(updated) Governor Paul LePage Is Killing Education

DEFINITION OF POISON!!!!!!!!!!

Do we in Maine know what we are allowing Governor LePage to do? Do we REALLY understand?

How do you like this? Especially Bullet No. 3! (bolded provision!!!!!) That is the END of religious education in Maine, and it is the end of “academic” education as well, in order to implement, through charter schools, lifelong Soviet system of polytech work force training using Skinnerian/Pavlovian operant conditioning software on the computer.

LD 1529 ”An Act to Expand School Choice for Maine Students“

Removes 10-school cap on the number of charter schools approved by the Maine Charter School Commission
Allows colleges and universities to authorize charter schools
Permits religious schools to accept public dollars
Broadens customized learning opportunities (public and private options) for kids who are eligible for the free or reduced-price lunch program

And, don’t forget that Maine Heritage’s parent organizaton, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C. drafted the North American Free Trade Agreement which has robbed our people of hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs. Use of dialectic: create problem: NAFTA (loss of jobs), impose the solution: change economic system from free market to planned economy with public/private partnerships (charter schools with their unelected boards…taxation without representation)) necessary for global work force training, using our children to spin off profits for the global economy!

France is a good example of how state-funded private religious education resulted in the destruction of religious education. Started under the Vichy Government (Nazi Germany) during World War II and was continued through to today. I have all the research on the French case.

I’ll pay $100 to anyone who can prove me wrong.

Also, why would any of us support a school choice agenda that is supported by the following organizations:

1. Heritage Foundation and other neoconservative Trotskyite organziations

2. The Rockefeller, globalist Council on Foreign Relations

3. The leftist Obama Administration

All I can say to so-called conservative Republicans who are supporting this agenda:

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.

Documentation regarding this agenda, which was spawned out of my old office in the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (Reagan Administration), can be found in my bok “the deliberate dumbing down of america…A Chronological Paper Trail” which is a free download at http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com. The updated, revised version covering (1999-2011) is available at http://www.amazon.com

Please forward this email far and wide!

The Carnegie Corporation’s “Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies” 1934, calls for this exact agenda (charter schools, with their unelected boards, to be used for Soviet work force training purposes).  Go to http://www.americandeception.com and type word “Conclusions” into the search engine for this little book.  Here is Abstract describing book, taken from American Deception website:

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“Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies”, funded by the tax-exempt Carnegie Corporation of New York, published in 1934, is the most important report ever written on the future of American education. All its recommendations and its philosophy are an intrinsic part of education in the United States today. Professor Harold Laski, a philosopher of British socialism, said of this report: “At bottom, and stripped of its carefully neutral phrases, the report is an educational program for a ‘Socialist America’. One excerpt from this important report reads “The implications for education are clear and imperative: (a) the efficient functioning of the emerging economy and the full utilization of its potentialities require profound changes in the attitudes and outlook of the American people, especially the rising generation–a complete and frank recognition that the old order is passing, that the new order is emerging, (pp. 34-35).

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Former Senior Policy Advisor
U.S. Department of Education

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com

http://www.americandeception.com

To order the updated abridged 2011 version of “the deliberate dumbing down of america”, it is available from 3D Research at Amazon.com.

update

Here is the original Maine Heritage Policy Center Alert: Great Schools for Maine.  It documents MHPC’s  role in Maine’s education policies.   Your state undoubtedly has one of these D.C. Heritage clones messing with your state’s public policy.  Be sure to check it out.

May 15, 2013

Once again, it’s time for “We the people of Maine” to take action. While the majority party and others in Augusta have been busy clowning around and sponsoring foolish bills, The Maine Heritage Policy Center is standing vigilant in advocating our – your – freedoms!

We need your help!

Please join MHPC’s Great Schools for Maine in supporting Governor LePage’s expansion of Customized Learning opportunities for Maine students.

