NSRF April 2014 Newsletter

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Common Core is in the news. Democrats call it Race to the Top while Republicans know its Sink to theBottom. Find out whats going on with your local School Board concerning this and other issues at the ne

NSRF meeting on Saturday, April 5th. Note that due to the Colorado State GOP Assembly on April 12th, we

moved our meeting up one week. The doors open at 8:30am for our 9:00am-10:30am meeting at the Grill a

Legacy Ridge Golf Course, 10801 Legacy Ridge Parkway in Westminster. Admission is $7 per person and y

can pay your 2014 NSRF dues of $20. Coffee, orange juice, fruit & pastries are included with your admissio

NSRF upcoming calendar in 2014:

April 12Colorado State GOP Assembly at Coors Events Center in Boulder

May 102014 Colorado Legislative Recap with your State members

June 14Local City Council members update us on their communities

July 12County government officials will answer your questions

August 9 -- Transportation issues and FasTraks with RTDs District J director, Larry Hoy

September 13Candidates on the November 4th

ballot

October 11Discussion on the November ballot issues

November 8Celebration of the November 4th

election results

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If you havent checked out our web site (www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.org ),these ar

the latest articles that have been posted:

Official Call Colorado GOP State Assembly & Convention on Saturday, April 12, 2014

Adams County Republican 2014 Assembly Rules

2014 Adams County Republican Delegates and Alternates List

Boulder County GOP Events

2014 Governor/U.S. Senate Candidate Forum on Saturday Morning May 3, 2014

Study: Statewide Fracking Ban would cost $12 Billion & 93,000 jobs by 2040

Hitler finds out Obamacare will not let him keep his doctor

Adams County Republicans 2014 PCP list

Campaign and Political Finance Training

Internships Available

Save the Dates!

Colorado Governor candidate Mike Kopp Meet and Greet

Angry Mother Destroys Common Core by writing this on her sons test

Choice Words That Win

Candidate signs, banners, tables, & literature information at the AdCo GOP Assembly

Suspending My Campaign
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Colorado Republican Congressional District 7 Committee Official Call

Jefferson County School District Open Contract Negotiations

Official Call 2014 Sixth Congressional District Republican Assembly

Hydraulic Fracturing Speakers Bureau Training

Choose the color for the next GOP bumper sticker

Henninger: Republican Roulette. The GOP presidential slate looks like a chaotic casino of ideas

Dinesh DSouzas New Move America asks an Amazing Question

100 Fifth-graders to quiz patrons, read Declaration of Independence on State House Floor Youre all invited to a celebration of freedom here in Colorado

Adams County Delegate/Alternate list for the March 29, 2014 County Assembly listed by last nam

Campaign and Political Finance Training

Colorado Straw Poll Results suggest Republicans may not nominate weak candidates

Ronald Reagan addresses Young Americans for Freedom

Adams County Sheriffs Candidates Roundtable

Because of Fracking.

Brighton suspends oil and gas drilling applications

Preliminary Straw Poll Results for Adams County Republicans

Oil producers undaunted as Colorado mulls fracking restrictions

Demcratic Operatives give away the game plan Aurora releases 6 prisoners early: Police Chief blames Adams County Sheriff Darrs policies

Whats that, Joe Biden?

Table of Contents:

Monthly topic & upcoming NSRF calendar

NSRF $20 yearly Membership Application

Whats been posted on our website:www.NorthSuburbanRepublicanForum.com

The Reagan Club of Colorado April 3th Meeting

2014 Governor/U.S. Senate Candidate Forum on May 3rd

What is Common Core? Local outcry raised against Common Core suggested reading material

Protest Common Core on April 5th

Delay on common core standards rejected

Adams County Voter Information
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The Reagan Club of Colorado April 3, 2014 MeetinThursday, April 3, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. @ C.B. & Potts

Welcomes to our April Members Event with Mr. Steve LaffeyAuthor, Filmmaker, Businessman, and CD-4 Republican Candidate

Steve Laffey is an insightful and motivational "idea man" with real-worldexperience in business and the "business of politics". A graduate of Harvard BusinSchool and a father of 6, he brings an uplifting message of insight and confidence foall conservatives.

He successfully campaigned to become the Mayor of Cranston, Rhode Islan(population 80,387) leading the effort "to help dig the city out of a massive financiacrisis." from 2003-2007. He ran unsuccessfully against Lincoln Chaffee for USSenate in the Republican Primary and lived to write about it in the book titled

"Primary Mistake" 2012.Plan on an outstanding evening of entertainment and ideas for the grassroots

make things happen in the coming state elections.

CB Potts Restaurant Brewery 1257 W. 120thAvenue, 3 blocks west of I-25 on 120th Ave.

