Camille Giglio
November 18, 2013

In my previous report on Common Core Educational Standards I included a section on an interview conducted during the Friday morning, 11:00AM, Bishop’s Hour Program on Immaculate Heart Radio, 1620 AM dial out of Sacramento, in which Rick Maya Superintendent of the Sacramento Catholic Diocese was interviewed. The subject was the Acceptance by all California Diocesan school districts (10) of the Common Core State (education) Standards which, Mr. Maya assured us, was in no way similar to the sectarian CCSS but would be “infused” with Catholic Principles. CCSS is, he acknowledged, the roadmap to a common core of standards, but the Catholic curriculum would be the route taken (it’s called Social Justice) to attain that common core.

Apparently the Bishop’s Hour program received numerous unhappy responses to this announcement because last Friday, Nov 15, The Assistant Diocesan Superintendent, Laurie Powers, was interviewed to reassure listeners that the education of their children was not a “political endeavor.”

Further, she emphatically stated that there was no government funding behind the acceptance of the Common Core Standards. http://ihrarchive.org/archive/sbh-20131115.mp3.

She did seem a little confused about one thing. She used the phrase “the Whole person” as being the target for a Catholic education, yet did not seem to realize that that is also the mantra of the public education. She also seemed not to appreciate how impersonal and unfeeling it appears to use “person: rather than “child.” One wonders, also if she realized that the phrase, the whole person/child indicates that the educational system is, just like the public schools, presuming to take over the total development of every aspect of an individual’s life, physical health, mental health, nutrition, social skills, workforce training and preparation?

In referring to reading literacy for the 3rd grade she declared that there would be an emphasis on “informational reading” as well as the classics. Informational reading, just like in the public schools, is very utilitarian in nature. Children will read personal biographies and histories not for their literary skills, historic or creative sense but for the development of specific objectives pertaining to the training. For instance, if they were in a math class, they might read a book about a mathematician. If they were in a history class they might just be reading a book about Harvey Milk and his contribution to local history.

In the previous article I referred to above, a 4th grade public school class was reading the biography of Coretta Scott King. The class was being encouraged to draw from her life’s story certain values.

What modern day stories will the Catholic school kids read to obtain certain values? Will they read about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, George Washington Carver, St. Martin de Porres as examples of equitable justice or compassion?

The most unsettling statement Ms Powers made was that in 1997 Catholic Educators took a look at Catholic education, at least in California, and decided to develop curriculum based on the California state (public) School Standards.

What happened in 1997 to cause this? Please see below the notation on The Catholic School on the Threshold of the Third Millenium.

About 22 minutes into the interview Ms Powers states that it is the goal of a Catholic education as reflected in the statements of the National Catholic Education Association, to create the lawyers, doctors, politicians, teachers of twenty years from now.

The question is: Will these future entrants into the professional world have any soul left?
Is reaching the top of the worldly ladder the end all and be all of Catholic education? Is it worldly prestige and power. If it is, then certainly a public school or home schooled education is less expensive, more protective of family values and leads to a better prepared, faith-fulled and compassionate adult.

Ms Powers says that when parents attempt to criticize this decision to embrace public school standards she encourages them to compare the public school’s goals and objectives with the Catholic School’s objectives. Well, I have, and it isn’t very different.

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END NOTES.

CATHOLIC SCHOLARS BLAST COMMON CORE
In an unusual statement, 132 Catholic scholars wrote a statement highly critical of the Common Core, which they sent to every bishop in the nation. They urged the bishops not to adopt Common Core in Catholic schools and to withdraw it where it had been adopted. They conclude that the Common Core standards are designed as standardized workforce training, doing nothing to shape and inspire the hearts and minds of children. To read more visit: http://dianeravitch.net/2013/11/11/catholic-scholars-blast-common-core/

BREAKING: National Catholic Educational Association Responds to Common Core Concerns and Gates Foundation Grant.. The Cardinal Newman Society, Nov. 14, 2013, Joe Giganti.

Brother Robert R. Bimonte, FSC, president of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), responded today to mounting concern over the organization’s advocacy for the Common Core education standards in Catholic schools, and a related grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to train teachers on the Common Core, as revealed by Catholic Education Daily Last week.

Brother Bimonte apparently looks to deflect criticism by publicly outing other Gates Foundation beneficiaries in the email including the Archdiocese of Seattle, Catholic Charities, Catholic Relief Services, the Catholic University of America and the Cristo Rey Network. “NCEA is not the first Catholic entity to receive a grant from the Gates Foundation,” he writes. But an examination of the other grants reveals none related to Common Core, which has been developed primarily under the sponsorship of the Gates Foundation, or to anything else controversial.

Patrick J. Riley, president of the Cardinal Newman Society said “Our schools need standards and assessments that keep the focus on key objectives of Catholic education,” Reilly told a meeting of bishops earlier this week. “Under Common Core, Catholic schools will be focused on very limited, secular goals, and their success will be evaluated with the same narrow criteria. Catholic identity is an add-on, not essential.”- See more at: http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2678/BREAKING-National-Catholic-Educational-Association-Responds-to-Common-Core-Concerns-and-Gates-Foundation-Grant.aspx#sthash.NaTH27zR.dpuff

The Catholic Schools Standards Project. This website contains an audio interview of Dr. Loraine Ozar of Chicago’s Loyola University on the new Catholic School Standards, March 13, 2012. http://www.catholicschoolstandards.org/

The Congregation For Catholic Education: the Catholic School On The Threshold Of The Third Millennium. This is a 1997 report prepared by and signed by Pio Cardinal Laghi.

