Charter Schools, Character Education & the Eugenics Internationale
Behind the Conservative Curtain:
Pseudo Grassroots Organizations Front
for Corporate/Government Takeover
 

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew 16:26

PART VII

Strategists for School Choice / Charter Schools

THE NATIONAL BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE [NBR]

The National Business Roundtable is a consortium of CEOs from the major corporations which works in conjunction with the National Association of Business [NAB].

NBR worked with the U.S. Department of Education, Pew Charitable Trusts, RAND Corporation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and numerous private foundations to strategize GOALS 2000, creating the entity New American Schools Development Corporation [NASDC] to direct the implementation of so-called model schools for GOALS 2000.

“BRT [Business Roundtable] Chief Executive Officers advocate policies that foster vigorous economic growth and a dynamic global economy. BRT's issue analysis is done by its taskforces -- each is headed by a CEO, has CEOs as its members and focuses on a specific issue area. The task forces develop policy recommendations and lay out plans for action.”

BRT Education

Edward B. Rust, Jr. - Chairman & CEO, State Farm Insurance Companies

Works to improve student achievement in the U.S. and assure that high school graduates are prepared to succeed in our changing world.

[The BRT Education web page links to Education Excellence Partnership EEP] Partnership  

The Education Excellence Partnership founding consultants were Chester Finn and Diane Ravitch.

EEP is a consortium composed of:

• The Business Roundtable

• U.S. Department of Education

• ACHIEVE

• American Federation of Teachers

• National Alliance of Business

• National Education Association

• National Governors' Association

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The Business Roundtable Participation Guide: A Primer for Business on Education

Developed by the National Alliance of Business [1991]

The forward is a letter from John F. Akers, Chairman of the Board IBM Corporation and Chairman of The [National ] Business Roundtable Education Task Force

[It begins…] “Education is in crisis in our nation…”

Acknowledgements: “The Business Roundtable and the National Alliance of Business would like to thank the experts…[and] Kenneth R. Lay, IBM director of International Education, who conceived of this publication…The Roundtable also wishes to acknowledge David W. Hornbeck [GOALS 2000 strategist for NBR] and Paul T. Hill, Senior Social Scientist, the RAND Corporation, for their substantial contributions toward the development of the Roundtable's policy position entitled Essential Components of a Successful Education System…and The Roundtable position on choice… Finally, the Business Roundtable and the National Alliance of Business wish to thank Ernest L. Boyer president for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching who wrote the final chapter in this book, which calls the business community to action.” [emphasis added]

See Ernest Boyer’s leading role in Character Education:

Character Education for Race Betterment

James Dobson’s Interview of Ernest Boyer

More Businesses Organized at the National Level for School Reform/GOALS 2000/ Workforce Preparedness

THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BUSINESS is a national business organization focused on increasing student achievement and improving the competitiveness of the workforce. Our 5,000 members include companies of all sizes and industries, their CEOs and senior executives, educators, and business-led coalitions.

The central purpose of the National Alliance of Business is to increase individuals' skills and knowledge mastery by working with employers, educators, training providers, coalitions, and policymakers to align the learning opportunities at all levels of the education and training system with the increasing demands of the Knowledge Economy.
 

To achieve this goal, NAB coalesces and leverages business leadership to:

1.    Increase the academic achievement of every American child;
2.    Ensure students have opportunities to experience and/or understand the linkage between academic success and success beyond school; and
3.    Promote a demand-driven, competency-based workforce development system centered on life-long learning.

Business leaders guide every aspect of work through our board of directors, business policy councils, business advisory committees, and coalition advisory committees. We support a growing network of state and local business coalitions to highlight successful strategies. Our work includes a wide range of activities, from shaping national policy to promoting employer leadership across the country. We work in partnership with every major education, training, and business organization to raise public awareness, influence policy, and stimulate action.

