Issue Position: Federal
Issue Position
* Federal Overreach - The 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." No where in the United States Constitution have "We the People" given authority to the Federal government to dictate to the States what Education policies should look like. Clearly the role of the Federal Government as expanded beyond its jurisdiction.
* Education Funding - Utah's K-12 budget is just over $5 Billion. Less than 9% of that comes from the Federal Government for specific programs. Some of those programs like the most recently talked about, Title IX, are not given to every school district. or every school.
Data Mining - Since 2011, Utah has received State Longitudinal Data System Federal grant money in the total sum of close to $40 million. That money goes to hard ware and software development to collect the data from our children's testing.
In December of 2011, then Secretary of Education, Arnie Duncan changed the regulations of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Now third party shareholders have access your children's data and they will profile them without your consent or knowledge. It was declared "best practice" but not necessary to obtain parental permission.
* Every Student Succeeds Act - The new Education policy of the United States, it passed through Congress and signed into law in December of 2015. This law replaces the name "No Child Left Behind" but significantly increases what we all hated about NCLB. 1061 pages have outlined everything from Independent schools, including homeschools and private schools, to teachers, charters, funding, homeless students, parenting classes, communities, revising of tax code, data collecting, technology, etc and the starting point of having State School Boards submit their State's Education Policies to the Department of Education for approval. -- This is extremely dangerous overreach.
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