The Cardinal is urging the Church to prepare itself to enter into the Third Millennium by examining the purpose of a Catholic education. Cardinal Laghi encourages the church fathers to examine the role of the church in light of a “new socio-political and cultural context.

Paragraph 16 is entitled The Catholic school at the service of society. Here the Cardinal states: “The school…must be related to the world of politics, economy, culture and society as a whole. Paragraph 17 continues this refrain by saying that: “The Catholic school, therefore, undertakes a cordial and constructive dialogue with states and civil authorities…based on mutual respect ..[and] each other’s role [in the] common service to mankind.” http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_27041998_school2000_en.html

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Camille Giglio
November 17, 2013

California is not unique in its penchant for passing intrusive health and education bills. Congress has quite a few of them. If you would care to track any of these pieces of legislation yourself you may link to govtrack.us. There is no charge. You can sign up to be notified whenever there is any activity on a particular bill of your choosing.

HR = House of Representatives.
S = Senate.

All of the following bills, submitted earlier this year and just now beginning to move, are interconnected, all carrying very similar titles and bearing on the same currently popular subject of School Bullying, or Safe Schools, or Strengthening America’s Schools and workplace advancement.

This will authorize the collection of data on behaviors in and during school time, adding counseling and restorative justice programs, all during the regular school, academic learning time.

They all focus on using the school time to modify students behaviors, instill government standardized ethics and attitudes. Should any of these bills make it through both houses one might suspect that it would in the end carry all the variations contained in all these bills.

S, 403, Linda Sanchez, (D-Cerritos, Ca) Student Bullying and Harassment. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - ESEA - to add prevention of bullying and harassment of students.

HR 1199, Linda Sanchez, Safe Schools Improvement Act. Calilfornia co-authors, Susan Davis, (D), Karen Bass,(D), Lois Capps,(D), Barbara Lee, (D) Zoe Lofgren, (D) Grace Napolitano,(D) Jackie Speier,(D), Mike Thompson,(D).

The next bills focus on so-called strengthening [of] education for all.

HR 1652, Jared Polis (D-Co) also a similar bill S. 1088, Al Franken,(D) Public Schools and Sexual Orientation Discrimination. On the subject of Public Schools and perceived Sexual Orientation or gender identity in public schools.
The bill declares that harassment is a form of discrimination.

• Cuts off educational assistance of recipients fouond to be violating any conduct made unlawful under this Act.
• Allows lawsuits including recovery of reasonable attorney’s fees should the lawsuit prevail.
• Places restrictions on receipt of federal educational assistance for any attempts to officially file for a waiver of defined misconduct under this act.

1. 1094, Harkin, Strengthening America’s Schools Act. This was gutted and amended, though holding the same title.

Bill. It has multiple sections such as:
TITLE 1 - College and Career Readiness for All Students.
Part A - Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged.
Part B - Pathways to College.
Part C - Education of Migratory Children.
Part D - Prevention and Intervention for Children and Youth who are Neglect, Delinquent or At-risk.
Part E - Children in Foster Care.
TITLE ll - Supporting Teacher and Principal Excellence
TITLE lll - Language and Academic Content Instruction For English Learners and Immigrant Students.
TITLE lV - Supporting Successful, Well-rounded Students. (Eleven Sections to this title)
TITLE V - Promoting Innovation

A - Race to the Top, B - Investing in Innovation, C - Magnet Schools Assistance, D - Public Charter Schools, E - Voluntary Public School Choice.

Plus 4 more Titles.

1. 840, Al Franken, School Principals - recruitment and training.

HR 1736, Susan Davis, (Ca) Principals in High-Need Schools, Recruitment and training.

1. 1082, Al Franken,(D) International Baccalaureate Programs. Accelerated Learning Act of 2013. Financial incentives to get students enrolled in this international, or very expensive global education program. California already has more than a dozen IB World Schools enrolled in this. My understanding, based on the writings of Debra Niwa of Arizona, is that though a school may be directed to sign up for this program to some state or federal agency, the school is only approved by the IB Board of Directors which is headquartered somewhere in Northern Europe.

HR 1100, Janice Schakowsky, (D)-Ill) College Campus Mental health Services. This is linked with HR 1652 and S. 1094. This would require the development of a targeted public education campaign designed to focus on mental and behavioral health on college campuses.

This is only a partial listing of related bills focusing on “improving” education, employment, workplace treatment, mental health and any other opportunities for self aggrandizement that the feds can come up with.

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Camille Giglio
Nov. 8, 2013

In 2008 the California legislature passed AB 3000, Health Care Decisions: Life Sustaining Treatment by then Assemblywoman and now state Senator, Lois Wolk,(D).

That bill was co-sponsored by (formerly named) Catholic Health Care West (now Dignity Health) and the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California

Amendments to that bill succeeded in preventing the POLST form from being authorized by the state but did authorize its sponsor, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California - CCCC, - full access to aggressive promotion of the form around the state. And, indeed it has been tremendously successful in obtaining acceptance and promotion from health groups, Hospice, religious groups, community organizations, the media, the film industry and even within some pro life groups.

It is being promoted under the banner of Palliative Care. People have become highly sensitized to consider that the centuries old idea of health care, such as the Hippocratic Oath, especially end of life health care is unnatural and coldly professionalized being based solely on finances. This subjects the patient and family to terrible suffering and anxiety because the patient’s wishes for a peaceful and natural death have been submerged to the heartless demands of a medical industry objectifying the patient and the family.

One newspaper reporter, using her position as the medical reporter to sell the POLST to the public has phrased it this way: “We all believe in natural child birth, why not natural death?”

