Given yesterday's Post and Courier coverage of the Common Core issue, I wanted to make sure my position on the issue was known to all. As I suspect you know I have always been a proponent of local control of education and school choice and the market principles that they entail, as keys to bettering education. That’s why during my prior time in Congress I voted to end the Department of Education, ...and during my time in the governorship I pushed the school choice bill, the "Put Parents in Charge" bill and any other choice bill that came across my desk. I think our push for total choice in education is the reason we were able to get choice in early childhood education and the charter school bill through during our eight years.
In 2009, when South Carolina had a chance to compete with other states for federal funds in the Race to the Top program, my administration elected to not prevent the state from competing for federal funds. In order to make a competitive bid for these Race to the Top funds, states had to adopt a program for college and career ready standards. South Carolina was not, however, forced to adopt Common Core nor did our Administration condone the initiative. Daren Briscoe, a press secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, was even recently quoted in an article by The State saying, “States were not required to adopt Common Core as a requirement to qualify for…Race to the Top grants”.
After I had left the governorship, the state Board of Education and the Education Oversight Committee voted to adopt and implement Common Core. My remaining appointees all voted against the adoption of Common Core. Had I still been Governor during this time, I would have urged that Common Core not be adopted and vetoed any portion of it that might have come to my desk. Out of office, and as a private citizen I opposed it for the way it takes local decision making to Washington and I oppose it now. As a Representative for the 1st District of South Carolina, I will oppose Common Core at the federal level. I have always believed that local communities are best able to determine the educational needs of their own children and that means local/state level determination of curriculum standards and assessment. As significantly I remain committed to choice in education because I believe that God makes every child different and that there ought to be a host of learning options available to parents and their children and because I believe all services are improved through the very American notion of competition. This means choice in all its forms, homeschool, religious and private school and even choice within public school through things like charter schools.
In 2009, when South Carolina had a chance to compete with other states for federal funds in the Race to the Top program, my administration elected to not prevent the state from competing for federal funds. In order to make a competitive bid for these Race to the Top funds, states had to adopt a program for college and career ready standards. South Carolina was not, however, forced to adopt Common Core nor did our Administration condone the initiative. Daren Briscoe, a press secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, was even recently quoted in an article by The State saying, “States were not required to adopt Common Core as a requirement to qualify for…Race to the Top grants”.
After I had left the governorship, the state Board of Education and the Education Oversight Committee voted to adopt and implement Common Core. My remaining appointees all voted against the adoption of Common Core. Had I still been Governor during this time, I would have urged that Common Core not be adopted and vetoed any portion of it that might have come to my desk. Out of office, and as a private citizen I opposed it for the way it takes local decision making to Washington and I oppose it now. As a Representative for the 1st District of South Carolina, I will oppose Common Core at the federal level. I have always believed that local communities are best able to determine the educational needs of their own children and that means local/state level determination of curriculum standards and assessment. As significantly I remain committed to choice in education because I believe that God makes every child different and that there ought to be a host of learning options available to parents and their children and because I believe all services are improved through the very American notion of competition. This means choice in all its forms, homeschool, religious and private school and even choice within public school through things like charter schools.
Common Core advances on false pretenses
SHOULD CHILDREN BE SENTENCED TO DEATH WITHOUT A TRAIL BY STEVE FINNELL
ReplyDeleteShould unborn children be executed without a judge and twelve jurors sentencing them to death? Why do adults get their day in court, but the unborn are killed without a fair trial? Why are the unborn deemed worthy of death?
The advocates of abortion contend that unborn children are not human, but are simply nonhuman fetal tissue.
God makes clear the life begins at conception.
Job 3:3 "May the day perish on which I was born. And the night in which it was said, 'A male child is conceived.'(NKJV)
Children are children at conception.
Genesis 25:21-22 Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife , because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If all is well, why am I this way?" So she went to inquire of the Lord.(NKJV)
Rebekah do not conceive nonhuman fetuses. Children struggled in her womb.
Luke 1:36 "Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this now the sixth month for her who was called barren.(NKJV)
Elizabeth conceived a son. She did not conceive a nonhuman fetus.
Did the Virgin Mary conceive Jesus as the Son of God, or was Jesus a nonhuman blog, called a fetus? (Luke 1:30-31)
Since Roe v Wade 57 million unborn babies have been executed without appearing before a judge and a jury of their peers. What crime did those 57 million babies commit that they should be sentenced to death without a trial.
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