National Alliance of Business Coalitions

OVERVIEW
NAB collaborates with business-led coalitions on the national, state and local level.
This collaboration includes management or partnership with:

Business Coalition for Excellence in Education (BCEE)
NAB manages this ad hoc coalition of leading companies and associations.
Business Coalition for Education Reform (BCER)
The Business Coalition for Education Reform (BCER) is made up of 13 national business-led organizations and 800 state and local business-education coalitions that coordinate their efforts to increase the academic achievement of all students by promoting business involvement in education at the national, state and local levels.
Business Coalition for Workforce Development (BCWD)
This NAB managed coalition plus the BCER represents more than 30 national business-led organizations and 4,000 companies that share knowledge and expertise to enhance the business community's education and workforce development agenda.
Business Coalition Network
The Business Coalition Network advances business leadership at the national, state, and local levels by working with over 800 business-led coalitions to improve student achievement and workforce quality.
National Employer Leadership Council (NELC), a coalition of senior executives representing a diverse group of companies, trade associations and business organizations that advocates and supports school-to-career initiatives.
Education Excellence Partnership, a public-private partnership working to strengthen the academic future of America's children. [Chester Finn, Diane Ravitch]

Business Coalition for Education Reform (BCER) is made up of 13 national business-led organizations and that coordinate their efforts to increase the academic achievement of all students by promoting business involvement in education at the national, state and local levels. To do so, the partners leverage resources and expertise; build partnerships to help states and communities learn from each other's experiences; and provide technical assistance to a growing network of state and local business-led coalitions.
BCER is managed by the National Alliance of Business

BCER National Partners
Thirteen national business organizations have joined together to form the BCER to help strengthen America's schools. The BCER works to increase academic achievement for all students by supporting and expanding business involvement in education at the national, state, and local levels.
The BCER supports efforts to: raise academic standards for all students; ensure standards reflect the knowledge and skills needed for workplace success; and help the public understand the critical need for world-class academic standards and necessary changes needed for school systems to deliver them.

BCER Members:
*    American Business Conference
*    Business-Higher Education Forum
*    The Business Roundtable
*    The Chamber of Commerce of The United States
*    Committee for Economic Development
*    The Conference Board
*    Council of Growing Companies
*    Council on Competitiveness
*    National Alliance of Business
*    National Association of Manufacturers
*    National Association of Women Business Owners
*    U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
*    Utility/Business Education Coalition

Affiliate Members:
*    Achieve
*    National Association of Partners in Education, Inc.
*    U.S. Department of Education

Ø     NASDC [New American Schools Development Corporation, 1991]

Previously posted NASDC information referenced its use of RAND Corporation as their evaluator:

“Working Towards Excellence: Early Indicators From Schools Implementing New American Schools Designs

Research by the RAND Corporation, which evaluates the New American Schools effort, indicates that most schools need help to make the kinds of changes necessary to dramatically raise student achievement. The eight New American Schools Design Teams*…”

*Note: The National Business Roundtable's GOALS 2000/NASDC initiated a national contest [1992] in search of model schools to serve as blueprints for the New American Schools. Ironically, the same GOALS 2000 strategists won the contest [and financing].

One of the original eleven GOALS 2000/NASDC design teams was Hudson Institute's Modern Red School House: William Bennett, Denis Doyle,* Pierre du Pont [CNP], Chester Finn [Manhattan Institute] [See Private Foundations, Hudson Institute, Manhattan Institute, below].

Denis Doyle is director the Center For Education Reform [Heritage Foundation affiliate] with Jeanne Allen and an advisor to ACHIEVE [CEOs and Governors], below.

“The Role of the Private Sector in Public Education”

By Denis P. Doyle [senior fellow with the Hudson Institute]

IN THE PAST year there has been an explosion of interest in the question of privatization of public schools, which encompasses everything from the old standby -- vouchers-- to such innovations as charter schools, home schooling, and the emergence of private management companies, such as John Golle's Education Alternative, Inc. and Chris Whittle's Edison Project…

New Conceptions of Public/Private Partnerships Beyond the 'QUANGO'

“…Not to be outdone by our American passion for acronyms, the Brits have enthusiastically adopted an acronym of American coinage…for public/private partnerships. It is QUANGO (Quasiautonomous Nongovernmental Organization). The term refers specifically to a semipublic administrative body that is outside the civil service but funded and appointed by the government.

