Community Information Packets
Ever talk to friends who just "don't get it"? Well many of us do. In this section we hope to provide you with professional looking informational pieces providing an overview on various topics. The information is at your fingertips. Just download packets (Packets are in .pdf format), print them off and you're set for distribution. The packets provide both an overview of the system as well as indept analysis of the topic.
Packets
FedEd in Minnesota Classrooms: Smaller Learning Communities Preparing Workers for a State Planned Economy by Senator Michele Bachmann. "The question before us is whether...we accept bureaucrats choosing careers for our children and directing our economy, or whether liberty will remain our children's future."
System Overview This 13-page overview packet includes two system overview articles, US Policy Embraces A State-Planned Economy and Your Child's Future is in Jeopardy. It then highlights main points in Marc Tucker's famous "Dear Hillary" letter, and ends with the actual "Dear Hillary" Letter. (Marc Tucker helped to lay the framework of today's education/workforce system.)
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) This 13-page WIA packet includes four articles: Workforce Investment Act puts America on the Road to Fascism; Opposition Report to Reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act; School-to-Work's Missing Piece: The Workforce Investment Act; and Workforce Investment Act of 1998: Summary of Workforce Development Provisions. Read this packet and you'll have a whole new understanding of what this system really is about.
What Can Parents Do? Five pages, including: a curriculum example from Mahtomedi, MN, where students were assessed for Bias, a Sample Parental Consent Form, an article on Parent and Student Legal Rights and helpful information on What Parents Can Do
Individual Articles
US Policy Embraces A State Planned Economy Version 1
US Policy Embraces A State Planned Economy Version 2
FedEd 4 page description of the Federal Governments takeover of education in our nation
BEWARE-the Delphi Technique! 2 pages to help you respond to do trained facilitators in public meetings
Background of the School To Work Concept 4 pages of Congressional Testimony by By D.L. Cuddy, Phd to explain the origins of STW
Minnesota's Profile of Learning: What is it?
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