Schlafly: America COMPETES Act is a Power-Grabbing Big-Spending Federal Boondoggle July 17, 2007
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P-16 is a rather new term meaning that Big Brother government is now supervising the next generation from pre-school through the 16th year of education (i.e., college graduation). We used to think K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grade) was the scope of government schools.
It appears that a major purpose of this audacious legislation is the establishment of a “P-16 education longitudinal data system.” The plan is to enter all children into the government’s database while they are in pre-school and then track them all the way through college.
States will be induced (bribed) to cooperate in this expansion of federal power by grants from a $100,000,000 pot of federal money in only the first year.
The P-16 data system will have a “unique identifier” for each child that will be retained from pre-school through college. The database will include, among other things, “information about the points at which students exit, transfer in, transfer out, drop out, or complete P-16 programs,” “test records,” “information on courses completed and grades earned,” and how students “transitioned” from high school to college.
If the typical four years of undergraduate school is now a de facto Federal educational responsibility that future college students should be tracked to an individual, then it should be free of charge, and graduates shouldn’t leave school and start a career with a six-figure debt load. Do you think that’s part of this bill? I doubt it.
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