By way of contrast, consider the New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC). It goes QUANGO one better. It is a single-purpose, entirely private administrative body with no public funding that is devoted exclusively to supporting public schools. Chaired by David Kearns, former Xerox CEO and former deputy secretary of education, NASDC has received $70 million dollars to underwrite the development efforts of nine teams of educators, all of whom are deeply involved with public schools. The beneficiary of a portion of the extraordinary generosity of Walter Annenberg ($50 million, a lot of money even by Washington standards), NASDC represents a genuinely unique private/public partnership…. [T]he long-term purpose of NASDC is no less the radical transformation of American public education, using private funds for public purposes.

In addition to NASDC support, the Hudson Institute received support from two other foundations, the J. Holden DeHann Foundation and the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, to get the Modern Red School House project [Hudson's GOALS 2000 NASDC design team] under way, further evidence of the scope of this unusual public/private partnership. DPD source: Phi Delta Kappa, Oct. 1994 [emphasis added]

New American Schools [NAS] Board of Directors*

Note: The original board of NASDC [1991] also included:

• Robert E. Allen [CFR], AT&T

• Walter H Annenberg, Publisher, Diplomat and Founder of the Annenberg Foundation

• Norman R. Augustine [CFR], Martin Marietta Corporation

• Joan Ganz Cooney [CFR], Children's Television Workshop

• James R. Jones [CFR], American Stock Exchange

• Lee R. Raymond [CFR], Exxon Corporation

• William A. Schreyer [CFR], Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

• Linda J. Wachner [CFR], WARNACO

• Kay R. Whitmore, Eastman Kodak [CFR affiliate]

Contributors to New American Schools Development Corporation [NASDC]

New American Schools extends special thanks to Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg for his continued generous support of our efforts to improve public education.

New American Schools acknowledges with gratitude the valued contributions of the following corporations, foundations, organizations and individuals:

Ø   ACHIEVE

Yet-another spin-off of the National Business Roundtable is ACHIEVE:

“Achieve, Inc., is an independent, bipartisan, not-for-profit organization formed in 1996 by governors and corporate CEOs who shared a powerful belief that…”

ACHIEVE Board of Directors

Achieve's Board of Directors, as mandated by the by-laws, is composed of six governors (three Democrats and three Republicans) and six CEOs:

Note: Denis Doyle -- an advisor to GOALS 2000, member of the Hudson Institute's design team the Modern Red School House, associate of Brookings Institution, American Enterprise Institute, and now on staff at the Center for Education Reform [Heritage Foundation affiliate] -- serves as an advisor to ACHIEVE.

In 1996 a GOALS 2000 Education Summit was held under the direction of IBM's CEO Louis Gerstner, Jr. and AT&T's CEO Robert Allen, bringing together the Governors and one CEO of a major corporation from each state. Resource participants [the expert consultants] included Denis Doyle of the Heritage Foundation, Chester Finn of the Hudson Foundation and Robert Morrison of the Family Research Council [Focus on the Family]. Other expert consultants [30+] represented Pew Charitable Trusts, National Business Roundtable, American Enterprise Institute [Lynne Cheney] and New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC).  The Education Summit would later evolve into ACHIEVE. [emphasis added]

Pew Charitable Trusts Grants to Education: 

National Governors' Association Center For Policy Research

Project Name: National Education Summit Planning Committee

Location: Washington, DC 20001-1512

Grant Approved: 09/26/96

Grant Amount: $ 200,000 /1 yr.

Program Area: Education

Sub-Category: K-12 Reform

Purpose: To support the creation of a non-governmental organization to provide information, guidance and help to states and districts seeking to develop high academic standards.

Contact: Mr. Stanley S Litow, Vice President, Corporate Community Relations, IBM-International Business Machines Corporation*

Internet: National Governors' Association Center For Policy Research

Achieve, Inc. - A Resource Center on Standards, Assessment, Accountability, and Technology

Location: Cambridge, MA 02138-4956 U.S.A.

