Last week, Glenn Beck assembled a group of education experts and grassroots activists in Dallas for a two hour show designed to highlight the flaws of Common Core--and suggest ways activists can fight its implementation. The live show was simulcasted in over seven hundred movie theaters nationwide. A replay of the event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 29th. I had the opportunity to interview four people connected with We Will Not Conform. We discussed the show, Common Core and the fight to stop it. I sat down with:
Joseph Kerry; Chief of Staff, The Glenn Beck Program
Matt Kibbe; President and CEO of FreedomWorks
Dana Loesch; Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host
Michelle Malkin; Blogger, nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author Read more here...
2. We Will Not Conform: Portrait of a Home School Family
We will not conform. We will not conform. We will not conform. No, it isn't a chant or a mantra. It's a statement of fact. Something that we as grassroots activists should be used to by now. How about another group of folks who could be considered full-time protesters? Another group of people who might be used to not conforming for even longer than the tea party groups have been around. How about a group of dedicated home schoolers? This is the portrait of a home school mom and dad.
The home school moms and dads are those parents who decided to throw off the yolk of traditional education and have already chosen not to conform. They decided to keep their children at home, for whatever reason; but no matter if you publicly educate your children or privately educate them, we all ultimately want a well-educated child. Read more here...
3. Capitol Hill Update, July 28, 2014
House & Senate/Schedule: The House and Senate are both in session through Thursday. Their August recess begins on Friday and continues until September 8th.
Legislative Highlight of the Week: The Senate is likely to take up the House-passed bill to bail out the structurally insolvent Highway Trust Fund, H.R. 5021. The plan would raise about $10 billion to fund the Trust Fund through May 2015, relying mostly upon budget gimmicks to pretend to pay for the new spending. An agreement was reached last week to vote on several amendments to this bill, including Senator Mike Lee’s amendment to gradually return highway spending directly to the states. FreedomWorks has issued a Key Vote in favor of Lee’s amendment and against the overall bill if the amendment does not pass. Read more here...
4. Empower Takes on the NAACP Convention
For two years, the NAACP has denied black conservatives a seat at the table and an opportunity to offer a fresh perspective on the many issues facing America's black community today. Rather than representing the interests of black Americans, the NAACP has become little more than an arm of the Democratic Party, committed to carrying water for the president and his allies, and ignoring the problems that really matter.
That's why, on July 21, 2014, FreedomWorks was proud to host a panel of black conservatives just outside the NAACP's Las Vegas convention. There, FreedomWorks Director of Outreach Deneen Borelli, along with some of the country's leading black activists, gathered to discuss the three Es of empowerment: Education, Employment, and Energy. While there were those who tried to silence us and prevent our message from being heard, we persevered, having what we hope to be the first of many national conversations on how black Americans can take their country back from the policies and politicians who have sold them down the river, again and again. Watch here...
5. Community Essential to Help Neighbors
Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed combining many of our Federal welfare programs and allowing States to administer these programs on a local level. Importantly, Ryan encourages private companies, non-government organizations and local governments to be actively involved in administrating these programs. Ryan’s “Opportunity Grant” gives communities the opportunity to holistically assist our unfortunate neighbors, and he is proposing an enormous policy shift from Federal control to the State overseeing them...and potentially local control.
The Klamath Falls, Oregon example:
After observing an increase in anti-social behavior happening in many of our public places – schools, grocery stores, churches, parks restaurants and more - a voluntary group of twelve people from different occupations, faiths and interests began meeting to understand the causes of why so many people were in need of help. We held numerous meetings with public and private officials of government, schools, churches and charities. We became aware of the serious societal problems of Klamath County – teenage births, children living in single parent households, absent fathers, alcohol and drug abuse, inadequate job skills, poor work ethic, and more. Tragically, single parenting was the biggest issue we found in Klamath County and is also destroying America’s children on a national scale. In fact, one-third of American children are not living in a two-parent home. Read more here...
In Liberty,
Jackie Bodnar
Director of Communications, FreedomWorks
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