The only problem with that is the POLST form does not bring about a natural death. It is a planned death, supported with legal force. The POLST is a tool for the CCCC to initiate its strongly held belief that human life has a utilitarian purpose and when that purpose, judged by the elitists is no longer useful, that that life costs the state too much money.

I will provide some examples:

I was recently sitting off in a secluded corner of a surgery waiting room in a Kaiser hospital. I happened to notice a 40-ish aged man approach the surgery sign-in counter, but paid little attention to him. Suddenly he was standing before me asking me to please be a witness to his “form.” He said, that he couldn’t have his knee replacement surgery that day if the form wasn’t signed and witnessed. He had to have the surgery that day he said with more than a little anxiety in his voice.

It was a Polst form. I asked him if he knew what he was signing? he said, yes, but it was just a knee replacement surgery, he wasn’t going to die or anything. Just please witness this so “I can get the surgery.”

It only occurred to me later that I should have insisted that he ask the receptionist at the desk why he had to sign this in order to have his surgery and why hadn’t he been told about it before hand? This is now, undoubtedly, a part of his permanent record, but will he even recall that he filled it out?

So, what’s so ominous about a POLST form?

POLST is similar to a DNR - Do not resuscitate, with the added measure of being a legally binding document that a doctor, a hospice, an ambulance team, a community clinic, must follow.

The form is one page printed on ultra pink card stock to make it quickly identifiable to medical personnel and follows the patient from hospital to long-term care facility/hospice.

Line A has two check boxes; yes for CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) or no for CPR which is portrayed as “allow natural death.”

Line B - Medical Interventions: has 3 check boxes indicating

1. Full treatment which mandates the full resuscitative treatment and follow-up.
2. Limited Additional Interventions, i.e. comfort measures only, CPR, and IV fluids. Also a secondary box which says Transfer to hospital only if comfort needs cannot be met in current location.
3. Comfort Measures Only administered at scene.

Line C - Artificially Administered Nutrition. 3 check off boxes;

1. No artificial means of nutrition, including feeding tubes (definition: starvation and dehydration)
2. Trial period of artificial nutrition, including feeding tubes. (food and water, if supplied through a tube is now considered artificial means and, therefore, removable)
3. Long-term artificial nutrition, including feeding tubes.

That’s all there is. A second page is devoted to Directions for health Care Provider.
Which states, in part:

• The POLST form is voluntary.
•         It wasn’t exactly voluntary to the surgery patient at Kaiser.
• It provides immunity to those who comply in good faith. (Protecting the medical personnel from lawsuits pr criminal charges just like with abortion)
•         Think about the elderly woman in the residential facility in Garden Grove. Ca. who collapsed and for whom the care provider refused to call for an ambulance or administer CPR? Her life could have been saved if either CPR was immediately begun or the ambulance came quickly. She did not die a natural death she died from suffocation.
• It doesn’t replace an Advance Directive.

That’s right, it is for the here and immediate now. If you are in a restaurant or in a rehab facility and you choke on a piece of bread or meat and the EMT people ask if the lady has checked off A on the POLST form, it’s no CPR for you. The EMTs’ already have an understanding that its no use speeding to attend that person. They can take their time and just watch the person once they get there. Or, as the reporter, Lisa Krieger said with a shrug of her shoulders when asked: “well, the ambulance can just transport her to the morgue.”

How can there be any value to an Advance Directive, which is planning for the future? Can the POLST say no CPR, but the A.D. say yes to CPR?

What if you fall and break a hip but you’ve signed a form that says comfort care only?

Also California now has a law that says any health care personnel, nurse practitioner, doctor, midwife, or family member etc., can fill out and sign the form for the patient. The exact wording is: “A legally recognized decision maker (the janitor?) may request to modify the orders, in collaboration with the physician, based on the known desires of the individual, or, if unknown, the individual’s best interest?”
Comfort care can often mean larger and larger doses of morphine until the patient has lost all touch with reality and desire for food or water.

No artificially provided water or nutrition. That’s starvation and dehydration.

Finally the form says that anyone can revoke the POLST form at any time. However, if you don’t know that your doctor or family member has signed a POLST, or you are already semi-conscious from too much morphine will you be sharp enough to demand that they tear up that form? www.caPOLST.org.

On one occasion my husband as designated decision maker, was called in for a consult with the doctor, the seriously ill family member and his ill wife. The couple had no children. The doctor stated that the hospital had done all it could for the man and he was going to be moved to a long-term care facility. While he was speaking a woman quietly entered the room claiming to be from the discharge office. Before our eyes the doctor seemed to disappear into thin air and the woman - not a nurse - began to ask what medical services the husband would wish to have provided to him in this new facility. She had a soft and soothing voice, making it seem like it was her heartfelt goal to meet every wish and desire that the patient had.

As she spoke I began to realize that she was selling the patient on signing the POLST form. I charged her with trying to get them to sign the form. She looked all sad and disappointed and declared that she just didn’t know what I was talking about. She had never heard of this form. This occurred in a Catholic hospital in Fresno which, it now turns out, is affiliated with Compassionate Care.

Later, I googled her name and found that she was very active throughout the Centrar valley in speaking for Compassionate Care and promoting the POLST form.

On another occasion, during a legislative term, there was a bill that would have mandated assisted suicide. Disability groups opposed the bill. The Disability people opposed A.S. because it denied them, as patients, the right to make their own decision regarding their health care and end-of-life decisions, their right to be in control, as it was explained to me.

The form is being quickly accepted because its promoters have learned to use the language of seduction to soothe the concerns of the wary. They have even begun to use pro life terms. We use the phrase: We believe in life from conception until natural death.

