April 25, 2024

Parents Sue School for Forcing Daughter to ‘Convert’ to Islam

Parents in Maryland are suing public school administrators over concerns that a classroom lesson attempted to indoctrinate their daughter into the Islamic faith. In an incredible lawsuit filed in US district court last week, Melissa Wood and her husband John Wood, an eight-year US Marine Corps veteran, claim the La Plata Public School violated the […]

Edu Sec’y: Test Scores Embarrassing Because Schools ‘Retooling’ to Common Core

 U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. explains that the just-released dismal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results need to be viewed in light of the seven years of “significant changes” in America’s classrooms due to the Common Core standards. Calling for “patience” as schools continue to implement the “new and higher […]

Movement to ‘Opt Out’ of Standardized Testing Slow To Grow in Miami-Dade Schools

Across the country, parents students and teachers protest high-stakes testing by boycotting them But numbers are low in Florida and Miami-Dade Supporters say they need union support and to appeal to minorities Ceresta Smith poses with a movie bill for “Standardized,” a 2013 documentary about the adverse effects of standardized testing, on Thursday, April 21, […]

The Re-Education Camps We Call Universities

The totalitarian attitude on campus hit me in a very personal way on March 30 as I was sitting on an airplane at Reagan National Airport on my way to Albany, New York. I was informed that a campus debate I was scheduled to participate in later that day had been cancelled. I was told […]

Department Of Education – Our Work Here Is Done

It appears a few children were left behind. The Department of Education was created in 1979 and now has an annual budget of $73 billion, with 5,000 government bureaucrats roaming its hallways. When you include all Federal, State and Local spending on public education it totals about $700 billion per year, or $13,000 per student. […]

REPORT: Common Core A Part of Leftist Centralized Education Plan

The Common Core standards initiative is part of the progressive push to centralize education, says the Heritage Foundation in a new report – a compilation of essays by experts in education policy in the United States. Lindsey Burke, a Heritage Foundation education fellow, introduces the report with a summary of how the Common Core initiative […]

Collier Schools Failing Our Children?

Collier County Schools Vision Statement- “All students will complete school prepared…for community and global responsibilities.” In 2004, UNESCO collaborated with the Gates Foundation developing standards for a global ‘master curriculum’. These were promoted in America as Common Core through the National Governor’s Association (a lobbying group) and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Last […]

Embrace Change and Create a New Educational Standard

The days of sending our children off to the “experts” with faith that they will learn life skills and gain academic training are over! Family life is in flux, and we parents have been caught off guard. After four generations of a systematic approach to life, in which kids go off to school and parents […]

Pro-jihad hatemonger addresses Catholic school kids in Florida

Despite the continuing Muslim genocide of Christians in the Middle East and Africa, American Catholic leaders continue not only to turn a blind eye to jihad terror and the persecution of their fellow Christians, but are actively aiding and abetting the forces that are persecuting them. Last month, the entire student body of St. Petersburg […]

GOP Senate Confirms Obama’s Pro-Common Core Education Secretary

Obama’s nominee to finish fundamentally transforming “education” in America has been approved by the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate, despite the pleas of Americans from across the political spectrum. Apparently the establishment wing of the Republican Party just cannot help itself when it comes to surrendering to Obama — even on so-called “education” and the minds of […]

FBI Instructs High Schools to Inform On “Anti-government” Students

A new FBI initiative based on Britain’s “anti-terror” mass surveillance program instructs high schools across America to inform on students who express “anti-government” and “anarchist” political beliefs. “High school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists seeking support for their radical ideologies, foreign fighter networks, or conducting acts of targeted violence within our […]

D.C. Leaders Look to Communist Cuba for “Education Successes”

If you have children in government schools in or around the nation’s capital city, beware. Not only are the D.C. government schools mass producing illiterate graduates, top officials and education bureaucrats from Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia are looking to a mass-murdering communist dictatorship for help and ideas in reforming those schools. Seriously. But despite […]

Illegal Aliens Will Now Be Allowed To Teach America’s Kids

“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.” Deut. 28:43-44 Such is the warning to a disobedient people, and America […]

COMMUNISM’S ASSAULT ON INTELLECT – MASS INDOCTRINATION

Update Brazil, Episode 21: “Communism’s Assault on Intellect”, hosted by Jeff Nyquist and Allan Dos Santos. The guest is Robin Eubanks, author of Credentialed to Destroy. A discussion on how Communist’s devised new principles of education are used to disable critical thinking and prepare the way for mass indoctrination. UPDATE BRAZIL is a weekly program […]

ALERT: FEDS SEEK HOME VISITS, CALLING PARENTS “EQUAL PARTNERS”

Big Brother wants to be an “equal partner” with American parents in the raising of their own children, starting before they are even born. He wants to send his agents to your house for “home visits,” too. Believe it or not, two powerful arms of Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. […]

Feds Push New Plan For Home Visits to Check on Parents

The federal government is seeking to create a new bureaucracy that would intervene in family life and could even see state-appointed monitors conduct routine home visits to assess a child’s well-being. The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published adraft documentwhich outlines a plan that will […]

