Oppose Obama's Race to the Top Education Program
The Race to the Top (RTTT) is a competitive grant program that pushes
Obama's comprehensive education reform package and its dictates onto school
districts that volunteer to be grant recipients. For many school districts that
have already suffered financial cutbacks, the temptation to sign up and forego
local oversight in exchange for a subsidy and mandates is great indeed.
President Obama is set to ask Congress for an additional $1.35 billion to
expand the program, with one senior official saying, "you could envision this
going on until we felt like we've made significant progress across the country."
The Race to the Top is, in reality, a program that would centralize
education further than it already is, taking control away from local elected
school boards and the state, placing it squarely under the dictates of the
federal government via a national curricula, standardized testing, longer
school days, a closer partnering with community-based organizations for
expanded influence, expanded database systems, and added emphasis on students'
emotional and social development along with their personal health care.
Meaningful reform will happen only after we abandon the assembly line,
one-size-fits-none pedagogy and return to the true basics of education
controlled by elected school boards with parental input at the local level.
Contact your representative and senators in Congress today and insist
that they refrain from further funding RTTT. Also contact your state
legislators and your state governor, letting them know that withdrawal from
federal money and control is the only solution to retaining any amount of local
determination in educational matters. Then you can engage your local school
board members in a discussion to help educate them on the issue, alerting them
to the dangers of the unbreakable chains that come with federal money.
Thank you,
Your friends at the John Birch Society
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