From Steve Sibson, January 2012: I attended Governor Daugaard’s budget presentation this morning in Mitchell. His goal was to promote two initiatives. One was a Workforce Initiative and the other was in education, as the Secretary of Education was present. He actually admitted that the two were to be connected at the hip. He started out…

Great piece by American Principles Project’s Jane Robbins.  David Coleman, the non-English teacher who wrote the Common Core national English language arts (ELA) standards, is conducting a charm offensive to persuade Christians to embrace the new national standards. According to Mr. Coleman, students “educated” under Common Core will be better readers and better able to…

We have shared with you the video of Shirley McCune, the Senior Director of McRel, at the 1989 National Governors’ Conference on Education. She shares these three new objectives of education  Total transformation of our society (sound familiar?) Facts and information(knowledge) no longer primary purpose of education The close connection between economic(sustainable) development and human…

From EdWeek: Dear Mr. President,Like thousands of experienced classroom teachers throughout our great country, I am very concerned about how you decided to go the way that you did with your Education policies. I was recently told by a close friend of the yours that “Arne’s Team looked at all of the options” and decided…

New taxes to pay for this national education because history has shown that federal money in public education has raised student achievement? From Heartland: The Obama administration may raise taxes on everyone’s phone lines by about $5 per year to increase K-12 tech subsidies because most schools cannot administer the computerized Common Core tests coming…

Many call the data collection of common core, the “creepy” part of Common Core. Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, required all 50 states to build a Statewide Longitudinal Data System(SLDS). States are required to build a P-20 database, pre-school through doctorate. South Dakota’s is called Student Teacher Accountability System (STARS). We have…

So, we’ve been told that we need the Common Core Standards to make children “College and Career Ready.” Hear what a representative of the College Board says about the Common Core Standards slowing down math, omitting calculus and the dumbing down of the AP courses.http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/video-college-board-accidentally-explains-dumbing-down-ap-to-match-common-core/

Jeffrey Kibler clearly lays out the plan of the UN and others to create a global economy and citizenship by using the “education” system to create cogs in a managed society. History shows that if you want to change a society, you start with the children. Common Core Based On UN Education Program and Agenda…

Thank-you Mitchell Superintendent, Joe Graves, for standing with the families of Mitchell and local control. During the meeting’s public commentary segment, Mitchell resident Steve Sibson expressed concern about the pending statewide adoption of common core curriculum standards. “It’s my belief that common core is not about the quality of education, but the control of our…

From Heritage: When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal government,” said Sandra Stotsky, 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality at the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform, speaking at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Stotsky and four other education…