The abortion industry changed the definition of conception from the moment that the egg and sperm unite, to meaning the implantation of the fertilized ovum into the wall of the uterus, up to two weeks after fertilization as a way to promote birth control and pills such as RU 486.

The death industry is now changing the understanding of what constitutes a natural death as being one in which all medical interventions, including food and water, are removed and the person dies a medicated and lingering death, regardless of the patient’s age or seriousness of the immediate illness.

They have developed satellite community groups to help sell their product. One of them is a group called: Let’s have the Conversation. This groups trains people on how to discuss the issue of self destruction with friends, family and potential POLST signers. One suggestion they give is that a good time to bring up the conversation is at Thanksgiving, over the turkey dinner and a glass of wine.

Which brings me to my final example. A well recognized pro life Catholic Church recently held an end-of-life planning seminar for parishioners. The title of the seminar was “Let’s Have that Conversation.” One of the speakers, representing Palliative Care treatment was Vitas Hospice. Vitas is affiliated with, amongst other groups, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. Palliative Care is often also referred to as “The Third Way” or Stealth Euthanasia. www.vitas.com/default.aspx?tabid=81376.

Banks advertise as “full service banks.” Would you put your money in a bank that claimed we are only a partial service bank? A bank that has full service for some customers, but if you sign this form we’ll promise to only take care of some of your needs?

Why would anyone sign a medical care form that promises to only give you only partial service? Hospitals, especially newly built ones, are crammed with all the most modern up-to-date equipment possible with dozens of operating rooms. Why would they do that if they intended to only use a few or none of these pieces of expensive equipment on you?

Is this advancement in medical care or a step backwards to medieval practices? Is this social justice or discrimination based on a value judgement of your worth? Is this the Christian understanding of life after death or the humanist understanding of human worth and destination?

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End Notes:

Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. A statewide partnership of regional and statewide organizations, state agencies, and individuals working together to promote high-quality, compassionate end-of-life care for all Californians. www.coalitionccc.org.

Defining Palliative Care. Palliative care (pronounced pal-lee-uh-tiv) is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It is focused on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness—whatever the diagnosis. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. www.capc.org.

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Camille Giglio
October 27, 2013

The second wave of this two year term’s California education bills will soon be taken up in various committees. Of these 251 two-year bills CRLC has tagged 37 for tracking.

Of these mind-bending bills there are three that will bring about major changes in education policy. Common Core Standards may well be firmly entrenched as policy in California, but the question now for the legislators and stakeholders is…how do we package it attractively and sell it as a “good” to parents and local officials?

To get the full scope of this sneaky route to access to children we examine three bills:

AB 1194, Tom Ammiano, Safe Routes to School.
AB 646, Ken Cooley, (D), Public Education Governance: Regional P-20 Councils.
SB 45, Ellen Corbett, (D), Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998,

These three bills, and others, encompass the end objective of by-passing local elected education officers and having non-elected centralized non-education planners set global communitarian priorities using the students to improve the “health of the community.”

These are Hillary’s village people. they believe it is necessary to professionalize the raising of children to ensure their and their community’s future success as a sustainable community.

These people see a new way, a scientifically based equity driven pathway to success for all overseen by government officials and their appointed monitors.

AB 1194 sets the requirement for which community and government agencies may have access to the children in the classroom. and AB 646, sets up these “non-traditional” community partners as education advisors to monitor and track that equity in education goals are met.

SB 45, expands the scope of building codes and standards for all buildings,, including schools, to experiment with new and joint-occupants, (AB 1015, Kindergarten-University public education facilities Bond Act) and building materials.

AB 1194, Tom Ammiano, Safe Routes to School. This bill expands the 2011 Safe Routes transportation legislation by Assembly member V. Manny Perez, by requiring the state Department of Transportation and its usual mandate for funding construction of roads, streets, trails, rails, etc, to include an additional requirement of using 20% of the total funding for non-infrastructure (social agenda) training.
www.saferoutespartnership.org/state/bestpractices/legislation.

Sec 2333.5 of the streets and highways code is amended to read: “including public awareness campaigns and outreach to press and community leaders, traffic education and enforcement, bicycle and pedetrian safety, health and environment.”
Navigating M.A.P.-21: The Safe Routes to School Edition, audio/visual presentation, 8-26-12. (MAP-21=Moving Ahead for Progress.)

This includes student class time training. Are you sending your children to school to learn to ride bikes? Or, learn how to cook, or garden?

Do you send your daughters to Catholic high schools to learn about equity issues by being taken to San Francisco to hobnob with the denisons of the Tenderloin?

Or, even worse, to be encouraged to become Planned Parenthood peer counselors promoting birth control to their classmates as they are doing in LAUSD Roosevelt High School in East L.A.?

Each one of these non-infrastructure activities of the national Safe Routes to School National Partnership.

Please understand that though the title contains the word schools, Safe Routes to School, as authored by Tom Ammiano, has nothing to do with protecting students from bullying, abductions, drive-bys, thievery, dog bites, etc. as they go to and from school or during school. There are other bills that will place marshals in the schools as well as mental health counselors and community health clinics that dispense vaccinations and contraceptives along with abortion referrals. Funding for this last item will come through the state budget and foundation grants.

“Safe Routes” can have a multitude of meanings, i.e. being socially or politically correct gets your child in the front door, parents cooperating with the schools to prepare their children to exhibit obedient additudes thereby opens pathways to future academic instruction, total acceptance of communitarian dogma by parents and students insuring future job security, etc.

