Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) Jan. 22, 2015
Now is the most important time to stop the federal overreach
in American schools. Please *write your
U.S. Congressional Rep. and your U.S. Senator to support Senator Roberts bill
to forbid the federal government from intruding in America's schools*. Here is our chance to stop Common Core
Standards and, hopefully, anti-American APUSH (new Advanced
Placement U.S. History) framework which started this pass fall. This is the best way to stop federal
overreach by stopping it from the top down.
Many states are fighting Common Core Standards but this would be a
faster and better approach by passing a U.S. Congressional bill.
Please send this email on to your contacts*. this is
something that you can do. The future of our students, their parents, teachers
and taxpayers, which have to pay for all this extra expense, will be
improved. We must have local input and
accountability, not standards from far-away
unaccountable bureaucrats looking to make money and control
our lives.
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Roberts Introduces LOCAL Level Act
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) introduced a bill, the
Learning Opportunities Created At the Local (LOCAL) Level Act on Friday last
week that would forbid the federal government from intervening in a state’s
education standards, curricula, and assessments through the use of incentives,
mandates, grants, waivers or any other form of manipulation.
Roberts was joined in introducing the bill by U.S. Senators
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio). Roberts, a member of the Senate Committee on
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
will fight to include this legislation in the committee’s
consideration of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act.
“Setting high standards for our schools, our teachers and
our children is the right thing to do, but those standards should be decided in
Kansas, without bribes or mandates from Washington,” Roberts said. “We need to
get the federal government out of the classroom, and return community decisions
back to where they belong – in the community.”
“Decisions about what content students should be taught have
enormous consequences for children and so should be made as close as possible
to the affected parents and students,” Grassley said. “Federal interference in this
area disrupts the direct line of accountability between parents and
those making decisions about their children’s
education. It also takes away needed
flexibility from state education leaders to make changes as they learn more
about what works and what does not. As I
have before, I plan to urge the Appropriations Committee to include language
blocking
funding for the Administration’s overreach in this
area. In the meantime, I’ll continue to
work with Senator Roberts to ensure that the law is amended to stop such
overreach permanently.”
“The best education is the one that is shaped by parents and
local leaders who know first-hand the children and communities their standards
and goals impact,” Inhofe said. “This legislation reins in big government
regulations being issued by the Department of Education and returns education
decisions back to the parents, teachers, and local leaders who are on the front
lines of advancing our children’s future. With more than 660,000 children enrolled
in public schools across Oklahoma, it is pivotal we ensure that state and local
school boards continue to have the authority needed to carry out education
policy decisions.”
“Decisions about education curriculum should be made at the
local or state level – not from Washington,” Portman stated. “Having a
one-size-fits-all Washington approach to education is harmful to our children
and to our education system. We should allow states and local communities the flexibility
to innovate and make their own education decisions. The federal government does
have a key supporting role to play in improving our workforce, and I have led
efforts to streamline and improve our worker retraining programs while giving
states additional flexibility.”
Roberts’ efforts to permanently prohibit the
Administration’s interference with state education decisions through
authorization language have been complemented by Senator Grassley’s efforts to
address the problem through
the appropriations process.
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