Bill Ayers A Driving Force Behind Obama’s Federal School Curriculum

September 30, 2012

By Lonely Conservative

Accuracy in Media has a long and informative post about President Obama’s “Race to the Top” school program. Obama’s favorite domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, is a driving force behind this push to nationalize education and dumb down our children. This is disturbing, to say the least.

Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes:

• A national curriculum called Common Core
• Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats
• A leveling of all schools to one, low national standard, and a redistribution of education funds among school districts
• An effective federal tracking of all students
• The loss of the option of avoiding the national curriculum and tests through private school and home school

Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama’s community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda Darling-Hammond, a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers, the former leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground who became a professor of education and friend of Obama’s.
When these dangerous initiatives are implemented, there will be no escaping bad schools and a radical curriculum by moving to a good suburb, or by home schooling, or by enrolling your children in private schools.
How was it that 48 governors entered Race-to-the-Top without knowing outcomes?

Please take the time to read the whole thing. It’s an important issue that we aren’t hearing about from the media.
H/T to reader J.R.

Tags: Bill Ayers, Core Curriculum, education, federal, obama, race to the top