BRTP Members:

We'd like to put together an action team to address the unconstitutional federal involvement in education, as well as the states using textbooks infiltrated with views that do not reflect traditional American values, including such "sustainable growth" (ie: abolition of property rights, abandonment of constitutional rights) as is being pushed by Agenda 21 proponents to the states & localities.

"Eye on Education" is an effort to prevent all of this, presently forming state divisions to contact state Departments of Education to insist on change. The ultimate goal of increasing states' educational prerogatives within their own spheres (and ultimately downsizing and eliminating the DOE) fits well within our goals involving fiscal responsibility and constitutionally-limited government.

It would be great if BRTP could take the lead on this effort in Louisiana, recruit others within our state, and really start a "brushfire of freedom" against the educational establishment. A volunteer "bulldog action group" (as few as three people are needed) would be great. 

Mike

The following is from:

Sheri Krass, Chair Person 

Florida Textbook Action Team (TAT) and Eye On Education (EOE)  

561-672-1410      sheri1449@gmail.com

The Florida Textbook Action Team (TAT) is now becoming the Local/County Division of "Eye on Education". We are also forming State and National Divisions. The National Division of "Eye on Education" is looking for volunteers in each State - so that we can network with its organizations.  We want to communicate with every State in our Republic - sharing education information, identifying problems, and determining possible actions/solutions.

This work will mainly be done online - through emails. Some research will be needed to identify organizations not on the contact list that we will be providing. Each State volunteer will be given an introductory letter to be sent to these organizations.

Textbook publishers are providing books that have faulty, slanted, and biased excerpts. Citizens for National Security (CFNS) identified over 200 faulty excerpts with a pro-Islamic and/or anti-Judeo/Christian bias.  These textbooks are used in every State of our Republic. Every organization in every State will receive both a list of these textbooks and faulty excerpts.

We are going to ask the organizations in each State to contact their State Department of Education and insist that they inform these publishers that they will not buy these textbooks until revised editions are available.

We believe that the Federal Department of Education (DOE) is unconstitutional. The US Constitution clearly states the powers of the Federal Government. Education is not one of the delineated powers. It is reserved to the Sovereign States.

Right now, the Federal Government dictates to the States what curriculum they must follow and "pushes" Agenda 21 onto the States. By the States joining together, we will eventually have the power to remove the Federal DOE and their influence.

One way to do this is to "de-fund" the DOE - by the States refusing to send monies to them. Decisions pertaining to how the money is spent, curriculum, etc. will be made by each State - where it belongs.

In Florida, of the monies that are allocated toward education, the Federal Government only contributes 10%. The rest is provided by the State. For a breakdown of the States - Fiscal Year 2009 - by the National Center for Education Statistics - you can go to this link:

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2011/2011329.pdf

Table 1, Page 7 of this report.

As we are organized in Florida and just obtained a volunteer for the States of New York, Indiana, and New Jersey, we only have 46 States to go! I've only been able to identify 50 States - not the 57 that Obama mentioned!

If you are interested in volunteering to network with your State organizations (or choose another State), contact me, and I will send you a list of emails and websites of organizations in your State. You will first need to verify the emails provided and, through searching each website, find those emails we do not have.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Please forward this request to anyone you think may be interested in volunteering.

Sheri Krass, Chair Person 

sheri1449@gmail.com

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