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Common Core and the Bill Gates Foundation vs George Will
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Posted on 12/24/2014 4:24:28 AM PST by dennisw

Common Core and the Bill Gates Foundation and George Will

You know it is awful when cautious and moderate conservative George Will is against you because Common Core is just another Federal power grab. My reasons for being against Common Core are:

  1. The Federal Department of Education is highly affirmative action as in employment preferences being given to liberals, lefties, militant women, gays, blacks, minorities/ I don't like it when these fanatics are running the show.
  2. The various States are always more fair on such hiring practices
  3. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is really the Melinda Gates Foundation. She calls the shots
  4. She is hyper liberal and took the lazy way out by going to the Federal Govt fo develop higher educational standards

 

  1. The fair way to accomplish this would have been to fund the 50 states directly to develop better educational standards
  2. Also with funding to the 3000+ counties in America so they could develop input to the State processes
  3. Because - After all, in most states education is paid for via our county wide property taxes.
  4. But the Feds have a hammer at their disposal
  5. That States that do not adopt Common Core will have Federal Educational funds withheld. Though there is a process that is developing that States can opt out if they develop their own higher standards, but subject to Federal Dept of Education review
  6. -
  7. BTW are you aware that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has the Millennial Scholars Fund that is a one billion dollar college scholarship fund. That white students are excluded from? Only minorities can apply. A racist outrage and shows the Bill and Melinda mindset

 


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http://dailysignal.com/2014/05/06/watch-george-will-demolishes-arguments-common-core-two-minutes/
1 posted on 12/24/2014 4:24:28 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

http://dailysignal.com/2014/05/06/watch-george-will-demolishes-arguments-common-core-two-minutes/

May 5th 2014
GEORGE WILL:

Conservative pundit George Will delivered a fierce attack on Common Core last night, characterizing the educational standards as a way for progressives to further promote their political views.

“This is a thin end of an enormous wedge of federal power that will be wielded for the constant progressive purpose of concentrating power in Washington so that it can impose continental solutions to problems nationwide,” Will said on Fox News’ “Special Report.”

He also warned Americans that the federal standards posed a significant threat to local autonomy.

“The advocates of the Common Core say, if you like local control of your schools, you can keep it, period. If you like your local curriculum you can keep it, period, and people don’t believe them for very good reasons,” Will remarked.


2 posted on 12/24/2014 4:26:04 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

George Will: Doubts over Common Core won’t be easily dismissed
January 15 2014

Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth out of the sea, no larger than a man’s hand. Soon, however, this education policy will fill a significant portion of the political sky.

The Common Core represents the ideas of several national organizations (of governors and school officials) about what and how children should learn. It is the thin end of an enormous wedge. It is designed to advance in primary and secondary education the general progressive agenda of centralization and uniformity.

Understandably, proponents of the Common Core want its nature and purpose to remain as cloudy as possible for as long as possible. Hence they say it is a “state-led,” “voluntary” initiative to merely guide education with “standards” that are neither written nor approved nor mandated by Washington, which would never, ever “prescribe” a national curriculum. Proponents talk warily when describing it because a candid characterization would reveal yet another Obama administration indifference to legality.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-doubts-over-common-core-wont-be-easily-dismissed/2014/01/15/68cecb88-7df3-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html?hpid=z5


3 posted on 12/24/2014 4:27:44 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Common with what, no one seems to know.


4 posted on 12/24/2014 9:09:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: dennisw

Islam is being taught in US schools through common core-See list of recent reports of Islam in schools here MA, MS, MD, TN, CA, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3227490/posts?page=19#19

Why Did Hundreds of Common Core Implementers Meet in Dubai?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3222449/posts
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/why-did-hundreds-common-core-implementers-meet-in-dubai/

The big secret = Common Core is the indoctrination of Global Marxism!!!!

Common Core Not State Led – Here’s Proof
http://www.redstate.com/diary/littletboca/2014/10/24/common-core-state-led-heres-proof/


5 posted on 12/24/2014 9:33:32 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Oh, and the Gates Foundation “no longer” funds abortion, guess they didn’t like the public exposure on that one.


6 posted on 02/28/2015 11:16:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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