Obama Pushes Reform For America's 2nd Class, Racist Education System

Obama Prods States To Raise Academic Standards



President Barack Obama prodded states Monday to raise their school standards by using his best leverage: money.

Obama told governors he wants a change in law that would allow states to receive federal aid for poor students only if they adopt academic standards that are deemed to truly prepare children for college or careers out of high school.

The move would require a change in the nation's main elementary and secondary education law, which became known as the No Child Left Behind Act during the presidency of George W. Bush.

Traditionally, the federal government is a marginal player in the financing and control of education, but its role has expanded as educators and lawmakers at all levels worry about slipping U.S. competitiveness.

Many schools count on a key source of Federal aid, known as Title I, to help out their poorest students. That's the money that Obama wants to make contingent upon the setting of more rigorous standards across the nation. It would remain up to states, not Washington, to choose their specific standards.

Many states are already working on a united effort to coordinate and improve their standards.

Yet Obama took a swipe at how some states responded to this challenge under No Child Left Behind, saying 11 states lowered their standards in math between 2005 and 2007.

"That may make those states look better relative to other states," Obama said, "but it's not going to help our students keep up with their global competitors."

Obama spoke to governors of both parties during their yearly gathering with the president at the White House.

The White House said the Governors have been working on the president's Race to the Top program, which rewards school systems that raise standards and demonstrate commitment through tougher student assessments.

At the same time, the White House said that too many states are churning out graduates who are unprepared either for college or career.

In addition to supporting ongoing state efforts, the White House said the president will commit an additional $350 million to the Race to the Top challenge to back "state-led partnerships to develop new, state-of-the art assessments aligned to college and career-ready standards."

According to the White House, the president's 2011 budget will call for the Re-Authorization of the 1994 version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which would require states to meet six tough standards to help high school graduates prepare for college or jobs. The White House said schools need to focus on better teacher preparation, improved teaching and tougher student assessments.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was first passed in 1965 and has been routinely re-authorized every five years. Under the measure, federal money is sent to the states to pay for teacher development, instructional materials, educational resources and promotion of parental involvement.

Obama's Re-Authorization would:

—Require the states to adopt and certify that they have college-and career-ready standards in Reading and Mathematics" to be eligible for the federal money.

—Establish a $405 million outlay to help states "align teacher preparation practices and programs to teaching of college- and career-ready standards."

—Provide grants totaling $400 million to states that adopt tougher student assessment programs.

—Dedicate $1.35 billion to the Race to the Top program in addition to stimulus money for the program.

—Allot $2.5 billion in the 2011 budget to a state grant program to support better teaching and leadership in the schools.





Layoffs Loom For Teachers: Education Secretary


Many teachers and educators across the United States are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the nation's education secretary told a meeting of the National Governors Association on Sunday.

"I am very, very concerned about layoffs going into the next school year starting in September. Good superintendents are going to start sending out pink slips in March and April, like a month from now, as they start to plan for their budgets," said Arne Duncan, referring to the slips of paper included in some paychecks to notify a person of being fired.

As tax revenues in most states continue to plummet because of weak economies, states and cities are considering cutting education to keep their budgets balanced. Every state in the union except one, Vermont, is required to balance its budget.

The economic stimulus package, pushed last year by the administration of President Barack Obama and approved by Congress saved at least 320,000 education jobs, Duncan told the governors.

The plan included the largest transfer of money from the U.S. government to states in the nation's history, according to the Pew Center on the States.

It created a stabilization fund of $48 billion that provided cash directly to states, mostly for schools. But those funds will likely run out before the end of the year.

Last week, Obama warned of the possibility of layoffs in state governments when the stimulus ends.

Late on Sunday, the White House announced that it will put $350 million into new competitive grants states can use to develop educational standards designed to prepare students for college.

Meanwhile, Duncan said the $1.5 billion "Race to the Top" grants included in the stimulus plan are on track to be distributed soon, with the finalists for the grants announced next week.