When: 9:00 a.m., Friday, May 17

Where: Room 202, Cross Building, Augusta

What: 3-minute public testimonies (print and bring with you 15-25 copies of your written testimony)

Specific bills of interest:  

LD 1529 ”An Act to Expand School Choice for Maine Students“

• Removes 10-school cap on the number of charter schools approved by the Maine Charter School Commission
• Allows colleges and universities to authorize charter schools
• Permits religious schools to accept public dollars
• Broadens customized learning opportunities (public and private options) for kids who are eligible for the free or reduced-price lunch program

LD 1510 ”An Act to Ensure Statewide Accountability and Improvement“

• Establishes that a school which does not meet “basic approval” standards must develop and follow a “corrective action plan”
• Allows the Commissioner of Education to help improve all failing schools (not just the ones identified as Title I through No Child Left Behind)
• Gives students who attend schools, which have lost “basic approval” or refuse to follow the steps for “basic approval,” the ability to enroll in another public or private school which meets their needs and interests.

Not able to make it to Augusta this Friday? 

 

Even if you are unable to join us in Augusta, we still need you to take action. Please take time to contact your legislator and those on the Education and Cultural Affairs committee by phone or letter.

 Together, we will make a difference! 

Will you stand vigilant with The Maine Heritage Policy Center and defend freedom today?

 

What Gives With Bangor Daily News?

4.10.13

Today the “LePage proposes taking money from education aid for legal defense” article is published in full with no restrictions attached.

 

Below are two articles posted in today’s Bangor Daily Newspaper. However, in order to read the entire article you must “answer a question to continue reading the page.”

LePage proposes taking money from education aid for legal defense

By Christopher Cousins, BDN Staff

AUGUSTA, Maine — Two legislative committees have rejected two proposals by Gov. Paul LePage to create a total of $1.3 million in legal defense funds.

On Monday, the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee voted 10-2 against a $1 million provision in LePage’s biennial budget proposal which would have taken money from general purpose aid for education to create a legal defense fund for the state Board of Education, the Department of Education and the Maine Charter School Commission. …

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Gatekeepers In Maine Governor LePage’s Office At It Again!

A constituent (a veteran) sent a letter to Governor Paul LePage about our veteran heroes being under attack by our own government and requesting assistance from his office. View response from Patricia Condon, Director, Constituent Services and veteran’s response to Ms. Condon.

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Have you heard yet from Governor Lepage?

Stay tuned for more on state gatekeepers!

 

 

 

[new post] Maine Governor Paul LePage Pulls Out Of Membership In The National Governors Association

BDN reports “Gov. Paul LePage has pulled the state out of membership in the National Governors Association because he says Maine is not getting enough benefits for its $60,000-a-year membership fee. “I get no value out of those meetings,” he said. “They are too politically correct and everybody is lovey-dovey and no decisions are ever made. There are some tough decisions that need to be made in this country and we need to start making them.”

“Jodi Omear, director of communications for the NGA, said in an email that LePage is still considered a member of the organization even if the state has stopped paying dues. She said all the governors of the 50 states and five territories are members, even if they do not pay dues.”

[new post] Maine Governor LePage And House Leader Emily Cain Vow To Reform Government Ethics

Sun Journal reports  ”Republican Gov. Paul LePage and House Democratic leader Emily Cain are responding to a national report that gave Maine government an “F” for its potential for corruption. Maine ranked 46th in the “State Integrity Investigation” by three nonpartisan good government groups that was released in mid-March.”

“Cain on Tuesday submitted a “concept draft” bill, “An Act to Strengthen Maine’s Ethics Laws and Improve Public Access to Information,” that she hopes will provide a vehicle for bipartisan reform proposals.” “And we can say to ourselves: why did we get scored that way and can we take a look at ourselves in the mirror and say what do we want to be known for?”

“LePage’s acting chief legal counsel, Michael Cianchette, said “rewriting ethics laws and finding best practices is a big objective.” “While the goal is to address a range of problems identified in the report, Cianchette said he believes the legislation will ultimately “focus in on a few red flag areas.”

Says Cain “what I’d like to see happen is not only an end result that increases trust in state government, but a process that reflects and leads to an increased trust as well.”

“It’s not a Republican or Democrat issues said Cianchette. It’s a transparency issue.”

