Common Core - Jindal Lawsuit

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal sues federal government over Common Core by Pamela Geller

Bravo!  I have writ­ten on the islamiza­tion of pub­lic school cur­ricu­lum via Com­mon Core.

Free­dom Out­post: Com­mon Core Islamic indoc­tri­na­tion of stu­dents in Amer­i­can schools is overt. This is the goal. In Volu­sia County Florida, hun­dreds are protest­ing the ode to Islam that is “World His­tory,” a Com­mon Core approved high school his­tory text­book. With an entire chap­ter ded­i­cated to the virtues of Islam, and not a sin­gle chap­ter for Chris­tian­ity, the text­book has Florid­i­ans in a frenzy. And who is the biggest pusher of Com­mon Cores besides left­ist pro­gres­sives? The Islamic Soci­ety of North Amer­ica, another Mus­lim Broth­er­hood front group, along with Hamas-CAIR; and in Florida, Hamas-CAIR is on the offensive.

The con­tro­versy started unrav­el­ing after a 15-year-old Del­tona high school stu­dent showed her mom her 10th-grade his­tory book, which has an entire chap­ter ded­i­cated to Islam but none of the other world religions.

A con­ser­v­a­tive activist went to Face­book, call­ing for a cur­ricu­lum over­haul, and nearly 200 activists are plan­ning a protest at tomorrow’s Volu­sia County School Board meeting.

“The prob­lem is: there needs to be bal­ance. In Amer­ica today, Chris­tian­ity is being rel­e­gated to the trash heap. Why rel­e­gate Chris­tian­ity to a foot­note in an entire his­tory book, and you give an entire chap­ter on the teach­ings of Islam? “Dis­trict 2 Del­tona com­mis­sioner Web­ster Barn­aby said.

But it’s much more than that. Michelle Malkin described Com­mon Core this way, “Com­mon Core’s dubi­ous ‘col­lege– and career’-ready stan­dards under­mine local con­trol of edu­ca­tion, usurp state auton­omy over cur­ric­u­lar mate­ri­als, and foist untested, mediocre and inco­her­ent ped­a­gog­i­cal the­o­ries on America’s schoolchildren.”

Ze’ev Wur­man, a promi­nent soft­ware archi­tect, elec­tri­cal engi­neer and long­time math advi­sory expert in Cal­i­for­nia and Wash­ing­ton, D.C., said of Com­mon Core;

“I believe the Com­mon Core marks the ces­sa­tion of edu­ca­tional stan­dards improve­ment in the United States. No state has any rea­son left to aspire for first-rate stan­dards, as all states will be judged by the same mediocre national bench­mark enforced by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment. More­over, there are orga­ni­za­tions that have rea­sons to work for lower and less-demanding stan­dards, specif­i­cally teach­ers unions and pro­fes­sional teacher orga­ni­za­tions. While they may not admit it, they have a vested inter­est in low­er­ing the account­abil­ity bar for their mem­bers. …This will be done in the name of ‘crit­i­cal think­ing’ and ’21st-century’ skills, and in far­away Wash­ing­ton, D.C., well beyond the reach of par­ents and most states and employers.”

Bravo to Jindal.  “Louisiana Gov. Jin­dal sues fed­eral gov­ern­ment over Com­mon Core,” FOX News, August 28, 2014

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jin­dal filed a law­suit against the Obama admin­is­tra­tion in fed­eral court Wednes­day, claim­ing that the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion has ille­gally manip­u­lated grant money and reg­u­la­tions to force states to adopt the con­tro­ver­sial Com­mon Core standards.

In the suit, Jin­dal argues that the Edu­ca­tion Department’s $4.3 bil­lion grant pro­gram “effec­tively forces states down a path toward a national cur­ricu­lum” in vio­la­tion of the state sov­er­eignty clause in the Con­sti­tu­tion and fed­eral laws that pro­hibit national con­trol of edu­ca­tion con­tent. The suit asks a judge to declare the department’s actions uncon­sti­tu­tional and to keep it from dis­qual­i­fy­ing states from receiv­ing Race to the Top funds based on a refusal to use Com­mon Core or to par­tic­i­pate in one of two state test­ing con­sor­tia tied to the department’s grant program.

The legal chal­lenge puts Jin­dal, who is con­sid­er­ing a 2016 pres­i­den­tial bid, at the fore­front of a dis­pute between con­ser­v­a­tives and Pres­i­dent Barack Obama, bol­ster­ing the governor’s pro­file on the issue as he’s try­ing to court con­ser­v­a­tive vot­ers nationwide.

“The fed­eral gov­ern­ment has hijacked and destroyed the Com­mon Core ini­tia­tive,” Jin­dal said in a state­ment. “Com­mon Core is the lat­est effort by big gov­ern­ment dis­ci­ples to strip away state rights and put Wash­ing­ton, D.C., in con­trol of everything.”

The Com­mon Core stan­dards are math and Eng­lish bench­marks describ­ing what stu­dents should know after com­plet­ing each grade. They were devel­oped by states to allow com­par­i­son of stu­dents’ per­for­mance. More than 40 states, includ­ing Louisiana, have adopted them.

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  Source: http://agenda21news.com/2014/08/louisiana-gov-bobby-jindal-sues-federal-government-common-core/#more-2567 Posted on August 28, 2014 Written by Pamela Geller, DCClothesline