Obama has proposed extending the program, as well as expanding it by $3 billion, to fund new education innovations, especially at semi-autonomous charter schools.

The administration will also send out school improvement grants to states next month totaling $3.5 billion, Duncan said.

Employment is one of the most pressing issues in the United States, where the unemployment rate stands at 9.7 percent. The secretary, formerly the chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools, said there was some hope for educators in jobs legislation passed by the House of Representatives and is pending in the Senate.

Duncan also said a bill known as the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act passed by the House would boost funding for colleges and universities.

In January, there were 8.03 million workers in local government education, down from 8.09 million a year before and 8.05 million in January 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.











Obama's Stimulus Success Rate A Fallacy For North Carolina Teachers


Do you really believe Pres. Obama's Stimulus plan has created or saved jobs?

Well.....

Here is further proof the Stimulus success rate was a lie fabricated by the Mainstream Media and that it did NOT save Teaching Jobs in North Carolina.

Last year after Pres. Obama signed the Recovery Act into law he dished out $8.1B to North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue (Democrat).

After gladly accepting it what did Gov. Perdue do with her state's share?

Due to North Carolina's $4B plus deficit caused by previous Wasteful Democrat Spending and Corruption, she appears to have helped balance the state's budget.

Where's the rest of it?

North Carolina citizens have no idea.

Just like we don't know where hundreds of millions in N.C. Education Lottery money went. (We guess it just disappeared into thin air.)

Instead of saving Teacher Jobs Gov. Perdue ordered North Carolina Public School Superintendents to slash millions in Educational funding, not excluding Teachers. Especially Teachers working in Low Income schools.

The result?

Thousands of North Carolina Teachers lost their jobs.

Many of them were Fired ILLEGALLY and appealed to get their jobs back.

(Evidence and Data to substantiate this post can be obtained from CMS, N.C. Dept of Ed., U.S. Dept of Ed., etc., via the Freedom of Information Act.)

What has the Obama Administration done to stop this unjust travesty? ?

NOTHING!

Why?

He obviously hopes to win North Carolina again in 2012, so he is basically selling out North Carolina Teachers and Minority Students for Political Gain. ("Pay for Play")

Did the Mainstream Media report any of this?

NO!

They refused to because they didn't want Pres. Obama to appear as a Liar or Incompetent.

Please know those N.C. Teachers were NOT laid-off for Poor Performance reasons.

To the contrary because they were all Certified, some National Board Certified and most possessed Master Degrees.

In addition about 97% of them had previously received Excellent Evaluations.

They were laid-off because Gov. Bev Perdue used the Stimulus money to her discretion (personal political gain) and due to obvious Racism (just review her past & present policies), it didn't matter if Minority students failed because of unnecessary Teacher lay-offs.

You see the more Minority Students drop out of school and commit crimes, the more Minority citizens she can help imprison in North Carolina Prisons for LIFE!

Even if they commit Non-Homicidal, Non Drug Related Crimes.

Well this year Gov. Bev Perdue is planning to do the exact, same thing. (Fire Teachers unnecessarily)

Thousands more North Carolina Teachers are expected to lose their jobs before August 2010.

Does anyone care?

It doesn't look like it.

In fact more Teacher Lay-offs are currently in the planning stages for many, many Charlotte-Mecklenburg Teachers.

I'm about to expose another prime example of how the Stimulus plan isn't working well in North Carolina and how N.C. Politicians/ N.C. Education Officials are using this Recession as an excuse NOT to educate Minority Students.

Ever since Dr. Peter Gorman was hired in 2006 as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' Superintendent, he has worked diligently behind the scenes to Re-segregate Charlotte's Public School system.

All of the De-Segregation efforts established by previous CMS Superintendents (Dr. Elmer Garinger , Dr. A. Craig Phillips, Dr. William Self, Dr. Rolland Jones, Dr. Jay Robinson, Dr. Peter Relic, Dr. John Murphy, Dr. Eric Smith, Dr. James L. Pughsley, Dr. Frances Haithcock) have basically been destroyed by Gorman's Racist regime.

