This is our last chance to stop the dreadful, education bill, H.R. 1.
It is scheduled to be voted on in the House of Representatives this week!
You must call your Congressman and tell him to vote NO on H.R. 1. You may
cite these terrible flaws in the bill, provided to us by Congressman Ron
Paul (R-TX):
A Vote for HR 1 is a Vote To:
Expand federal control over education—HR 1 uses words like
"shall," "must," and "require" to issue
commands to states and local schools over two
thousand times!
Spend $23 billion on failed education programs!
Force states to implement federally-approved education standards.
Impose massive new testing mandates on the States that will inevitably
lead to a de facto national curriculum.
Infiltrate the education offerings of faith-based groups by allowing
them to participate in federally-funded tutoring programs if their
programs are "secular, neutral and non-ideological."
Violate the United States Constitution by stripping control over
education away from parents, teachers, local communities and giving it to
federal bureaucrats!
Ignore the lesson of over thirty years of failure; federal control over
the classroom is a recipe for leaving every child behind!
