In recent weeks, I have been very much involved in research surrounding the current state of WV’s efforts to climb inside the trap that is called Common Core State Standards (CCSS). CCSS is alleged to be a voluntary state program to standardize the educational curriculum and performance standards among the fifty individual states.
However, early in its development, the Obama Administration seized the opportunity to use the concurrently created Race to the Top program as a hook to suck states into quickly adopting the CCSS by linking that adoption to funding made available by RTTT. No CCSS – No RTTT money. Brilliantly simple and all but five states, including WV, fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
So, what does this have to do with political asylum? Well, I’ll tell you. CCSS is a diabolical effort to set a uniform means of testing and evaluating across all states, but much more. Through it, each state MUST link to a national database containing seriously personal information concerning everything from grades, psych evaluations, religious preference, social security number, etc. However, what is less commonly understood is that the Obama Administration – by-passing Congress through an executive order – altered the interpretation of the Federal Education Resource Protection Act (FERPA) to allow non-government and non-education-related private entities to access education records that are under the control of the Department of Education (which the national database would be). [Read more...]
About Tom Stark
Tom Stark began writing for the Engage Family Minute blog in February 2012. As a small business owner Tom is passionate about the intersection of faith and politics in the life of Christians and the community around him. Having been touched by both the abortion issue and the issue of homosexuality in his own family, Tom is passionate about defending the lives of the unborn and upholding Biblical Truth. Tom also writes for www.westvirginiaconservative.com
One of the hot-button issues facing Washington in the past couple months is “Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR)” Of course, this is a euphemism for providing all of the currently illegal aliens within the borders with immediate and unconditional citizenship and voting rights (the real driving force behind the effort). This effort has been championed for years by our current President.
The liberal left ideology rarely bares its ugly teeth in a candid way. But when it does, it causes common sense people to do a double-take at how brazenly socialistic and anti-freedom it really is. One such time happened last week when MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry told the world that your kids don’t belong to you, but rather than they are “our children” and they “belong to the whole community.”
I received one of a number of newsletters in my email Inbox daily and one hit me as more than just the usual stuff. The headline on the fifth item read:
It is stunning to talk with people that believe same-sex “marriage” is the “end of the line” in the fight to redefine marriage. Unsuspecting or perhaps naïve is the best way to describe such a mentality. To believe that homosexual activists would simply seek to redefine marriage to include their lifestyle, while ignoring all other “alternative lifestyles” is simply absurd. The reality is that same-sex “marriage” is just another step in the process to erase the boundaries of what constitutes marriage and family.
If you watched the Super Bowl this year you were more than likely struck by any number of obvious aspects. Maybe you were annoyed that the Ravens were even there and really hoping they would lose. Or, was that just me? You probably thought the half-time “show” was a pathetic commentary on the low moral standards of our country and didn’t watch more than 5 seconds before leaving the room. And when was the last time the lights went out at a major sporting event like the Super Bowl?
