SIGN
ON TO END COMMON CORE
Join
American Principles Project, Eagle Forum, HSLDA, Pioneer Institute, Michelle
Malkin and others urging Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, Chair of the National
Governors Association, to end the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Through this initiative the NGA has enabled corporations and other private
interests to drive education policy which has compromised the power of parents.
So we are asking parents, educators and concerned citizens to add their names
with ours in order to stop the Common Core State
Standards.
May 5,
2014
Governor Mary
Fallin
Dear Governor
Fallin:
We write to you in your capacity as
governor of Oklahoma and as the chair of the
National Governors Association and its affiliate the NGA Center for Best Practices (together,
“NGA”). In particular, we write to you about NGA’s activities with regard to
the national Common Core Standards system.
As set forth
in the Joint
Statement Regarding the National Governors
Association’s Common Core Standards Initiative
and the Constitutional Structure, NGA’s
activities, including its ownership, development and propagation of the Common
Core, have caused profound harm to our constitutional structure. NGA has
enabled corporations and other private interests to drive education policy and,
concomitantly, compromised the power of parents. It has enlisted the power of
the federal government to bring about these changes and, in so doing, has
weakened the power of states to defend the authority and rights of parents and
other citizens.
More
specifically, NGA has assisted the federal government in employing a strategy
against the states that has divided and conquered the state checks and balances
that are intended to guard against federal overreach. It has presided over the
development of math standards that lock children into a defective education, one
that does not prepare children for studies in science, technology, engineering,
and math (STEM) or for admission to competitive public and private
universities. It has presided over the development of English standards that
fail to prepare children for authentic college work in the humanities and that
weaken the formation of strong citizen-leaders and individuals of substance who
are fully capable of exercising their liberties.
The pushback
against the Common Core rests on parents’ love for their children and their
defense of the Constitution that protects their rights to form their children
and direct their education. It is a movement based on truth, and on highly
informed citizens –citizens who follow in the footsteps of the Founders. It is
a movement that continues to grow and which will be
victorious.
We
respectfully ask that, as chair of the NGA, you end the Common Core project. We
respectfully submit that your decisions on this matter will define your
legacy.
Sincerely,
Your Name
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