RESOLUTION
Alaska Academic Standards
College and Career Readiness Standards
Common Core State Standards
Adopted January 22, 2015
WHEREAS, The Valley Republican Women is a member of the National Federation of Republican Women, which on October 2, 2011, passed a resolution against the “Common Core State Standards”;
WHEREAS, The Valley Republican Women hereby endorses and further expands upon said resolution;
WHEREAS, The national standards‐based “Common Core State Standards” Initiative is the centerpiece of a long-standing subversive agenda to centralize education decisions at the federal – if not United Nations – level;
WHEREAS, The use of national standards necessitates boards of bureaucrats whom the public did not elect and cannot fire or otherwise hold accountable;
WHEREAS, National standards remove – whether legally or through color of law – authority from states over what is taught in the classroom and how it is tested, and undercut the principle of federalism on which our nation was founded;
WHEREAS, There is no constitutional or statutory authority for national standards, national curricula, or national assessments and in fact the federal government is expressly prohibited from endorsing or dictating state/local decisions about standards, curricula, or assessments; and
WHEREAS, Such federal intrusion violates the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions; and
WHEREAS, U.S. Supreme Court decisions prohibit the State of Alaska from agreeing to or ratifying such violations of the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; and
WHEREAS, Alaska has adopted standards and curricula (known as the Alaska Academic Standards and College, Career Readiness Standards, and “21st-Century Skills”) that are not only plainly and obviously, but also according to the Council of Chief State School Officers the Alaska Commissioner of Education, and the Mat-Su School Board Superintendent, essentially identical to and aligned with the Common Core State Standards; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the Alaska Academic Standards and College and Career Readiness Standards, Alaskan schools have adopted mathematics and English curricula and textbooks that are offensive to the values of Alaskans and Americans and subversive of the Alaska Constitution and the U.S. Constitution; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the Alaska Academic Standards and College and Career Readiness Standards, Alaska has adopted data collection schemes (such as the “P20-W” and Statewide Longitudinal Data System – SLDS) that violate student, parent, and teacher privacy rights guaranteed under the Alaska Constitution and the U.S. Constitution;
WHEREAS, Pursuant to the Alaska Academic Standards and College and Career Readiness Standards, Alaskan schools are subjecting students to computerized, adaptive testing;
RESOLVED, That the Valley Republican Women asks its members to
(1) contact their local school board members and Alaska State Board of Education members to request they reject:
(i) the Alaska Academic Standards and College and Career Readiness Standards and any other standards similar to the Common Core State Standards,
(ii) curricula aligned to the Common Core or similar standards,
(iii) curricula that otherwise undermine or incorrectly restate the Alaska Constitution and/or U.S. Constitution, and
(iv) related instruction and testing, especially adaptive testing,
(iv) related instruction and testing, especially adaptive testing,
(2) ask their State Senators and Representatives to
(i) follow the Alaska Constitution and U.S. Constitution and refuse to allow the federal government to dictate what standards Alaska adopts,
(ii) refuse federal education money when the acceptance of said money requires Alaska to conform to federal mandates regarding standards, curricula, data, and/or testing and/or when the cost of accepting said money (such as the cost of complying with conditions of said money) exceeds the amount of money received,
(i) follow the Alaska Constitution and U.S. Constitution and refuse to allow the federal government to dictate what standards Alaska adopts,
(ii) refuse federal education money when the acceptance of said money requires Alaska to conform to federal mandates regarding standards, curricula, data, and/or testing and/or when the cost of accepting said money (such as the cost of complying with conditions of said money) exceeds the amount of money received,
(iii) adopt standards or guidelines that are academically proven, educate children in the Principles of Liberty, and teach the true text and meaning of the Alaska Constitution and U.S. Constitution,
(iv) encourage schools to use curricula and textbooks that correctly teach our Organic Documents such as the Alaska Constitution, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence, and teach traditional American values and the historical role of the United States of America as a “shining city on a hill,” and
(iv) encourage schools to use curricula and textbooks that correctly teach our Organic Documents such as the Alaska Constitution, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence, and teach traditional American values and the historical role of the United States of America as a “shining city on a hill,” and
(v) prohibit the collection, use, or dissemination of data in violation of the Alaska Constitution or U.S. Constitution, such as the current data systems implemented pursuant to U.S. Department of Education coercion (“P20W/SLDS/etc.), require the expungement of any data already collected in violation thereof, and only allow traditional, basic, data collection as has historically been done, and
(3) spread the word about the threat of a federal government – or United Nations – takeover of education, the “dumbing down” of our students, and the subversion of traditional American values, the Declaration of Independence, and the Alaska and U.S. Constitutions.
Unanimously adopted by the Valley Republican Women, this, the 22nd day of January, 2015.
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