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Default Get To Know the Common Core Marketing Overlord

Follow the $$$$$$$. Take note of all the non-profits that are really profiting from Common Core "State" Standards. Anyone who has even a slight clue as to how much tax money this involves should know that this is one of the biggest $$$$ windfalls for both big business and the liberal nonprofits. It's truly sickening the garbage this country is being forced to eat, while they hide behind our children. Yes, our education system is crap, but you can point the finger directly at the far left liberals that saturate it with leftist propaganda and their desire to act like they are the students parents, not their educators. For many years they have made excuses for why Johnny can't read. Their latest is because he's hungry, so they now feed him breakfast and lunch. They say he has emotional issues and must be treated with care, always told he's a winner no matter how bad he acts. And the latest here in California, is a new law that requires the school district prove they have given poor Johnny every possible break, such as special counseling, special training, special everything, before they can suspend him or expel him. All on the taxpayers dime. California spends $53 BILLION EACH YEAR ON EDUCATION, 53% OF THE STATES GENERAL FUND AND IT IS STILL NOT ENOUGH



Get To Know the Common Core Marketing Overlord

Michelle Malkin — March 24, 2014

They’re everywhere. Turn on Fox News, local news, Animal Planet, HGTV, the Family Channel, or talk radio. Pro-Common Core commercials have been airing ad nauseam in a desperate attempt to persuade American families to support the beleaguered federal education standards/testing/technology racket. Who is funding these public-relations pushes? D.C. lobbyists, entrenched politicians, and Big Business interests.
The foundational myth of Common Core is that it’s a “state-led” initiative with grassroots support that was crafted by local educators for the good of all of our children. But the cash and power behind the new ad campaign tell you all you need to know. For parents in the know, this will be a refresher course. But repeated lies must be countered with redoubled truths.
The Bipartisan Policy Center is one of the leading Common Core ad sponsors. It’s a self-described nonprofit “think tank” founded by a pantheon of Beltway barnacles: former Senate majority leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George Mitchell.
“Lobbying tank” would be more accurate. The BPC’s “senior fellows” include K Street influence peddlers such as liberal Republican Robert Bennett, the big-spending Utah senator-turned-lobbyist booted from office by tea-party conservatives; former Democratic Agriculture secretary and House-member-turned-lobbyist Dan Glickman; and liberal Democrat Byron Dorgan, the former North Dakota senator who crusaded as an anti-D.C. lobbying populist before retiring from office to work as, you guessed it, a D.C. lobbyist.
Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education is also saturating the airwaves with ads trying to salvage Common Core in the face of truly bipartisan, truly grassroots opposition in his own home state of Florida. As I’ve reported previously, the former GOP governor’s foundation is tied at the hip to the federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers), which pulled in $186 million through the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program to develop Common Core tests.
One of the Bush foundation’s top corporate sponsors is Pearson, the multi-billion-dollar educational publishing and testing conglomerate. Pearson snagged $23 million in contracts to design the first wave of PARCC test items and $1 billion for overpriced, insecure Common Core iPads purchased by the Los Angeles Unified School District, and Pearson is leading the $13.4 billion edutech cash-in catalyzed by Common Core’s technology mandates.
In December, you should know, the state of New York determined that Pearson’s nonprofit foundation had abused the law by siphoning charitable assets to benefit its for-profit arm to curry favor with the Common Core-peddling Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Pearson paid a $7.7 million settlement after the attorney general concluded that the company’s charitable arm was marketing Common Core course material it believed could be sold by the for-profit side for “tens of millions of dollars.” After being smoked out, the Pearson Foundation sold the courses to its corporate sibling for $15.1 million.
Then there’s the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has joined the Clintonite-stocked Center for American Progress to promote Common Core. The Chamber has earmarked more than $52 million on D.C. lobbying efforts.
Two D.C. trade associations, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), continue to rubber-stamp Common Core propaganda. They are both recipients of tens of millions of dollars in Gates Foundation money. NGA employed Democratic education wonk Dane Linn to help shepherd through the standards; Linn now flacks for Common Core at the D.C.-based Business Roundtable lobbying shop, another leading sponsor of the ads now bombarding your TVs and radios.
Despite its misleading name, NGA does not represent all of the nation’s governors, holds only nonbinding resolution votes, and serves primarily as an “unelected, unrepresentative networking forum,” as Heartland Institute scholar Joy Pullmann put it, with funding from both taxpayers and private corporations. NGA’s meetings on writing Common Core standards were convened in secret and are protected by confidentiality agreements.
Direct public input was nil. Of the 25 people in the NGA and CCSSO’s two Common Core standards-writing “working groups,” six were associated with the test-makers from the College Board, five were with fellow test-publishers ACT, and four were with Achieve, Inc., reported EdWeek blogger Anthony Cody in 2009. Several had zero experience in standards writing.
Achieve, Inc., you may recall from my previous work, is a Washington, D.C., nonprofit stocked with education lobbyists who’ve been working on federal-standards schemes since the Clinton years. In fact, Achieve’s president, Michael Cohen, is a veteran Clinton-era educrat who also used to direct education policy for NGA. In addition to staffing the standards-writing committee and acting as lead Common Core coordinating mouthpiece, Achieve, Inc., is the “project management partner” of the Common Core-aligned, tax-subsidized PARCC testing conglomerate.
Who’s behind Achieve? Reminder: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has dumped $37 million into the group since 1999 to promote Common Core. According to a new analysis by former Georgia State University professor Jack Hassard, the Gates Foundation has now doled out an estimated total of $2.3 billion on Common Core-related grants to thousands of recipients in addition to NGA, CCSSO, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, and Achieve.
As they prop up astroturfed front groups and agitprop, D.C.’s Common Core PR blitzers scoff at their critics as “black helicopter” theorists. Don’t read their lips. Just follow the money. This bipartisan power grab is Washington-led and Washington-fed. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s elementary: All Common Core roads lead to K Street.
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