In 2010, then Governor Schwarzenegger, signed an Executive Order S-04-10 creating a program called Health in all Policies - HIAP - and assigned it to the state Strategic Growth Council in conjunction with the state Public Health Department.
http://sgc.ca.gov/hiap/docs/about/Executive_Order_S-04-10.pdf

By 2011 California became a member of a nationwide networking of 18 government and private sector agencies entitled Safe Routes to School National Partnership - SRTSNP - sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Check out the website for the Institute for Local Government: Sustainable Communities Learning Network; Updated Guide to Planning Healthy Neighborhoods.

Every state policy was to reflect some aspect of improving the health (emotional, mental, physical, financial, housing, transportation, nutritional, etc) of California’s communities thereby creating the perfect, healthy sustainable community, aka Obamacare. By re-structuring roads and highways, reducing gas emissions, improving water quality and significantly influencing the physical, economic and social environments in which people live, shop, work, study, and play, healthier and more productive communities would be created. Or, at least that’s what the government owned media has told us.

Again, what is meant by healthier or productive? Could it mean fewer children?
Schools may still offer mathematics classes through the STEM program, Science, Technology,Engineering and Math, but for instance the math segment if not monitored by parents just might be used to support a specific agenda.

As an example, The online website “On This Rock” reported that Northview High School in Southern California, had a Zero Population Growth banner hanging in its hallway. This banner, part of a math “project” declared “Zero Poulation Growth…it’s Up To You - No More Than Two.” Is that an addition or a subtraction project? www.on-this-rock.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-we-need-solid-catholic-schools.html.

Or, how about the recently passed Nancy Skinner bill on nutrition in schools? This is a part of the Michelle Obama endorsed, National Obesity Campaign and slavishly followed by State Superintendent of Schools, Tom Torlakson.

Here’s what happened in Richmond, Va. when parents signed up their preschoolers for the Henrico County Public School/Headstart Program:
The Daily Sheeple for October 22, 2013, reports that “Brown Bag Ban: Fed Gov Tells Preschool Parents No Lunch From Home Without a Doctor’s Note.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/brown-bag-ban-fed-gov-tells-preschool-parents-no-lunch-from-home-without-a-doctors-note_102013

Other bills, reflecting the health-in-all policies agenda are:
• SB 301, Carol Liu, Kindergarten-University Public Education Bond Act. to construct and modernize education facilities.
• AB 1178, CalFresh, Raul Bocanegra, (D) Pupil Instruction: Promise Neighborhoods, access to food stamps for child development. (mandated nutrition programs in schools)
• SB 192, Carol Liu, Early Learning and Educational Support Services. Federal Race-to-the-Top Early-Learning Challenge Grants allowing pre-school to include 30 month old babies.
• AB 959, Susan Bonilla, Pupil Assessment. Aligning students with college and career readiness.

This is the true core of the Common Core Standards. These bills, though indexed as education bills are, in reality, workforce development bills aligned with sustainable, planned communities of the future. What makes them education bills is that their goals are achieved through brainwashing the students to accept the new order of society.

P-20 stands for Pre school through 4 years of college. In other words, non-elected community advisory groups who would be establishing and assisting in implementing education policy.

I quote from the official legislative analysis of this bill, “This is an employer-education partnership model of a regional P-20 Council…to help align preschool, K-12, community college, four-year college and graduate and professional education programs and funding to advance strategic educational and economic outcomes.

AB 1015, Curt Hagman, (R) School Facilities: Joint Occupancy. Provides incentive grants from the state Allocation Board for building of remodeling schools, including extending those grants to community organizations for the purpose of joint use of the school grounds and facilities, such as child care, extra curricular activites, or, just maybe community clinics.

SB301, Carol Liu, (D) Kindergarten thru University Public Education facilities Bond Act of 2014, would develop bonds to raise funds for new school facilities by statewide general election. This could become part of the 20% of Department of Transportation dollars for non-infrastructure programs Ammiano seeks in AB 1194.

The Leroy F Greene School Facilities Act, SB 50 of 1998, authorized bonds to be sold to finance school construction in a statewide general election. This Act has been used a multitude of times to expand just what qualifies as school construction and class-size reduction.

That we have any children at all in the state of California can be attributed to the Pro Life ethic still present in California since the original state abortion legislation of 1967. These devoted people have risked the loss of life, limb, family members, finances, reputations, careers to protect and defend the lifes of preborn babies.

Accusations of not caring what happens to these babies after they are born are false charges. We also follow the biblical admonition that they ae to be resisted with as much enthusiasm who would lead the (born) children astray
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Abortion has cheapened life creating the view that people are burdensome valued only for their productivity to the group. The very people who cry that our constitutional and ethical way of life has created financial, educational and social divisions are profiting financially and politically through these very things that they themselves have been instrumental in creating, at least in our minds if not in reality.

Our children still need rescuing only this time its from the intelligentsia. Please help defeat the above listed bills. Write, phone, email your legislators.

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End Notes;

Health in All Policies Task Force Report to the Strategic Growth Council, Executive Summary. December, 3, 2010. www.sgc.ca.govvv.

National Association of Local Boards of Health. www.nalboh.org

Caltrans Division of Local Assistance. Safe Routes to School Programs www.dot.ca.gov

State of California, Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Health In All Policies Task Force, www.oag.ca.gov.

Safe Routes to School National Partnership/Voices for Healthy Kids,
www.saferoutespartnership.org/resourcecenter/activeplaces

Health and Health Equity in State Guidance, May 10,2012, Implementation Plan,
pg 2 & 4. Role of the Task Force:
The Executive Order (EO)2 that created the HiAP Task Force declares that the population’s health and well-being are critical components of a prosperous and sustainable California, and that policies that influence the physical, economic, and social environments in which people live, work, and play influence the adoption of healthy lifestyles.