The 2014 Reagan Club of Colorado gets things started in this important year with a new Board of

Directors

To serve, educate, and inspire in the tradition of Ronald W. Reagan 40thPresident of the United Stat

1. NEW LOCATION: C.B. & Potts Brewing Company 1257 W 120thAvenue, Westmi nsterFeatures a private room for The Reagan Club. A special menu offers selections youll enjoy.

The room will open at 5:30 p.m.and Happy Hour runs from 4:00 p.m.6:00 p.m.

2. EVENT & DINNER PRICE: Members $20 Non-Members $25 (Includes Dinner and ProgramSelect from the Special Menu that includes your entre, a tasty side and your iced tea, coffee, lemonade. A full bar service is available at additional cost.

3. EVENING SCHEDULE:Doors Open at 5:30 p.m.Introductions and Opening at 6:05 p.m.Dinner Served at 6:25 p.m.Monthly Program Begins at 6:45 p.m.Wrap Up & Goodbyes at 8:10 p.m.

You can pay at the door the day of the event, or purchase your ticket online:http://www.reaganclubco.com/meeting-dues/

For more information call: Michael Stoffler (970) 222-7502Dana West (303) 280-0243Gary Mikes (303) 475-0413Steve Kelly (720) 737-6761Bev Berg (303) 280-1411

Please RSVP if you want to attend to: [email protected]
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WHAT IS COMMON CORE?

Common Core is the National Education Standard's Initiative that 46 States, the Department of Defense

Education Activity, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the American Samoa

Islands have all adopted, sight unseen. Puerto Rico has not adopted the standards.

National Standards:

National Standards focus on effort and empty skill sets and not on ability .

Science and Social Studies standards are on the round table for approval right now. Common Core approved

literature is full of sexually inappropriate content and political indoctrination.

Data mining:

Data mining is sourced from school registration information and the national assessment's test data. They sou

over 400 data points on our children and the data is kept for life and shared with Government entities.

Next Generation Assessment Tests:

PARCC - Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. (PARCC will be assessed severa

time a year and will replace TCAP)

and/or SBAC - Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium

These assessments are very costly to implement and maintain and are time consuming. They also force our

teachers to teach to the test.

College Entrance Exam Reform:

ACT/GED are currently being aligned with Common Core, which means that private schools, charter schools

parochial schools and home schools will be affected by this alignment with Common Core.

SAT/PSAT are pending alignment.

Who Does Common Core Affect?

Public, parochial, private, home schools and IB programs. This will also have a drastic effect on the tax payer

Who Developed Common Core?

Two private trade organizations/D.C. lobby groups developed the Common Core Standards.

1. National Governors Association (NGA)

2. The Chief Council of State School Officers (CCSSO)

Standards are owned and copyrighted by these groups and changes to standards cannot be made except throug

these organizations.

Why Did Colorado Adopt Common Core?

Colorado adopted CCSS in order to receive a portion of the "Race to the Top" stimulus money offered by the

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Colorado received $17.9 million and also received a "No Child Left Behind" waiver as part of the bribe.

What Is So Bad About Common Core?

It is unconstitutional education without representation. Governors and the State Department of Education mad

the decision without the voice of "we the people". This creates a lack of local control in our education system

Common Core in effect gives total control of our children to the US Government and the United Nations

through centralized education. It is a move towards Agenda 21's "Global Education for All" (Chapter 36) whireads as: "...changing the world economics to a more sustainable global economic society."

Common Core is very costly to implement at approximately $16 billion.

http://stopcommoncorecolorado.webs.com/what-is-common-core

Local outcry raised against Common Core suggestedreading material

By Complete ColoradoMore pressure is mounting locally on national curriculum guidelinesknown as Common Core.

710 KNUS is airing senate testimony given by a mother, Sarah

Colburn, with students in the Adams 12 school district. Coburn read

from a book, The Bluest Eye, which she says is included in the

suggested reading list from Common Core guides.

Below is the second hour of the Dan Caplis Show on 710 KNUS.Colburns interview with Caplis begins at 6:25, and the recording of

her testimony can be heard starting at the 14:30 mark (with a small

introduction of the audio). Warning: The recorded testimony from

Colburn includes adult language of a frank sexual nature.

http://dancaplis.podbean.com/2014/02/19/the-dan-caplis-show-feb-19-2014-hr-2/

Last week, the Colorado Senaterejected a billthat aimed to slow the implementation of Common

Core on a party line vote.

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Protest Common Core on April 5th

National rally on the west steps of the capitol building downtown Denver on Saturday, April 5, noon to 3 p.m. Tak

stand against Common Core and join this revolutionary event taking place across the country.

We are inviting all citizens, elected representatives and candidates to speak out against Common Core and the

Federal intrusion on education. The rallys across the U.S. will start at the same time and begin with the Pledge of

Allegiance at noon MDT.