Maine Corruption Risk Report Card

I’m happy to hear that Gov. LePage and Rep. Emily Cain have at least indicated there is a problem. However, they would learn from the people where the problems lie if they were willing to talk with us, rather than the likes of Sen. Barry Hobbins, Sen. Jon Courtney, Rep. Alan Casavant & Co.

Rep. Cain wonders “why did we get scored that way?” She certainly won’t get the answers from Maine’s legislators. So many of them have been hand-delivered documented evidence of the corruption that has been ongoing for decades. We’ve all gotten the same answer “there’s nothing I can do!” They’ve done plenty……covered up! The “red flags” have flown in front of their faces, including Maine’s constitutional officers.

We don’t need more laws….they don’t uphold what’s on the books as it is. (And too many unconstitutional – those, they make exception) Unfortunately, it has been a Republican/Democrat issue. Each party covers each others butts. The reason being….they listen to each other. They are as transparent as saran wrap….we can see right through them. They don’t have to worry about the people exposing them. They are doing that all by themselves with their silence on the abuses, brutalities and atrocities inflicted upon their constituents!

If Governor LePage and Rep. Cain are serious about this effort, they can start with the removal of all members of the Committee on Judicial Responsibility and Disability which will remove the conflicts of interest…..THE root of the problems. Then follow up with the people.  Governor LePage and Rep. Cain can get “a range of problems” straight from the horses’ mouths, rather than from the southern end of a northbound horse.

[new post] Congressional Testimony: Dottie Lafortune to Bill Windsor of Lawless America in Maine

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[update] MAINE GOVERNOR LEPAGE SHOULD LOOK BEYOND “EDUCATION SHORTCOMINGS”

7.30.12

PPH reports “Students’ readiness for college a U.S. issue.” Click here…..see the surprise!

I mentioned in this article posted “the dumbing down is all across America.”

PPH reports “Governor comes under fire for remarks about Maine education shortcomings. “I don’t care where you go in this country — if you come from Maine, you’re looked down upon now,” the governor said.”

Perhaps Governor LePage should try another attempt at listening to the people instead of his uninformed, uneducated administrative staff. Perhaps the reason Maine is “looked down upon now” has not much to do with “education shortcomings.” The dumbing down is all across America.

Unfortunately, Maine has suffered many “black eyes” due to the national exposure of the corruption in this state. Click here, click here.

Perhaps one day, Governor LePage will have a light bulb moment….he’ll listen to people in the know. If not, he can watch it all on Lawless America……..The Movie. Also, click here.

[update] A PLEA FOR HELP! DHS ABUSE IN MAINE MARCHES ON

7.19.12

I received this message from Heather today.

Heather wrote: “I just got off the phone with Peter himself and he was all excited saying he is getting out tomorrow.” “I was informed Wednesday morning that the evaluation process on admittance takes 7 days minimum, and they do not allow anyone to leave until the evaluation is complete.”

Peter will be leaving the institution, however, the DHS still have their claws in him. He will not be going home to his mother.
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A mother’s plea for help. These kids are crying out for help…..not from the DHS or foster parents….. They want to be home with their mother.

Heather and Wayne Taylor are fighting the return of their children from foster care. Their 9 year old son was placed in the Halifax house, an institution. He confirmed today that he is the only child in the facility.

Heather reports “They locked my son up because he was not afraid to tell everyone what was going on inside the foster home.”

“We will have no further visits with him while he is hospitalized, and seems he will be there for an extended period of time. When I finally got to speak with Peter at 4:20 p.m., he sounded very sad and asked me when he could come home. He said he was playing legos and made a house like ours, with no upstairs, and it has a “secret room”. He was all drugged up.  I called him again at 5:39 p.m. and he asked me three times when he can come home. He asked me if I was still fighting in court and then asked when my next court battle was. I told him I did not know and he said “momma I hope you win this court battle so we can come home”.

This is cruel and abusive treatment…….both for the family and the child. The parents have been to Governor LePage’s office for help. There is nothing they can do! How many times have I heard this same excuse!!

