[ExI] common core educations standards, was: RE: far future

[Kelly Anderson]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Mirco Romanato <painlord2k at libero.it>wrote:

> Il 21/01/2014 00:46, Adrian Tymes ha scritto:
>
> > But is Congress passing a law here?  No.  Is it illegal to teach
> > non-CC?  No.  You might not get funding from the feds if you do not, but
> > nothing in the US Constitution requires the feds to fund any particular
> > educational model; it just says they may promote this sort of thing (so
> > long as, for example, they maintain separation of church and state - and
> > no, not just any worldview can be called "church" in that sense).
>
> I would see the utility of a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the
> federal government to give any money to state or local government.
>

Ooh, I like that one. Then states would have to collect what they need from
the local citizenry, instead of Texas paying for the excesses of
California. The only problem would be how to get a super majority of states
to ratify it when a lot of states probably get more out than they put in?

-Kelly
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