The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Health is a fundamental component of quality of life, and a healthy population is a critical building block for a sustainable and thriving economy. Health increases workforce participation and productivity, while illness and injury impact the productivity of the individual, and their family members. Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization, adopted June 19,1946. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hist/official_records/constitution.pdf.

Health in All Policies; a Guide for State and Local Governments.
http://www.phi.org/resources/?resource=hiapguide.

Institute for Local Government: Sustainability Best Practices Framework: 2013 Update.
www.ca-ilg.org/sustainabiliyy-best-practices-framework.

Real costs of California’s outdated Flammability Standards, Contra Costa Times OPINION, 10/25/13, authored by Jean Hansen, Michael Green and Jim Weitkamp.
“We are all in the business of building for a healthier future, and AB127 is a step forward in creating healthy environments in all of our communities for generations to come.
www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_24387342/real-costs-californias-outdated-flammability-standards.

California Safe Routes to School Technical Assistance Resource Center, TARC, “Classroom Activities and Pedestrian and Bike Training Resources. Provides ideas for classroom activities that provide pedestrian and bicycle safety education and encouragement.”
www.casaferoutestoschool.org.

Federal Programs Preschool Collaboration Agreement: Memorandum of Understanding, (MOU)
BEtween Henrico County Public Schools and Henrico County Head Start.

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Camille Giglio
October 10, 2013

Question: can a community’s health and productivity be raised through educational policies based on instructing children in a one-size-fits-all scientifically based government approved curriculum?

California legislators think it can. As of October 13, 2013, close of term, Governor Brown has signed at least 32 education bills that tighten the strings on aligning California with federal educational mandates creating partnerships between the Departments of Education and Health while at the same time loosening the reins on local county boards of education and parental control.

Going a step further, one should ask who is to gain from this, the student, the bureaucrat or the community?

Sorry, that’s a catch question because all of this new education, based on pre-planned outcomes is really an experiment and America’s children are the latest guinea pigs.

The one-size-fits-all universal, global education, some might say training, is now called Common Core Standards. It was once called Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top. All of it created by a combination of federal and state legislation which the media never reports or reports in such a way as to make it seem to bear miraculous results.

ObamaCare is a one-size-fits-all federal model for universal health goals and outcomes. Common Core State (education) standards is a one-size-fits-all universal model for federal governance of pre-planned educational outcomes.

Critics of CCSS think of it more as a mandate to gather personal and private data on every person in the United States, every day, every month, every year; having federal bureaucrats analyze the data, returning it to the states as Best Practices, to be followed until the next change.

In other words, the federal government has found a way to circumvent states rights placing the feds directly into the centralized authority position of over one’s individual health and education outcomes, starting with home visits to pregnant women, thereby guaranteeing a healthy and productive citizenry in which one is trained to combine one’s own goals and desires with that of society in general.

The current legislative term, which ended on October 13, has had 119 education bills signed by the Governor and entered into law. These bills cover a wide range of topics such as; personnel, administration and curriculum, education finance, postsecondary education and Miscellaneous with an additional 41 sub topics.

So far 32 of the initial 66 education bills that we tagged have been chaptered. Only two were authored by Republicans, Tim Donnelly, AB 424, requiring that the History-Social Science framework incorporate a study of our state Constitution, the Magna Carta and Articles of Confederation into the education framework, and, Mimi Walters, SB 185, dealing with contracts to purchase “standards aligned” educational material for public, charter and private schools, in both printed and digital format

Donnelly’s bill was in response to the myriad of bills authored by Democrats mandating that the history-social studies framework include such things as Assemblyman Rob Bonta’s study of Caesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement, AB 123, Voter Education, AB 700 by Jimmy Gomez, and Ian Calderon, SB 552, Violence Awareness classes, AB 166, Roger Hernandez, Pupil Instruction, Financial Literacy, SB 201, Carol Liu, Materials: Academic Content Standards: English Learners. brings instructional materials for English learners into alignment with CCSS, K-12 plus Liu’s AB 247, Pupil Assessment, and SB 330, Alex Padilla, Mental Health Instruction to Educate Students. This latter bill bringing us into conformance with the 264 page California Health Framework for Public Schools. 2009 edition. (please see end notes)

Rounding out the alignment with Common Core and federal requirements are: AB 626 by Nancy Skinner, Nutrition. This incorporates ObamaCare’s health for all into the school cafeterias and aligns the state with the Pupil nutrition, health and achievement Act of 2001. Two companion bills, AB 547, Rudy Salas, High School and after School Safety and Career Exploration which includes a mandate to provide nourishing snacks for students who stay after school for activities, plus AB 514, Rob Bonta, Safe Schools Safe Learning, anti-bullying reporting. And, lastly, SB 490, Hannah-Beth Jackson, aligning Community Colleges with the Common Core Standards.

Donnelly’s bill was included in an unusual signing message from the Governor. (He is required to submit veto messages, but not signing messages) In it Brown admits that a package of 7 bills, including a lead bill by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, AB 484 Pupil Assessments: Measurement of Performance/Progress brings California more firmly into line with the federal Common Core Standards. This bill eliminates the STAR testing program and replaces it with the Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress system, better known as Smarter Balance Assessment. State Superintendent of Schools, Tom Torlakson, originally a Humanities teacher in an Antioch High School and a fitness devotee, is the main supporter of this bill.

Critics refer to this Smarter Balance as the guaranteed evened out balanced outcome scores of everyone with no one flunking, no matter how inaccurately they answer tests. It’s not the answer that they are looking for but the thinking process the student went through to arrive at an answer, any answer. This is called “thinking outside the box.”

