Common Core — opposition in Pennsylvania
Creationism, Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
F.I.R.E.– The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s increasingly repressive and partisan colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE’s core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.
International Baccalaureate Program– IBO and the United Nations
Mandatory Mental Health Screening –– President Bush created the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in 2002, which released findings in April 2003. “The New Freedom Commission report asserts that “early detection, assessment, and links with treatment and supports can prevent mental health problems from worsening” and goes on to say that “strong school mental health programs can attend to the health and behavioral concerns of students, reduce unnecessary pain and suffering, and help ensure academic achievement.” In short, the Commission is urging that some form of mandatory mental health screening system be implemented in schools in order to identify mental health problems early and then adequately prescribe mental health medical treatments for those who need it.”
Opt Out for your children on religious grounds
Title IX – what is it?
June 23, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of Title IX of the Education Amendments. It says in part, “no person … shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Its purpose was to give females equal access to sports, educational opportunities, etc. Those who voted for Title IX back in 1972 knew what a female was (unlike the newest Justice on the US Supreme Court!).
Since 1975, federal regulations from the Department of Education (USDOE), the federal agency charged with enforcing Title IX, have authorized schools to provide “separate toilet, locker room, and shower facilities on the basis of sex,” so long as the “facilities provided for students of one sex [are] comparable to such facilities provided for students of the other sex.”
Now this administration is working to undermine the original intent of Title IX by changing the USDOE rules that define Title IX. How? Biden wants the meaning of “sex” in Title IX to cover “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “pregnancy or related conditions.”
Click here for the PA Senate Education Committee memo from Committee Chairman David Argall.
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