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August 27, 2009

Issues:

1.)     Why We Need to Stop the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

2.)    Graduation Tests – a bad idea

3.)    912 March on DC

Details

1.)      United Nations believes kindergarten students should be taught about masturbation!  Every kindergartener in America will be given this sex ed lesson if the Senate ratifies the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Click here to read the story. 

2.)    From Mars R & R Services in Butler County concerning the Keystone Exams -- a proposed graduation exam:  (for a more complete analysis click here )

A little background: 

6.3.09 --  Senate Education Committee unanimously blocked the State Department of Education from going forward with a $201 million contract with a Minnesota testing company to implement the Keystone Exams. For two hours prior to the vote Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak was skewered for proceeding with a seven-year contract without legislative approval at a time when Pennsylvania faces a $3.2 billion deficit.

8.13.09 --  Joint Concurrent Resolution by Representative Clymer and Representative Youngblood.

This Resolution is at the request of the NAACP and intends to do the following:

*A unified message from the General Assembly to Governor Rendell asking for him to cease all implementation and funding of the final-form regulation.

*The PA Constitution vests the power to make education policy and funding decisions in the General Assembly and the executive power in the Governor.

*The General Assembly and the Governor have an opportunity to work together and do what the Constitution and the People sent them here to do.

The basic message of this is:

The People have spoken, the General Assembly has spoken, the Governor has spoken.  Since the Department of Education will not listen to the General Assembly, maybe they will listen to the Governor.  So the General Assembly is reaching out to him for this assistance. 

8.25.09 -- In one day we got 85 co-sponsors and we are now up to 136 co-sponsors who have signed onto support the Bi-partisan Joint Concurrent Resolution in regards to students and Keystone Exams.

Following are the State Reps who have not yet signed on to the Joint Concurrent Resolution co-sponsored by Representatives Youngblood and Clymer at the request of the NAACP, which is a non-partisan resolution.

There are 136 co-sponsors, and the House has been in session only one day since this was circulated by Reps. Youngblood and Clymer. Only 30 more co-sponsors are needed. The purpose behind this resolution is to demonstrate to IRRC (who will be reviewing the regulations) that there is not sufficient legislative intent, slow down the regulatory process, allow time for another discharge resolution for SB281  to come before the full house, and eliminate funding from the Governor’s budget. (There were sufficient votes in the full House the last time SB281 was brought forth to pass the House, which is why the Senate Ed. Committee passed SB281 onto Appropriations Committee, where it currently sits and can be brought forth again after required days pass.) Recall that SB281 has already passed in the Senate 48-1.

The following State Representatives have not signed on as co-sponsors:

3.)     Interested in going to Washington, D.C. to deliver a message to those who are working to remake and redefine America?

Action Steps:

1.)    Check out the Parental Rights website  to see why this UN Conventionon the Rights of the Child MUST be stopped. If your Congressman is not a co-sponsor ask him or her to sign on as a co-sponsor of H.J. Res. 42.  Click here to review the list of co-sponsors.  Neither of Pennsylvania's US Senators are co-sponsors -- please ask Senator Arlen Specter and Senator Bob Casey, Jr. to sign on as co-sponsor sof S.J. Res. 16. 

2.)    If your State Representative is currently on the list under Number 2 above, please consider contacting him or her and urging them to sign on as a co-sponsor for the Bi-partisan Joint Concurrent Resolution in regards to students and Keystone Exams.  If interested, they can contact either Representative Paul Clymer or Representative Rosita Youngblood. 

3.)    Click here for a list of Pennsylvania locations where buses will be leaving to make the trip to Washington, D.C. on September 12^th.    If you know of any others, please let us know so we can update the list.  It would be helpful to have the exact location, address, time of departure, cost, and contact person, but simply the town and contact information is sufficient. 

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