Interstate Compact For Education
The Interstate Compacts law was an idea that came about as a result of LBJ's Great Society. It called for an appointed Education Council giving the Governor the power to appoint the Chairman and the majority of members. This took the power and responsibility away from local elected school board officials and gave it to the governor. This has been the way that the 'one-size fits all', national and international agendas have been implemented in our schools.
33-4102. ESTABLISHING THE IDAHO EDUCATION COUNCIL. There is hereby established the "Idaho Education Council" composed of the members of the "Education Commission of the States" representing this state, and eight other persons appointed by the governor for terms of three years.
Obviously the Idaho State Board of Education serves as the Idaho Education Council. A list of ECS members involved in Idaho education was obtained at a 2004 conference in Boise.
There has been a concerted effort to deceive the public into thinking that there is still local control of the schools while the national and international agenda has been implemented. Last year's proposed high school redesign is a classic example. The concept was presented as ideas coming from Idaho school officials and the Governor - when the truth is - this is a nationwide agenda that came from the Aspen Institute and the National Center for Education and the Economy, probably through the Education Commission for the States - through the National Governor's Association to the Governor, to the Idaho School Board. Public meetings were held on the high school redesign plan, and the public overwhelmingly rejected it.
This is a link to the Governor's 2007 budget request. Notice the request for $1 million dollars to cover high school redesign. The governor decided that the parents, students, teachers, administrators and voters don't count. He is planning on the high school redesign over their objections.
And just because people didn't want the high school redesign plan, didn't mean that the Idaho State School Board dropped the plan. No... they just slipped a lot of it into the 2007 Administrative Rules and the Idaho state legislature Education Committee graciously voted to approve it.
Private foundations like the Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation, Carnegie and Ford pay a lot of the 'marketing' and startup costs of implementing the programs through grants. The taxpayers are then asked to pickup the on-going costs for the programs.
The whole thing is a scheme to implement the national and international agenda in our schools. It does an end around run of elected, representative government - usurping the power of elected representatives which in turn usurps the power of voters control their government.
From the 'History of the Education Commission of the States'
The idea of an interstate compact on education was set forth in the mid-1960s by James Bryant Conant, an educator, scientist and diplomat who had served as the president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953.
Writing at a time when the GI Bill, the National Defense Education Act, the Great Society legislation and other initiatives had greatly enlarged the federal role in education, Conant, in his 1964 book Shaping Education Policy, called for a kind of counterbalance - a mechanism for improving and strengthening education policy and policymaking at the state level. Such a mechanism, he said, would give voice to the diverse interests, needs and traditions of states, enable them to cooperate and communicate with one another, and promote their working together to focus national attention on the pressing education issues of the day.
In early 1965, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ford Foundation awarded grants to Terry Sanford, who had recently left the governorship of North Carolina, to transform Conant's idea into reality.
A draft of the interstate compact envisioned by Conant was completed in July 1965 and endorsed by representatives from all 50 states and the U.S. territories at a meeting in Kansas City two months later. By the time the functional arm of the compact, the Education Commission of the States (ECS), held its first annual meeting in Chicago in June 1966, 36 states had formally ratified the compact. (Since then, all 50 states and three territories have joined the Compact for Education, either by legislative action or executive order of the governor.)
Keeping Track
ECS keeps track of each state's progress at implementing the agenda they have set out. The following link is to the ECS page that lists the agenda items
http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/educationIssues/ECSStateNotes.asp
The following is a link to a 50 state comparison of the Kindergarten Screening and Assessment Requirements:
http://mb2.ecs.org/reports/Report.aspx?id=31
What a deal, right? They set the agenda for the schools. They measure the progress. When the schools fail, they design a new agenda. It's a self-perpetuating industry - and the children pay the highest price of all for it - ignorance (although the taxpayers get hit pretty hard for it too).