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EDUCATION ALERT

FLORIDA'S CHILDREN NEED YOUR HELP - CHILDREN FROM OTHER STATES MAY NEED YOUR HELP TOO.

Our Children are at risk with yet another unproven Obama product that doesn't work. Race to the Top is unproven (with the first set of evaluators giving thumbs down), expensive and will take Florida Education and put it in the hands of the Federal Government. Where is this a good idea. Race to the Top (RTTT) is a socialist/communist program and should not be in our schools. Regardless of how you feel about education:

1. We have yet another unproven product to bring to the kids. (every policy and product from this administration failed. Why would we think education would be any different?)
2. In the last 30 years all of the products coming from the DOE FAILED and actually got worse. You can check that in all of the charts graphs and documents on the NAEP web site. Florida is 48 in the country.
3. Since there is so much money involved as well as our children's future, doing another program with the probability of massive failure is not acceptable.
4. This program has no test case and if we look at NCLB it is a dismal failure. Department of Education Secretary Arnie Duncan's answer was to dumb down the classes because they must be too hard.
5. Let's think outside the box and really see what is best for the kids.
Let's set up a test case, before we spent billions.
Let's have some teachers teach RTTT and others teach the TX American curriculum.
Then let's look at performance and $$$ and see what is best.
6. If we look at the IB and AICE program on merit alone, we will find the programs are overly expensive with no significant results, yet we continue to give more and more money to the same failed programs.

This is our future they are playing with and the policies they put in place will be around when our Governor is gone.

The country is broke, why is the Governor asking for another $100 million as another loan from China for a policy that may not be successful. Why do we have to jump into everything without testing it? In addition the whole curriculum is based on man made global warming and we now know this is not true. Why would we start out with a program based on a lie no matter what the books say?

It sounds to me like our Governor doesn't understand what can be accomplished once these programs are in the schools with mind control, psychology and brainwashing.

GO TO THE BEAR WITNESS EDUCATION CENTRAL PAGE TO READ WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT EDUCATION IN AMERICA

CALL CONGRESS TODAY!

Call Congress today and stop Race to Tyranny from being used in Florida Schools or any other state.

CONTACT INFORMATION

They want our input: GO TO Educationinput@Floridasenate.gov

Governor Scott's information is phone 850-488-7146, Fax: 850-487-0801, email: rick.scott@eog.myflorida.com

This Senator supports Race To The Top

Senator Stephen R. Wise (R) - wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov,

Wise wants Race to the Top and is sponsoring Senate Bill: 736

http://www.youtube.com/v/ieHc-ULt5-0 to hear him praise RTTT

District Office:

1460 Cassat Avenue
Suite B
Jacksonville, FL 32205
(904) 381-6000
Senate VOIP: 40500
FAX (904) 381-6040

Legislative Assistants:

Dee Alexander, Carol Chastain and Steven Richardson

Tallahassee Office:

410 Senate Office Building
404 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1100
(850) 487-5027
Senate VOIP: 5027

Senator Lizbeth Benacquisto (R)    - Benacquisto.lizbeth.web@flsenate.gov,

detert.nancy.web@flsenate.gov

District Address:
Suite D
417 Commercial Court
Venice, FL   34292
Phone: (941) 480-3547
Fax: (941) 480-3549

Legislative Address:
318 Senate Office Bldg.
404 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL   32399-1100
Phone: (850) 487-5081

Legislative Assistant:
GeeDee Kerr, Rita Faulkner, Charlie Anderson

PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee

Adkins, Janet H. (R) Janet.Adkins@myfloridahouse.gov

Bileca, Michael (R) Michael.Bileca@myfloridahouse.gov

Gaetz, Matt (R) Matt.Gaetz@myfloridahouse.gov

Metz, Larry (R) - Larry.Metz@myfloridahouse.gov

Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee

O'Toole, H. Marlene (R) -The Villages

Capitol Office Phone: (850) 488-5991

K-20 Innovation Subcommittee Gaetz, Matt (R) Matt.Gaetz@myfloridahouse.gov

Vice Chair

Matt.Gaetz @myfloridahouse.gov

Capitol Office

1003 The Capitol

402 South Monroe Street

Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300

Phone: (850) 488-1170

District Office:

1188 Eglin Parkway

Shalimar, FL 32579-1227

Phone: (850) 833-9328

Adkins, Janet H. (R) Janet.Adkins@myfloridahouse.gov

313 House Office Building

402 South Monroe Street

Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300

Phone: (850) 488-6920

District Office:

905 South 8th Street

Fernandina Beach, FL 32034-3706

Phone: (904) 491-3664

Metz, Larry (R) Larry.Metz@myfloridahouse.gov

Capitol Office:

1101 The Capitol

402 South Monroe Street

Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300

Phone: (850) 488-0348

District Office:

301 West Ward Avenue

Eustis, FL 32726-4033

Phone: (352) 742-6275

Plakon, Scott (R ) Scott.Plakon@myfloridahouse.gov

Capitol Office:

317 House Office Building

402 South Monroe Street

Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300

Phone: (850) 488-2231

District Office:

Suite 242

1855 West State Road 434

Longwood, FL 32750-5071

Phone: (407) 262-7520

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