But, I mentioned frameworks in a previous paragraph. What is a curriculum framework?

Here is a clear definition from Wikipedia:
Curriculum Framework is part of an outcome-based education or standards based education reform design. The framework is the first step, defining clear, high standards which will be achieved by all students. The curriculum is then aligned to the standards, and students are assessed against the standards. As compared with traditional education which is concerned only about delivering content, a standards based education reform system promises that all will succeed if all are held to high expectations. When the standards are reached, there will be no achievement gap where some groups are allowed to score lower than others, or the disabled are offered different opportunities than others. All will meet world class standards and be qualified for good colleges and trained for good jobs which pay good wages. In a traditional education system, the curriculum was defined by those who created textbooks rather than government bodies which assembled groups of stakeholders to create standards based on consensus of what students should know and be able to do.

There are a large number of bills that were held back during the 2013 term. These bills may come forward upon the legislature’s return from recess and be turned into two-year bills. These are corollaries to the one’s listed above.

The most lamentable part of all this invasive legislation is the lack of opposition from parents, conservative groups, religious groups, Republican or Tea Party groups.

Political Leftist/socialist legislators urged by self interest stakeholder groups are writing the legislation and Governors and the President are signing them into law, but it is we, the people, who are letting them do it. Please help spread the word amongst friends and family that there are freedoms to be won or lost depending upon how much we value our American independence.

We are witnessing the devaluation of humanity and it will be our future generations who will bear the burden of our apathy.

The pro life community is realizing that the next level of devaluation is human life at its ending. With the power and authority firmly in the hand of leftists and anti-Christians, assisted suicide and even euthanasia will begin to be felt in our country and state. The state Democrat Party already has a death with dignity plank in its platform.

Visit your elected officials. Let them know that you are aware of their voting records and goals, express your concern and remind them that they represent all their constituents, not just the special interest groups whose main purpose is to make a living off of human yearnings.

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End Notes

Political Outcast, May 29, 2013 “Common Core”: The ObamaCare of Education. http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/05/common-core-the-obamacare-of-education/

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 30, No 6, December 2005, Duke University Press. “Can Education Policy be Health Policy? Implications of Research on the Social Determinants of Health.”
        Research on the social determinants of health has demonstrated robust correlations between several social factors, health status, and life expectancy. Some of these factors could be modified through policy intervention. National-level public policies explicitly based on population health research are in various stages of development in many Western countries, but in spite of evident need, seemingly not at all in the United States. Because research shows such a strong association between education and good health, we offer evidence to show that at least two pressing problems in American society, namely the uneven distribution of educational attainment and health disparities linked to socioeconomic position, may be ameliorated through policy initiatives that link quality early childhood care, child development programs, and parental training in a seamless continuum with strengthened K–12 education.

California Health Framework for Public Schools, 2009 edition. http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/documents/healthfw.pdf. This is the complete agenda for the concept of teaching the “whole child.”
Healthy Schools, Healthy People, K thru 12, prepared for a conference on Healthy Schools, Healthy People, held January 15-17, 2003. This conference was, apparently, the preplanning for the 2009 Health Framework mentioned above.
http://www.tcoek12.org/tcoeforms/health/health  framework.pdf.

Much of the content of this above mentioned draft came from the Association for the Advancement of Health Education, originally published in 1994.

Governor’s Message, 10/2/2013, “The Governor’s 2013-14, signed in June, invests $1.25 billion in professional development, instructional materials and technology to support the implementation of Common Core Standards in California.”

Public Health Nutrition, “School-based nutrition education: lessons learned and new perspectives, Public Health Nutrition/Volume 4/issue 1a/February 2001 pgs 131-139.

        “Community trials suggest that nutrition education is an accessible effective tool in health promotion programmes with a focus on the development of healthy eating practices.”

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August 29, 2013
Camille Giglio

Lesson #1. In 1965 as a part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty he signed into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act - ESEA - created by the United States Department of Education.

The overt original goal of the Act was to provide financial aid to schools with a certain percentage of low-income families in order to “close the skills gap in reading, writing and mathematics”. Few people paid attention to the more subtle ramifications of this entry level move by the federal government to gain access to local school systems. The Act was amended about every three years. By 1972, a few parents and groups began putting out alerts about the ESEA containing authorization to instruct students in sex education. I attended one of those meetings.

You may recall the efforts made in the 1960’s and 70’s to stop the deceptively titled Family Life Education being promoted across the country and here in California. Many far sighted parents and concerned citizens warned that the sex promoters wouldn’t stop there.

Lesson #2. Legislatively authorize bureaucrats to set universal standards. In the succeeding years more emphasis and more fiscally punitive measures were placed on schools who failed to show federally required achievement of certain mandates. Greater emphasis came to be placed on all around student achievement otherwise known as Lifestyle choices, and specific classroom instructions. The collection of data on results was required. Development of parental involvement in achieving goals became a mandate.

In other words, as more and more state legislation authorized the funneling of federal money to states and from states to school districts and, ultimately to your school, the federal government slipped quietly into a major position of control of local school and curriculum and lifestyle goals. Local elected officials are being moved to the background while federal bureaucrats move into local prominence.