Governor LePage uses his own personal experience to raise awareness of abuse. Lepage has frequently refered to beatings and neglect he suffered as a child. “I am sad to say that my childhood memories are ravaged with domestic violence. Those memories are not pleasant, but I will share my past to help end domestic abuse,” LePage said. The real way to stop (domestic violence) is engaging with families early and educating people,” Cain said. “Victims of domestic abuse should not have to live in fear of their abusers.” We must come together to end domestic violence and make it socially unacceptable in our state,” continued the Governor.

Governor LePage, do you not think that this child, locked up in an institution, will not be haunted by his childhood memories? Abuse is abuse! Abuse is defined as any thing that is harmful, injurious, or offensive. Abuse also includes excessive and wrongful misuse of anything. There are several major types of abuse: physical and sexual abuse of a child or an adult, substance abuse, elderly abuse, and emotional abuse. Ending abuse in this state “is engaging with families and educating people.” Past officials and governors John Baldacci, Angus King turned a deaf ear to abuse in this state. Please don’t follow suit! Officials and DHS are incapable of educating people on abuse as they are ”the problem.” DHS is the abuser! Some of us have lost our parents due to abuse. Abuse has no age limit. Take care of the abuse in this state!

Please help the Taylor family. Make calls to the following and demand that action be taken in this case. 

Governor Paul LePage – 207-287-3531; Fax 207-287-1034

Mary Mayhew, Commissioner, Department of Health and Human Services – Phone: (207) 287-3707; Fax 207-287-3005         

Barbara Keene – DHHS – 207-624-5392

Cathy Cyr (Barbara Keene’s supervisor) – (207) 287-3707 

Gardiner Family Practice (Sheila the triage nurse) 207-582-6608

You may contact Heather at 207-215-5081, email is heewee@fairpoint.net and fax is 207-268-2410.

[new post] GOVERNOR LEPAGE LEAVES OUT IMPORTANT ISSUE IN HIS WANT TO WEED OUT EXCESS AND ABUSE AT DHHS – ACCOUNTABILITY

The Maine Wire reports the first of a series of exclusive interviews with Governor Paul R. LePage.

“We are trying to make sure that we have a solid safety net for our children, our elderly and our disabled, LePage said. We are trying to attack those who are abusing the system.”

“He is trying to weed out excess and abuse at DHHS while maintaining vital services for those who truly need it. But Democrats like Rotundo insist that claims of welfare abuse are merely anecdotal, even as many cases of fraud are now being investigated. Senator Craven, another Lewiston Democrat who supported massive increases in state spending under Governor Baldacci, frequently joins Rotundo in insisting that there is no widespread abuse of the welfare system in Maine. Whenever someone relates a story about welfare fraud or abuse, they claim the stories are merely anecdotal and, therefore, don’t prove anything.”

“If those are all anecdotal, then where’s the money going?” LePage said. “Why are we spending so much money?”

“How did Maine get into a position where it spends so much more the national average? The biggest mistake that Maine ever made was electing an independent governor in 1993, LePage said, referring to Angus King. When King took office, the state had a surplus in the budget. When he vacated the Blaine House, King left a one-billion-dollar shortfall for incoming governor John Baldacci, LePage said. That shortfall was carried through Baldacci’s term, and LePage is determined to get rid of it.”

Governor LePage is leaving out an important issue in his want to weed out excess and abuse at DHHS – ACCOUNTABILITY.  He must demand an investigation into the  “miscalcuations” of monies given to corporations that were not licensed at the time of receipt of Medicaid funding. This is one example, how many more got away with it?

LePage refers to the state having a surplus in the budget when Angus King took office. When he vacated the Blaine House, King left a one-billion-dollar shortfall. When King took office, he immediately issued a hiring freeze, however, Attorney Michelle Robert was hired for a position in the A.G.’s Office – perhaps a pay-back for playing games with Judge Robert E. Crowley, Saco Biddeford Savings Institution, their law firm Smith Elliott & Garmey (Attys Roger Elliott & Harry Center)?

King obviously used the surplus to create 147 positions.  Since Maine didn’t have these administrative costs prior to Angus King, why do we need them now? Is this not also excess and abuse of taxpayers who pay for Maine’s government?

