Nov. 11, 1992 Marc Tucker (President – National Center of Education and the Economy - NCEE) sends the infamous “Dear Hillary” letter.
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On Sept. 25, 1998, Rep. Bob Schaffer placed in the Congressional Record an 18-page letter that has become famous as Marc Tucker's "Dear Hillary" letter. It lays out the master plan of the Clinton Administration to take over the entire U.S. educational system so that it can serve national economic
planning of the workforce.
The "Dear Hillary" letter, written on Nov. 11, 1992 by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), lays out a plan "to remold the entire American system" into "a seamless web that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone," coordinated by "a system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels" where curriculum and "job matching" will be handled by counselors "accessing the integrated computer-based program."
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This letter clearly laid out a plan "to remold the entire American system" where curriculum and "job matching" will be handled by government functionaries controlled primarily by the President and others in the United States executive branch who form partnerships with selected private corporate companies and foundations. This is now the blueprint for the Common Core plan.
From Marc Tucker - Nov. 11, 1992
18 page letter lays out a plan to
"Remold the entire American System" into
"a seamless web that literally extends from Cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone."
Coordinated by
"a system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels"
where curriculum and
"job matching"
will be handled by councelors
"accessing the integrated computer-based program.
Tucker's plan would change the mission of the schools from teaching children academic basics and knowledge to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards. Very little in this comprehensive plan has anything to do with teaching school children how to read, write, or calculate.
Tucker's ambitious plan was implemented in three laws passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1994: the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, the School-to-Work Act, and the fifth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. These laws establish the following mechanisms to restructure the public schools throughout America:
1. Bypass all elected officials on school boards and in State legislatures by making federal funds flow to the Governor and his appointees on workforce development boards.
2. Use a computer database, a.k.a. "a labor market information system," into which school personnel would scan all information about every schoolchild and his family, identified by the child's social security number: academic, medical, mental, psychological, behavioral, and interrogations by counselors. The computerized data would be available to the school, the government, and future employers.
3. Use "national standards" and "national testing" to cement national control of tests, assessments, school honors and rewards, financial aid, and the Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM), which is designed to replace the high school diploma.
Designed on the German system, the Tucker plan is to train children in specific jobs to serve the workforce and the global economy instead of to educate them so they can make their own life choices.