Grant Approved: 12/11/97

Grant Amount: $ 1,000,000 /3 yrs.

Program Area: Education

Sub-Category: K-12 Reform

Purpose: To help states benchmark their standards and assessments against those of other states and nations, and to build continuing public support for standards-based reform.

Contact: Robert B Schwartz, President, Achieve, Inc.

Lilly Endowment

Lilly Endowment: “Lilly Endowment, Inc. is different from Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. The Lilly Endowment was established in 1937 by members of the Lilly family as a vehicle by which to pursue their personal philanthropic interests. The Lilly Endowment is completely separate from Eli Lilly and Company and Eli Lilly and Company Foundation and is independently managed. The Lilly Endowment cannot be solicited through the company and must be contacted directly.”

Financed by the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Co. of Indiana. Forbes estimates the family fortune at $1.3 billion. Has given millions to the AEI's [American Enterprise Institute] Center for the study of Government Regulation. Also a big supporter of the Hudson Institute, which put together W-2 (Wisconsin Works?). Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., President of Eli Lilly's North American Pharmaceutical Operations, is a member of the Hudson's Board of Trustees. --The Feeding Trough [Phil Wilaytu] [Source: Media Transparency]

               The Center for Reinventing Public Education [Paul Hill] offers various publications on Charter Schools.

The RAND publication--Autonomy, Accountability, and the Values of Public Education A comparative assessment of charter school statutes leading to model legislation. By Marc Dean Millot, 1996 -- was “prepared for the Lilly Endowment” and funded by the New American Schools Development Corporation and the RAND Institute for Education and Training (IET) project on School Reform Strategy, a systems analysis of innovation in the governance of public education. The report recommends the creation of "an alternative legal framework for the formation of public schools" and supports the requirement that “charter schools…establish themselves under a state's nonprofit or business corporation’s statutes.” [emphasis added]

Paul Hill's Center for Reinventing Public Education [based at the U. of WA] homepage states: “The Center pursues a national program of research and development on such proposals as charter schools, school contracting, choice, and school system decentralization, via alliances with the Brookings Institution, The RAND Corporation, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Chicago. [emphasis added]

Ø    The American Enterprise Institute

 

Grant Provider: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
Recipient: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Date: 11/4/91
Amount: $56,500
Comment: To support the research and publication activities of Charles Murray [co-author of The Bell Curve] during 1991-92  [Source: Media Transparency]

American Enterprise Institute Scholars [selective listing]

Robert H. Bork

Lynne V. Cheney

Dinesh D'Souza

Newt Gingrich [CFR]

Jeanne J. Kirkpatrick [CFR]

Irving Kristol [CFR]

Charles Murray

Michael Novak [CFR]

AEI Trustees, Officers & Council of Academic Advisors [selected members]

PART VIII: MORE Strategists for Charter Schools

 References:

1.      Fritz Springmeier, “The Satanic Bloodlines: The DuPont Bloodline,” http://www.geocities.com/lord_visionary/the_dupont_bloodline.htm

2.      Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust, NY: Crown Publishers, 2001, pp. 9-10. See: Washington Post Book Review: “IBM Technology Aided Holocaust, Author Alleges,” http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54557-2001Feb10.html 

3.      Robert Lederman, “In Light of IBM, Will GW Bush Admit His Own Nazi Connection?,” http://baltech.org/lederman/bush-ibm-2-13-01.html

4.      “$105 million grant from Lilly Endowment to IU fuels Indiana Genomics Initiative,” Indiana University, http://www.iuf.indiana.edu/about/news/news_release.shtml

5.      “The Aftermath Of Prozac, Zoloft, Luvox, Fen-Phen, & Many Other Serotonergic Drugs,” Dr. Ann Tracy, International Coalition for Drugawareness, 6/20/2000, http://www.drugawareness.org/

6.      Suzanne Rini, “Life on the Norplantation: The Bell Curve and Eugenics,” Fidelity Magazine, March 1995, pp. 36-37.