LePage wants to know where all the money has gone?

King is running as an independent for the vacancy created by Republican U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe.

[new post] MAINE GOV. PAUL LEPAGE’S COMMENTS ON ‘CORRUPT’ STATE WORKERS ARE NOT “BASELESS” – THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING

BDN reports “LePage stirs ruckus after calling state workers ‘corrupt’. LePage went on to say that “middle management of the state is about as corrupt as can be.” “Maine State Employees Association President Ginette Rivard called LePage’s comments “baseless and insulting” to all public workers.”

Gov. LePage letter to state employees.

Related: click here, click here.

Corruption in the state of Maine has been ongoing for decades.  For starters:

Most Powerful, Revealing Video By Tom Dunn

G. Arthur Brennan – Timeline Synopsis

Brennan Criminal Legacy

Dunn Complaint Kennebec Sheriff Dept.

Bus trip to Washington DC

A FULL STOMACH HAS NO CONSCIENCE!

MAINE A.G. WILLIAM SCHNEIDER’S SELECTIVE “ELECTION-RELATED FRAUD”

DOUBLE STANDARDS IN MAINE POLITICS

(Ronald McKinnon, Dept. of Economic & Community Development

Bureau of Financial Institutions, Lloyd LaFountain

Bureau of Insurance, Mila Kofman

HUD

Attorney General’s Office (inc. Criminal Complaint)

Secretary of State

State Auditor, Neria Douglass (3 letters – no responses)

Department of Human Services (elder abuse, nursing homes, evidence of Medicaid fraud)

Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, Jonathan Wayne

Municipalities – Biddeford, Saco, Lisbon

Committee on Judicial Responsibility and Disability)

JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS IN MAINE – SOMETHING TO KEEP AN EYE ON!

(The members of the Governor’s Judicial Selection Committee)

(Committee on Judicial Responsibility and Disability.)

ARE MAINE ELECTIONS POLITICALLY CONTROLLED?

A.G. Andrew Ketterer.  Also, click here.

PREVENT TRUTH DECAY

 MAINE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES BEING SUED

MAINE JUDGE G. ARTHUR BRENNAN TO RETIRE

HOW COZY A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAINE DHS, THE SHALOM HOUSE, CHIEF JUSTICE LEIGH SAUFLEY AND KENNEBUNK SAVINGS BANK?

SO GOES MAINE……

Still Waiting Elizabeth Mitchell!

SUMMERS, CHARLES, SEC. OF STATE – VOTER FRAUD

 FOAA request to Secretary of State Charles Summers

Secretary of State Charles Summers’ response to FOAA request

Letter to Secretary of State Charles Summers (he didn’t didn’t find that tampering with absentee ballots and the US mail is “not significant evidence to support an investigation???)

Letter to Gov. Angus King, 1998.

Letter to Sen. Susan Collins, January 11, 2001.

KING ADM. – 147 POSITIONS

BALDACCI – BUSINESS AS USUAL (Portland Phoenix)

 THE BALDACCI CONNECTION

SACO ISLAND – HARPER’S DEVELOPMENT

Involves Senator Barry Hobbins.

SACO ISLAND

GLESSNER, J. ADM. COURTS 1-16-2010

A.G. JANET MILLS 4-8-10 NOTICE & DEMAND

 Letter to Sawin Millett, Comm., April 26, 2012

State questioned about overtime. Three departments paid out more than $18.5 million in overtime.

Maine Turnpike Authority Executive Director Paul E. Violette sentenced for the theft of Maine Turnpike Authority funds.

Luxury Hotels, Magicians, and Massage: Maine Housing Vendor List Reveals Questionable Expenditures.

Maine Housing Vendor List

MaineHousing Director Dale McCormick Resigns

This is just the tip of the iceberg! State legislators are part of the pudding!

Also view The Clarion Edict.  This online news media reports what our mainstream media refuses to report. Be sure to view the archives on the ongoing corruption in Maine.

The Tom Dunn video reveals, and supports, the Clarion Edict’s reason for reporting what the controlled media will not report. I encourage all to send in your horror stories to the Clarion Edict.