in Common Core and what isn't. As a retired Biology teacher I would say that there are certain basics that any Biology teacher should teach whether living in Texas or Timbuctu. It is obviously in regard to History, English or the other non-scientific material. People should know what they are against. Is there a place to find out what it is we are protesting. I do agree that teachers are becoming more shackled to a curriculum and testing system that makes it difficult to do much exploration into extra reading & study.

[Jim Burkiewicz]

Greg Evers, R-Pensacola,did a good thing by filing the bill (SB 1316) because he is under a lot of political pressure from the RPOF to stand up for common core. The big problem is RINO Rick Scott will not sign the bill even if it passes the House and Senate.