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“The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”
Those words are the entire content of a new bill, H.R. 899. This bill was introduced by courageous Congressman Thomas Massie (R – Kentucky).
H.R. 899 is revolutionary.
H.R. 899 will end the destruction of America’s education system.
H.R. 899 should have been introduced 37 years ago.
But no Republican has had the courage to do the right thing in all those years – until now.
That’s why I’m asking you to stand with this courageous Congressman to help him get this vital bill passed in Congress and delivered to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
Please sign the enclosed petition to Congressman Massie telling him you support H.R.899.
PETITION TO: TERMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
And I will personally deliver your signed petition to him so that he may display yours and thousands more to show Congress the American people demand an end to the federal Department of Education.
This is what you and I have been waiting for.
It’s the end of the federal government messing with the minds of our children, indoctrinating them with leftist propaganda.
The end of Common Core!
The end of the power of the National Education Association (NEA) the most powerful union in the nation – and the one that directly affects your child’s future!
These programs and policies are the NEA’s agenda:
Goals 2000, School to Work, Workforce Development Boards, pumping drugs like Ritalin into our children. And now today – Common Core.
Classrooms are torturing your children with idiotic programs like Common
Core where the questions make no sense – defy logic and cause them to quit.
American history has been removed. Instead of learning about the Declaration of Independence the children have been indoctrinated to accept the UN’s Declaration on Human Rights.
Academics have nearly disappeared from the classroom and the children are pummeled with propaganda on global warming.
The Department of Education’s policy is to determine that your children are sick if they believe in their nation as a bastion of freedom. Or if they love God and their families.
As a result of 38 years of the Department of Education our children have been successfully turned into ignorant, pliable global village idiots!
Does that sound harsh?
Then take a good look around you. Look at the surge of young people who unquestioningly supported avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders for president.
Look at the sick images of college students who need counseling and coloring books to deal with anyone who expresses opinions other than those deemed to be politically correct by the Education establishment.
It’s all fed through the Department of Education. And if our nation is to survive it must stop!
That’s why you and I must take a stand to help Rep. Massie succeed in terminating the Department of Education.
PETITION TO: TERMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
In introducing his H.R. 899 Rep. Massie said, “States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students.”
And he is absolutely right.
That’s why we have 50 state school boards. And it’s why nearly every community in the nation has a locally-elected school board – so parents have a say in their child’s education.
Through that system of local control the United States education system was the envy of the world. Today it is a pathetic failure.
H.R. 899 has been long overdue.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan promised to get rid of the Department of Education that was started by Jimmy Carter just a year before. Reagan was betrayed by the same type of establishment Republicans that now threaten Donald Trump.
In 1996 the Republican Party Platform said the “federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in school curricula… That is why we will abolish the Department of Education, end federal meddling in our schools and promote family choice at all levels of learning.”
Republicans lost the presidential race that year and so the Department of Education survived.
Today you and I have a new chance.
During the recent campaign, President Trump called for slashing the Department of Education Budget. He certainly sees the danger.
And I am quite certain that new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would gladly see her position ended if it also meant the end of the Department of Education. That would be a victory for her and the Trump Administration.
PETITION TO: TERMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
So let’s take the right action today.
Let’s end the power of the National Education Association.
Let’s save generations of children from being enslaved in ignorance.
Let’s save millions of tax payer dollars.
And let’s take the first vital steps in draining the swamp and restoring our nation’s precious Republic.
All of that can be achieved by passing a simple one-line bill.
“The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”
It’s that simple.
I started my fight against the Department of Education in the 1990s when Bill Clinton was president. He had introduced Goals 2000 and the rest of the policies to change our education system. This was before Common Core.
I walked all over Capitol Hills meeting with Members of Congress, begging them to stop these programs. Incredibly, Republicans were actually sponsoring many of them.
I actually succeeded three times in stopping the passage of the Workforce Development Act – then called the Careers Act – until I was betrayed by a U.S. Senator from Ohio – Mike DeWine. He lied on the floor of the Senate by saying I and Phyllis Schlafly supported the bill. His lie passed the bill.
Please, join with me in supporting Congressman Thomas Massie’s bill H. R. 899. We can finally terminate the federal Department of Education and return education policy to the local level where you have a say in how it is done!
Please sign my enclosed petition of support to Rep. Massie so he can prove the American people support his bill and demand an end to the Department of Education.
PETITION TO: TERMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Also, if you can, please call you congressman and ask for his support of the bill. In fact, if you can, ask him/her to co-sponsor it. He has 7 co-sponsors so far. If we can get 50 Members of Congress to sign on we can pass H.R. 899!
You can call your Congressional Representative at 202-224-3121. Just ask for him/her by name. You will be automatically connected.
I am doing everything I can to build support for the bill. Will you help me lead that effort across the country?
But we can win this battle to terminate the Department of Education because the American people are finally fed up with these tyrannical policies of the Left. We’ve never had a better opportunity.
H.R. 899 is our best chance to stop the destruction of our American way.
PETITION TO: TERMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Thank you,
Tom DeWeese
President American Policy Center
