CREDIT: FLORIDA STOP COMMON CORE COALITION

REPORT ON HOUSE VOTE:
Sadly, the hugely bureaucratic FedEd ESEA bill, now called the Every Student Succeeds Act, S 1177 passed the US House by a vote of 359-64. All 64 no votes were Republicans. Thank you very much to all who visited, called, tweeted, emailed, messaged, and faxed. We are very grateful to Florida Representatives Curt Clawson, Ron DeSantis, Jeff Miller, and Ted Yoho for their wise and principled no votes. Here is the full roll call: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll665.xml. Please see HERE for details, but here is one clip from floor debate that absolutely crystallizes that the appalling purpose of Common Core that is cemented into this bill is psychological manipulation and profiling of our kids:

It also appears that the reason this bill was rammed through after a holiday with only two days for the public to review final language of this 1061 page monstrosity was to try to help Jeb Bush's imploding presidential campaign before Iowa.  See HERE for more analysis on why taking credit for this boondoggle will not help:

http://www.flstopcccoalition.org/news/2015-12/jebfailsed-ramming-th...

ACTION YOU CAN TAKE FOR THE SENATE VOTE ON 12/8: 

The likely final Senate vote will be Tuesday 12/8. There is a new Twitter Action Page for this upcoming vote.  There are preloaded tweets for Republicans & Democrats! All you have to do is hit the buttons! Please tweet the Senate DAILY from now until then:

 http://patriotjournalist.com/StopESEAAction.php?v=2 

Also, please call Monday at 202-224-3121 & demand a NO vote on S 1177! Specific phone numbers, FB pages etc. are available at:

 http://patriotjournalist.com/usSenate.php?src=Home

For Florida's Senators, here are phone numbers and Twitter handles:

Senator Marco Rubio   202-224-3041 @SenRubioPress
Senator Bill Nelson 202-224-5274   @SenBillNelson 

Here are the basic talking points in red:

The federal education bill gives hollow protections against federal interference. (If they ask or try to tell you otherwise, you can give them these with details at the first link below)
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 The secretary of education has veto power over the state plans that are still required to have statewide standards and assessments.

• The language of the bill itself puts forth many requirements for the types of standards that must be in the state plans, so it is essentially irrelevant what the secretary does or does not do.
• The language of the bill itself requires that standards align with ELEVEN different federal statutes that will make it likely that states have to keep the Common Core standards or those like them, even if they call them something else
• .The language prohibiting federal interference is essentially the same in statutes that Secretary Duncan ignored to give us Common Core and waivers.  Then and now, there is no enforcement mechanism.

For more details on these first two points see this summary regarding standards and assessments with specific language citations from the American Principles Project. Also see the video above if anyone needs proof.

http://truthinamericaneducation.com/elementary-and-secondary-educat...
 

The bill also contains a new preschool program expanding the effort to create a "Baby Common Core." Here is a link to a one page summary by Dr. Effrem on preschool with specific citations:

http://truthinamericaneducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ESEA...
 

Below is a more detailed list of 12 reasons to vote against this bill:

 http://truthinamericaneducation.com/elementary-and-secondary-educat...

Here is a rebuttal of the US House Education and Workforce Committee talking points:

 http://www.flstopcccoalition.org/blog/rebuttal-us-house-ed-committe...

Karen R. Effrem, MD 

Executive Director

The Florida Stop Common Core Coalition

www.flstopcccoalition.org

888-376-5550

“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” - Agatha Christie