TED CRUZ, COMMON CORE, HOMESCHOOLING AND HIS PROPOSED S-306 BILL
By Anita Hoge
February 6, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
February 6, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
His
Scary Federal Education “Choice” as a Civil Right, His Fake Repeal of
Common Core, and His Phony Support of Homeschools Revealed.
Ted
Cruz forces Common Core onto every private, religious, and homeschool
in his proposed S 306 with Federal Choice (which is NO choice at all).
Explaining the Disastrous Impact of Ted Cruz's S 306 and His Federal Choice.
• Common
Core sets the stage for ALL children to be identified as “At-Risk” in
public schools under Title I. This is now a given since the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA,
was passed in December. ESSA was a bill sponsored by two establishment
Republicans, Sen. Lamar Alexander and Rep. Kline. A “schoolwide” Title I
banner means that Common Core now covers the entire school, and every
child will receive a blanket of supports, techniques, and interventions
that will force every child into compliance to meet Common Core
standards.
• Sen. Ted Cruz's S 306 uses these Title I school-wide federal funds to identifyand follow the child.
S 306 expands “portable” funding to every child, which means they will
take “public school choice” with them into any private or religious
school. This means every child is “At-Risk or becoming At-Risk” of not
meeting Common Core. This baggage then goes with the child into that
private or religious school. This baggage includes psychological
supports and interventions carried out by IDEA (Individual With Disabilitites Education Act), which is the Special Education behavioral conditioning for all students to meet Common Core non-academic standards.
• Sen.
Ted Cruz’s S 306 Federal so-called “Choice” funds are “portable,”
meaning a Title I child takes his/her funds with them to any school. The “portable” funds “follow the child.” This means that schools will no longer be funded as they have been in the past. Rather, children are funded.
This eliminates zip codes as a destination for a better local school.
“Equitable” funding means schools will “spread the Common Core wealth
around” and that all schools must be the same.
• The
“portable” funds following the child amount to a “micro-voucher” for
every child. This is used as a backpack of funds which includes a per pupil expenditureso
that every child receives an equal amount of money. An algorithm is
designed by the Federal IES, Institute for Educational Science, to
determine regional “equity.” Federal, state, and local funds combined
are deposited into an education savings account, called an ESA, used for
school tuition and Common Core services at any school or even
online. The State decides what is qualified as Common Core and aligns
all curriculum with Common Core. The State is the overseer of
this federal financial assistance accountability. Thus “choice,” in
essence, is no choice, just Common Core in any school for every child.
• Sen.
Ted Cruz’s S 306 appears to eliminate the church/state controversy when
the funds “follow the child.” The “portable” micro-vouchers are given
to parents to use in any private and religious school that accept
Title I children with their allotted micro-voucher in hand. Schools do
not receive money from the government, but receive the money from
parents. So it deceptively looks like parental freedom of “choice.” But
it is not.
• Sen. Ted Cruz redefines a homeschool as a private school, thereby forcing homeschooled children to come under the federal Title I net which
mandates Common Core. A homeschool can set up a micro-voucher ESA,
education savings account, and collect the same federal, state, and
local funds to use to teach their child/children Common Core. Or use an
ESA in any public, charter, private, religious school, or online class
which must align to Common Core.
• Sen. Ted Cruz eliminates the cap on ESA's in order to accept ALL funds that mandate services AND support interventions to meet Common Core. These services and supports are used in order to make sure that every child's personalized career
pathway conforms to Common Core. The government micro-voucher, which
becomes substantial by including ALL funds, are deposited into this
Lifelong Learning ESA backpack. This wide array of funds is the carrot
for parents to support what they think is Choice, but no one explains to
parents that there is Common Core baggage attached to the funds. This
personalized plan is NOT for your child to reach his/her potential, but
only to acquire Common Core standards!
• Services, supports, and interventions are defined, funded and carried out under IDEA, special education. ALL children
get the same Common Core poison including the controversial
psychological/behavioral treatment. You see, Common Core measures and
scores non-academic government-prescribed attitudes, values, beliefs,
and dispositions. A student must meet these pre-determined psychological
outcomes. Psych interventions are defined as: positive behavior
intervention and supports, multi-tiered and school-wide tiered system of
supports, response to intervention, early intervening supports, and
universal design for learning. These are all mandated in federal
legislation, the Republican establishment’s ESSA. Mental health
psychological coding is a must for reimbursement of funding treatment.
• Sen. Ted Cruz changes 529 plans to accept all children from birth up to age 21, or the entire Common Core/Mental Health/Healthcare P-20 agenda.
529 plans are converted into Lifelong Learning micro-vouchers,
deposited into ESA backpacks. Cruz's Federal “Choice” will fund Common
Core/Mental Health for ALL children. including free universal Pre-K,
free federal “choice” in any elementary and secondary school, and 2 free
years of community or vocational college. Lifelong Learning
micro-voucher backpacks will extend the entire school life of a child
until age 21. This mimics the same socialized education/healthcare
proposal from President Obama's State of the Union Address!
• THE
DREADFUL IMPACT OF SEN. TED CRUZ'S CHOICE: Local taxes will no longer
support your neighborhood local public school when “follow the child
funding” is directed to multiple schools through so-called choice. What
happens to your local public school where you have duly-elected
representative school board members who are accountable to citizens in
your district? This whole plan collapses the traditional public school and your elected school board.
When your neighborhood public school goes financially bankrupt or
Common Core bankrupt, your locally collected school taxes will be
regionalized or redirected for a State takeover. Charter schools, that
have no elected representative boards, were expanded in the federal
education Reauthorization of ESEA (the ESSA) and replace “failing”
public schools. State departments of education become more powerful.
This is all playing into the false “abolishment of the US Department of
Education” mantra which appeals to conservatives who don’t truly
understand this insidious agenda.
• It
gets worse. The entire Common Core/Mental Health agenda ties into
ObamaCare for all children birth to age 21. All psychological services
carried out by IDEA and rendered to children can be billed to Medicaid,
where schools become providers for health and mental health services. Mental health codesfollow
every child, thus potentially adversely impacting your child’s future
jobs, college, and licensing (including gun ownership).
• Under
this plan ALL schools become chartered and accredited including
private, religious, and homeschools, by the state charter authorizing
agency which mandates Common Core accountability. Representative
government is thereby dissolved. Your taxes no longer subsidize your
local education. Education becomes nationalized, i.e. federalized. Parents are locked out. There is no choice.
• This is the SCARY “civil rights” Common Core agenda that Sen. Ted Cruz supports. He stated, “every child in America, regardless of race or ethnicity, wealth or zip code has the right to a quality education,” and his federal school choice amounts to federal control. This mandates the Common Core nightmare to every child in the United States.
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