Activities will include food booths, face painting, informational booths and ways to connect with other grassroots

groups across Colorado that are working to Stop Common Core.

www.stopcommoncorecolorado.webs.com

Delay on common core standards rejectedBy Vic Vela Posted 2/14/14

A Republican-sponsored effort to delay implementation of controversial new standardized school

testing mandates failed in a legislative committee on Feb. 13.

The federal Common Core State Standards Initiative sets guidelines for what every K-12 student

should know about math and language arts at each grade level, in hopes that the kids will be better

prepared for college.

During a Feb. 13 Senate Education Committee hearing, supporters of the initiative which the stat

adopted into the Colorado Academic Standards in 2010 lauded the assessment as an optimum wa

to set minimum standards that give kids the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in life.

But opponents insisted that the standards are expensive, burdensome on districts to implement, an

also argued that students are drowning in assessment tests already.

That polarization was the motivation behind Senate Bill 136, which would have delayed all new,

statewide assessments for a year. It also would have set up a task force designed to look into the

adoption and implementation of the Colorado Academic Standards in an effort to determine wheth

the state's participation in the Common Core initiative is worth it.

"All it's asking for is nothing special; no changes, just a time out," said Sen. Vicky Marble, R-Fort

Collins, the bill's sponsor.
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Marble told the committee that implementation costs associated with the standardized tests are

"enormous" and that the state would benefit from the delay.

But the majority of committee members didn't agree. The Democrat-led committee rejected Marble

bill on a 4-3 party-line vote, following a lengthy and often emotional hearing that even resulted in a

couple of lawmakers trying to hold back tears.

Although he heard testimony that "will give him a lot of things to think about going home," Sen. Mi

Johnston, D-Denver, said he is supportive of the standards.

"I am still a believer that we can build a set of rigorous standards," he said. "I don't think the answe

to pause on this."

States can voluntarily adopt Common Core standards and 45 states and the District of Columbia ha

done so. Colorado's State Board of Education decided to adopt the standards after a study determin

that the federal math and English standards were closely aligned with those that the state was alreausing.

Colorado schools adopted the standards through its participation of the PARCC multi-state consort

- Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Through PARCC, Common Cor

testing is set to begin next year.

Testimony on Marble's bill lasted several hours inside the Old Supreme Court Chambers, the Capito

largest committee hearing room. Supporters of the bill cited several reasons as to why committee

members should put the standards on hold.

Sandra Stotsky, a longtime educator and national opponent of Common Core standards, began her

testimony by telling the committee that New York lawmakers had voted the day before to delay its

Common Core implementation for three years.

She said that New York has it right because Common Core's math standards don't prepare them for

the next instructional levels and that the ability of local school boards to dictate their own curriculu

"was wiped out overnight" by the 2010 State Board of Education decision.

"(Common Core) is a sticky jar of molasses that was voted on by a State Board of Education that did

know what it was doing," she said.

Others were critical of the demands that assessments place on school districts' technology. Stephan

Pico of the Cherry Creek School District said that lack of human and technological resources cause


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stress "and a sense of helplessness" among teachers who are already overwhelmed by technology

issues.

Others testified that the federal standards dictate curriculum, which undermines local control of ho

schools should operate. Monument Academy Principal Lis Richard told the committee that the

connection between assessment standards and curriculum is "inseparable."

"I believe the intentions have been good, but ill advised," she said. "Adopting a national form of

standards has never been proven to reform education. Our footprint for the instructional time we'r

going to miss (leaves us) very concerned."

Others said that students are buried under assessment tests to begin with. George Sader, a former

educator, testified that assessment standards like Common Core force a child who is slow to develo

in school "to run faster than he can run."

"We're reaching the point where we test more than we teach," Sader said.

But Common Core supporters said the standards help students develop critical thinking across all

instructional areas and that it helps develop equity in the learning system.

Elizabeth Miner, a physical education teacher who was named the 2014 Colorado Teacher of the Ye

said the uniform standards provide students "a consistent and clear understanding of what student

are required to learn." And Jessica Keigan, a teacher at Thornton's Horizon High School, said the

standards "help kids grasp complex ideas."

Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colorado Education Association, said her organization strongly

supports Colorado Academic Standards, which she said affords equal footing for students without

placing a ceiling on what they can learn.

Dallman said the problem isn't with assessment testing, but with teachers' lack of resources in the

classroom.

"A lack of resources negatively impact implementation of those standards," she said. "It's the perfec

storm of implementation and lack of resources."

The hearing, which lasted more than six hours, became emotional toward the end with one witness

offering tearful testimony in support of the bill. And Marble and Sen. Nancy Todd, D-Aurora, each

had to compose themselves prior to the committee wrapping up the hearing.

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