Taxpayer-funded International Baccalaureate Program Undermines U.S. Founding Principles
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. | September 1, 2016 National Center for Policy Analysis
American taxpayers are funding a public school curriculum commissioned by the United Nations that is at odds with our nation’s founding principles. According to the International Baccalaureate Organization Subject Guide (1996), “An international education must go well beyond the provision of information and is involved in the development of attitudes and values which transcend barriers of race, class, religion, gender or politics.”
As the U.S. Congress returns to Washington from summer recess, it will resolve the differences in their two radical bills to arrive at a final package for reauthorizing the unconstitutional Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). This is Washington’s primary mechanism to steal control of education from parents and local communities. This law opened a tsunami of federal funding to schools, initiating the federalization of schools. ESEA was amended in 2002 with the widely reviled No Child Left Behind Act, imposing a radical program of high stakes testing and federalizing the curriculum in schools.