(Dr. Peter Gorman is the same man Arne Duncan wanted to hire last year to help improve Public Schools nationwide. Can you believe it?)

What's even more amazing is how the local NAACP, Charlotte Meck. School Board, Charlotte Meck. County Board of Commissioners, Charlotte City Council Members and Black Leaders have assisted Dr. Gorman in his deviant, divisive quest to further disadvantage Charlotte's Minority Students.

But Wait!

Whose mission is Dr. Peter Gorman carrying out in order to remain employed and continue in his role?

Jennifer Roberts (Democrat) and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners!

That's right because they hold Charlotte's purse strings.

Since Jennifer Roberts is the Chairperson, she along with Gov. Bev Perdue (her political "partner in crime") are both Guilty of disenfranchising Charlotte's Minority Students as it relates to them receiving an Equal Education.

Jennifer Roberts may attempt to spin a fake story about "Budget Cuts" to cover up her race-based malfeasance but don't believe her.

In 2008 Jennifer Roberts allowed Charlotte-Meck's County Manager (Harry Jones) to create a unnecessary DSS job (during a Hiring Freeze) for his fellow Church Member and the wife of our current Mayor Anthony Foxx.

This woman was paid a salary of $100,000 and worked on this job for little over a entire year.

If Charlotte was hurting for money than why did Jennifer Roberts allow this unnecessary job to be created?

As you can see Jennifer appears to have no problem using Federal and Taxpayer Dollars to grant Political Favors but when it comes to educating Minority students, she often intentionally falls short.

Just in case you weren't aware, Jennifer Roberts is an Educator within the UNC System.

However I guess helping to ensure Minority Children receive an Equal education comparable to White Students isn't on her agenda. (Hypocrite!)


Now check out how Dr. Peter Gorman's Charlotte-Meck. Public Schools Re-segregation Strategies work:


1) Eliminate School Choice thus only allowing Low Income Minority Students to attend Failing/ Low Performing schools in their communities. This includes eliminating ALL Magnet School Transportation.

2) Place the least experienced Teachers in those Failing Schools.

3) Keep Minority Students (mainly African-Americans) out of Gifted and AP programs. Also cut funding for Fine Arts courses from Failing/ Low Performing schools.

4) Put Pre-School and Kindergarten level Malfunctioning Software in the Technology Labs of Failing/ Low Performing Schools so Minority Students won't become Computer Literate or master Technology Skills

5) Encourage Principals and Staff to INTENTIONALLY keep as many Minority Students (mainly African-Americans) below Grade level as possible in order to continue receiving Federal Title 1 money.

6) If a Principal in an Failing/ Low Performing School is doing "too good" of a job educating those Minority Students, move that Principal out and put in someone with much Lower Standards for Minority Students.

7) Steal Money from Charlotte's Charter Schools and fight against Charter Schools.

8) Use the Federal Title 1 Funding and money stolen from Charlotte Charter Schools money to invest in Public schools located within Wealthy, Pre-dominantly White Communities.

9) Assign the Most Experienced, Brightest Teachers to schools located in Wealthy, Pre-dominantly White Communities.

10) Illegally Fire Teachers from Failing/ Low Performing Schools (Title 1) in order to save and secure funding for Teachers assigned to CMS Schools in Wealthy, Pre-dominantly White Communities.

(Reminder: Evidence and Data to substantiate this post can be obtained from CMS, N.C. Dept of Ed., U.S. Dept of Ed., etc., via the Freedom of Information Act.)


Will the Obama Administration and Mainstream Media continue to ignore this crisis?

How many more Minority Students in North Carolina must suffer while N.C. Politicians and Educators waste Federal Funds or use Federal Funds to ONLY Educate White Students?

Inquiring minds would like to know!


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Sources: MSNBC, McClatchy Newspapers, WRAL, Public Policy Polling, U.S. Dept of Education, Whitehouse.gov, Recovery.gov. John Locke Foundation, Meck Deck Blog, Youtube, Google Maps