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT COMMON CORE FROM EDUCATION EXPERT DR. DUKE PESTA

“Common Core is a Trojan Horse. It is an ideological conduit into our schools.  At its core, it is an anti-truth curriculum. At its core, it is antithetical to what traditional Catholic education stands for.” — Dr. Duke Pesta TFP Student Action: Could you please give some background information about yourself and your education? Dr. Duke Pesta: For the last […]

FBI: ‘Necessary to Take Action’ Against Oregon Standoff Holdouts

  An FBI agent stands guard at Burns Municipal Airport, Ore., on Feb. 5, 2016, as four armed occupiers remained at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa via AP Images) The FBI moved in on the four holdouts at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on the 40th day of occupation, […]

Ted Cruz Predicts That the Race for the Republican Nomination Is Now Just Between Him and Donald Trump

According to Ted Cruz, the fight for the 2016 Republican nomination is now just a two-man race: billionaire businessman Donald Trump and himself. The Texas senator’s comments came Wednesday morning during an interview on “The Mike Gallagher Radio Show.” Cruz’s evidence: the fact that he and Trump were the top Republicans in Iowa and New […]

UNSAFE SPACES

Why colleges are leaving so many students angry, indoctrinated, degraded, depressed and broke. Americans are understandably alarmed at the hordes of “migrants” and “refugees” streaming into this country, many steeped in worldviews profoundly opposed to Western, democratic values, and thus not only unlikely to assimilate, but even posing a danger to the nation. But what […]

Common Core: Based on UN Agenda 21, UNESCO Standards

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has a program called “Education for All” that includes the same people and same ideas as Common Core. The Global Fund for Education was formulated by the UN, “agreed to” by Barack Obama, funded by Bill Gates, and Common Core was imposed on the American people through […]

A Failing Grade for Common Core

According to Professor Kenneth Calvert, Common Core, well-intentioned from the beginning, will utterly fail its students. Rather than raising the educational standard in the United States, it codifies and federally enforces mediocrity. Worse yet, in regulating education the federal government has overstepped its constitutional boundaries, by attempting to control teaching methods, preventing teachers from exercising […]

Ted Cruz: ‘We Should Repeal Every Word of Common Core’

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97% spoke out against Common Core during a speech to a Florida conservative organization. “We should repeal every word of Common Core,” he said. “We should get the federal government out of the business of curriculum.” This was not the first time Cruz said “no” to Common Core, but it was […]

Former Pearson Exec Reveals Anti-American Agenda in Common Core

A former marketing executive for textbook publishing giant Pearson Education reveals the anti-American agenda behind Common Core and the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework in the third video of a series produced by Project Veritas and focused on the corporate cronyism behind the education reform known as Common Core. Kim Koerber, a former Pearson executive […]

OBAMA AND GOP UNLEASH “COMMUNITY SCHOOLS” TO REPLACE PARENTS

Parents, beware — Big Brother is coming for your kids. Buried deep inside the mammoth “bipartisan” so-called “education” legislation approved last month, dubbed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), is a radical expansion of what the statute refers to as “full-service community schools.” The controversial institutions, more accurately described as parental replacement centers, seek to […]

UNDERCOVER COMMON CORE VIDEO: Executive Says “I Hate Kids, It’s All About The Money

Video of c8tZGl1SVs0 James O’Keefe, president and founder of Project Veritas, released a powerful and troubling new video today showing a regional sales executive at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the country’s leading textbook publishers and profiteers of Common Core admitting that Common Core is all about the money. In this new video, Project Veritas […]

Cardinal Wuerl: Firing Employees Opposed to Church Teaching Protects Mission of Catholic Schools

Catholic schools have “an obligation” to terminate employees who actively oppose Church teaching and whose conduct “undermines the Church’s ability to fulfill her mission,” Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C., recently wrote in a blog post addressing the firing of a Church employee found to be in a same-sex marriage. “The purpose of our parishes, […]

FLORIDA ACTION ALERT: HELP PASS BILL TO INFLUENCE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

URGE K-12  COMMITTEES TO SUPPORT SB 1018 AND COMPANION HB 899 Bottom line: We had an awesome team in Tallahassee last week. We met with 63 legislators and delivered packages to all 160 legislators, urging them to co-sponsor and support these curriculum companion bills. The packages included examples of specific objectionable books containing pornography, political […]

Deliberately Deceiving The Public On Common Core

 On Nov. 17, 2015, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted not to move forward with the PARCC test (a national Common Core-based test) and instead to adopt a “hybrid” test called MCAS 2.0. Although it was widely reported that Massachusetts had dumped Common Core, the move by the Board was, in fact, […]

BEAR WITNESS CENTRAL SUPPORTS FLORIDA BILLS TO RESTORE LOCAL K-12 EDUCATION CONTROL

Bear Witness Central supports Florida Bills SB1018/HB899 and Florida Citizens Alliance diligent work on both  comprehensive bills to restore local K-12 education control and a focused curriculum to fix the loopholes in SB 864, passed in 2014 as FS 1006.283. SB1018/HB899 Bills provide needed criteria to assess adequacy of instructional materials given the parent’s right […]

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