Bob Unruh: Obama Ed Aims at US Takeover!!

All schools, even parents at home, may be forced to teach the US government agenda! An organization that monitors the US government's influence on education, and specifically on parents who choose to school their own children, is warning of a pending move in Washington that would result in "de facto" "national education standards." The measure could not only require parents who home-school their children to teach certain government agenda issues, but also effectively remove much of the decision-making authority of local school boards and districts, warns the Home School Legal Defense Association. The organization focuses on issues affecting home-school students and their parents in the United States and overseas, but also keeps an eye on the larger picture of education policy. The concern is about Democrat-driven plans in the US Senate to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, a massive federal program last reauthorized in 2001, as NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND Act! HSLDA's federal relations staff have read this 868-page bill, and we believe that while it does not directly impact home-school freedom, the bill will increase the federal role in education, at the expense of state, local, and parental control.