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The Questions You'll Find Answered Here

• What is happening in our schools that will affect every worker in America?
• What happened to local control of our schools?
• Why are kids spending class time training for entry level jobs?
• Why is time spent on projects and group learning instead of the basics?
• Why are businesses training teachers in job skills?
• Why are reading, writing and math skills going down?
• The answer to these and many other questions are found on this website.

The federal government has set in motion a restructuring of our schools, our workforce and our economy to create a new system called School-to-work or STW. Minnesota and all other states are incorporating a central planning system to implement STW.

STW places the needs of business above the needs or wants of the child. How New U.S. Policy Embraces a State-Planned Economy Federal law forms a new governance structure that opposes both free enterprise and representative government. Instead, government centrally plans and manages the economy.

The scaffolding for a centrally-planned economy was passed piecemeal under President Clinton and is currently being reassembled at the state level by combining federal laws into the following three-way "public/private partnership:"

This public/private partnership was created by the following federal laws: Goals 2000 (G2000) created the partnership between government and education by mandating dumbed-down national education standards, a national curriculum, national test, and national teacher licensure. Local and state control of education is ended.

School-to-Work (STW) creates the education/business partnership, changing the purpose of education from acquiring knowledge, to supplying workers for business. Schools become job-training centers offering narrowly defined career choices, approved by government economic forecasters, which match students and adults with government-preferred industries.

Workforce Investment Act (WIA) finishes the partnership triangle by creating a nationwide network of workforce boards, made up of "government-appointed representatives" from business, education, and government, who work to implement and manage the system through local "one-stop" centers. Together, these laws align and consolidate all local, state, and federal policies, programs, and funding into a single state-managed economic system.

How the System Works The Federal Department of Labor chooses which private industry sectors are promoted in each state. K-12 and state colleges dump academics for job training in local "targeted" industries. A new national curriculum is used that embraces a socialist, globalist worldview; loyalty to all government and not America.

"Teaching" is redefined through new training and national licensure rules. Students choose a career cluster at end of 8th grade, limiting curriculum to narrow choice. Class time is spent at job sites for labor training, not in the classroom. "Appointed" local workforce boards match "learners" with local businesses who have requested them. Skill certificates awarded for specific job-readiness.

Certificates will become mandatory for future hiring decisions. Required "Lifework Plan" follows individual from "cradle-to-grave." ALL students, all schools (public, private home-based), all businesses expected to participate.

Federal government forces compliance of all "partners" through rewards and sanctions. Government dominates and controls all partnerships. State defines new "covenant" with parents for raising children. Students, workers, employers, educators and parents held accountable to government-defined "performance" outcomes.

All 50 states are currently implementing system. The current reauthorization of the elementary and secondary education act (HR1/S1) cements the entire system in place. The Bottom Line Government is implementing policies that will lead to poverty, not prosperity, by adopting the failed ideas of a state-planned and managed economy similar to that of the former Soviet Union. In economics, career, and education, government narrows individual choice. This system is based upon a utilitarian worldview that measures human value only in terms of productive capability for the "best interests of the state". Individual freedom is subservient to a collective society. [Source: http://www.edwatch.org/ ]