Posted on 12/10/2009 8:43:53 AM PST by Circle_Hook
Texas and Alaska are the only states not participating in the common standards effort. Scott said Texas is already ahead of the other states in developing tough standards. The U.S. Education Department appears to be "placing its desire for a federal takeover of public education above the interests of the 4.7 million schoolchildren in the state of Texas by setting two different starting lines — one for nearly every other state in the country and one for Texas," Scott wrote last week in a letter to the state's congressional delegation. "Because Texas has chosen to preserve its sovereign authority to determine what is appropriate for Texas children to learn in its public schools," said Scott, "the state is now placed at a serious disadvantage in competing for its share of (the grant money)." That is coercion, Scott said in an interview Wednesday, adding that he could see future federal education dollars being tied to participation in the common standards. Coercion, no; bribery, yes, said Michael Petrilli, vice president for national programs and policy at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank in Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Hey, Texas...it’s simple.
Just stop sending the tax receipts to the federal government for them to redistribute back to you.
Looks like the screwels are not brainwashing enough kids in Texas, so the feds must stage a takeover!
This is even more serious because of the current federal education’s departments direction hiring the pedofile and gay activist Jennings.
Just have them point out the Department of Education in the Constitution.
...and all started by that Texan, George W. (”No Child Left Behind”) Bush.
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