Commentary

Obama Team Hijacks Schools’ Core Standards

By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, February 16 2012

The constitutional, statutory and philosophical abuses by the Obama administration continue piling up. Last week, two of the top former lawyers for the federal Department of Education released a peer-reviewed report showing the administration violating or evading three separate federal laws by pressuring states to adopt a national core curriculum. Those laws exist for good reason: Control of educational content by the national government risks creating a national system of indoctrination, without local recourse to diversity of thought. It was not a conservative but the Democratic former Secretary…

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