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On December 22, 2003, Senator Steve Kelley said, "Im not sure it's accurate, legally or hisorically to call the Declaration of Independence a 'founding document'."

Can you imagine how our founders might have reacted to such a statement?

To help your imagination we've prepared a 7X10 high quality glossy photo of Senator Kelley sitting at the table with John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and the rest of our Founders as they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, so that we might have liberty. For a copy, send us a donation of $10 or order online today.

D-Day Action Alert - June 3, 2004
The following letter has been delivered to a number of key Members of Congress in both the House and Senate. We urge you to make copies of this letter for your own U.S. Senator and Representative, along with the textbook example that is linked in the letter. Please write a brief cover note from yourself, and mail or fax them to the state offices of your Members of Congress. (See update)
(D-Day - A Disaster or a Victory?)

• EdAction's Academic Standards Site

• Who wrote the Kelley Alternative Standards?         

• Commissioner Yecke and the Kelley Standards (pdf)

• Edited Transcript of the Confirmation Hearing on  Commissioner Yecke  

Education Elite Wrote Kelley's Standards  April 5, 2004
The mystery authors of Senator Kelley's replacement standards that passed the Senate Education Committee on March 26th have now been revealed.

In the interest of helping the public get to know the Kelley standards' authors, EdWatch has created a page on our website with cursory information about the authors, links to some of their background work, and affiliations. While the information on our site can't possibly be comprehensive in such a short time, we hope that it will provide the public and legislators a glimpse of the radical ideology behind the Kelley standards. (See update)

Action: The standards are expected to be adopted on the senate floor sometime next week!

Please make every effort to contact your Senator and all DFL Senators (see below) by telephone or e-mail, or talk to him/her personally during the Easter break. Please tell them:

1. Pass the Citizen Committee Social Studies Standards.
   Oppose the radical Kelley standards. 

2. Support the amendment to the science standards that would require teaching the full range of scientific controversy about evolution. 

3. Support the confirmation of Commissioner Yecke.
   Commissioner Yecke's confirmation hearings are still in committee, so it will not come before the full senate for at least another week. However, the senators need to hear from you on this now. 

4. Finally, please contact others you know to join in this effort to contact their senators. (see list of Senators)

Buy Stillwater! Support Bachmann!   April 7   (See update)

The Kelley Social Studies Standards  March 30   (See update)
The Kelley social studies standards were finally released on Friday, March 26th, well into the committee hearing, and not long before the vote to adopt them. Consequently, the Senate committee members had no opportunity to review the standards they were expected to adopt or reject... Lisa Norling, professor of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota, and the only professor to come forward, stated in her testimony, "It may appear that they came out of nowhere." (See complete update)

Who to Believe?
"Experts" Kelley and Martel or Presidents John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge. (See update)

Drafts "Appear From Nowhere" in the Senate March 21  (See update)

House Gives Up Ground on Social Studies Standards
In a disappointing vote on the floor of the House Thursday, the Republican House leadership defeated an effort to reverse the changes that had been made to the "3rd draft" of the social studies standards. The Buesgens amendment would have restored the parts of the standards that had been undermined in the "behind closed door" revisions last month. (See complete update)

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