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.”
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John Stuart Mill, nineteenth century philosopher, characterized government schools in his 1859 treatise 
John Stuart Mill, called the “most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century," characterized government schools in his 1859 treatise