Lesson #3. Challenge the ability of the local authorities to properly carry out their duties. The California legislature and the state Department of Education have eagerly gone along with this federal intrusion in what began early in Life on American soil as private, religious and local parental control of the education of one’s children. Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities

We, in California, are now at a point where the federal government, as a result of legislation authorizing federal funding in local schools, are beginning to directly receive grants, ignoring school district elected officials. Common Core (universal) Standards and International Baccalaureate Studies are examples such as SB 421, Exam Fees, International baccalaureate Diploma Program grants

Other misuses of education are:

School nutrition/feeding programs, AB 626, Skinner, D-Oakland and AB 290, Alejo, for breakfast, lunch (and in some cases dinner during school season and summer). Getting more and more students signed up for school meals, now, in California, allows the bureaucrats to also sign up the students for entry into the healthy family programs which aligns the students with all the reproductive services the state has to offer.

School based health centers are handing out condoms to students and classroom sex ed is showing students how to apply said condoms. Parents are denied access to information about their child’s attendance during school hours, at Planned Parenthood shops, by law.

Best Practices is now the religious mantra for ethics and morality in the classroom rather than God’s Ten Commandments. No one ever asks, best for whom?

Transgendered students (even the word student is a neutered word) uncertain as what gender they are on a specific day, are now authorized to invade the privacy of the bathrooms and locker rooms of either sex, AB 1266 signed by Gov. Brown. One wonders if the state Capitol will open up its restrooms to either sex? Children are being taught in school that there may be only two sexes, but there are five or more genders.

Mental health clinics are coming on campus, There are a total of 169 mental health bills dormant and active, including AB 357 by Richard Pan, Healthy Child Task Force.

This bill did not get out of committee, but it clearly shows the intent and focus of this legislator who, by the way, was the author of the AB980, abortion clinic construction (de)regulations and the Gardasil authorization bill of last term.

Students are being referred out of class for abortions, Planned Parenthood has clinics on some campuses in the L.A. School District, including Roosevelt High in East L.A.

Classroom subjects include the history of gays as well as the farm Labor Movement, AB 123, Bonta, (D-Oakland) to name a few, and parents are told to butt out.

Last term’s bill to authorize direct referrals of students for mental health counseling is now fleshed out with this term’s Safe Schools and Safe Learning Act of 2013, AB 514, Bonta(D-Oakland) Also AB 547, Salas.

The understanding is now within education circles that student’s are the community’s responsibility not just “the household’s.” The school is now held more accountable for student success and health than the is the family, See: melissaharrisperry.com, MSNBC Promo, “Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents.” 4/9/2012/FoxNews.com”

Lesson #4. Federally gain control of the educational system. President Ronald Reagan never kept his promise to remove the U.S. Department of Education, formerly a mere Office of Education, formed under Lyndon B. Johnson’s term. The big push now is for states to adopt what is so nicely referred to as Common Core Standards for education. What the feds, the foundations and the lobbies really mean is the forceful implantation of one big globally set bureaucratically approved universal Master Plan for Outcome-Based Education incorporating the mandates of the workforce training goals into what will euphemistically be called education. AB 484, Bonilla, (D-Concord) Pupil Assessments: Measurement of Performance/Progress. This is the last nail in the coffin, so to speak, for local control and privacy of personal and family data.

Lesson #5. Convince parents that only professionals know how to raise a child. In some areas of California schools have become Community Centers open 24/7 for the entire community to receive social services, health and mental health counseling, feeding centers, employment centers, gardening co-ops and anything else that a group can get a government grant to set up. http://www.communityschools.org/

Lesson #6. Pretend that parents are the primary educators of their own children. Let’s not forget that we are being admonished to surrender our 3 year olds to pre-kindergarten classes where physical and mental health behaviors will be carefully observed, because the experts at California Commission on Children and Families - First 5 - understand that children now need an “early start” if the professionals are to prevent them from becoming young criminals.

Lesson #7. Lower the quality of medical care for citizens. California Healthline, Monday, August 19, 2013, published a report that the California Supreme Court unanimously decided that public schools have a right to allow unlicensed - but trained - school personnel to administer prescription medication to children.

Right now the reasoning is based on the needs of diabetic children to get timely insulin shots. The come-on is; there are not enough school nurses to accommodate the need during school hours. This is supposed to cause panic in taxpayer hearts imagining the children collapsing all over the place for lack of an insulin shot.

Responsibility for “school nurses” was taken from the education budget a long time ago and given to the Department of Public Health to establish full service health clinics within schools. Apparently there were too many school nurses at one time. Do the bureaucrats really know how many is enough or will it be the union bosses or Workforce Development offices who make that determination?

Is this full health care or full and universal employment?

Who knows what the excuse will be in a year or so. During the recent battle over authorizing the school nurses to give Gardasil shots to our kids without parental consent, I joked to a reporter who called, that soon we would be authorizing the janitors to provide health care to our students. Today, teachers, tomorrow, the janitors.

And, of course, at the same time that the CNA is lobbying for midwives to take over the physician’s job in committing abortions because they are so well qualified for, as they call it, simple procedures, AB 154, they are protesting allowing non-nurses to give insulin shots because its too dangerous to let just anybody (like mothers) give the shots.

The little red school house is no longer about education but about salaries, pensions and health care benefits and power for the education villagers.

Lesson #8. Destroy the family unit. Senator Mark Leno, (D-S.F) has a bill, SB 274, to authorize recognition of the legal right of a child to be assigned more than two parents if a judge determines that that is in the best interests of the child. (why aren’t the teachers complaining that that’s too many parents come teacher/parent conferences?) This was tried last term and failed. All this is in direct line with in-vitro fertilization creation of human lives. Apparently more and more in-vitro donors want to come out of the test tube and turn the family into a democrat majority. The LGBT lobby has successfully degraded the Rite of Marriage now they are trying to break up the ancient and traditional right of children to parents. With this legislation someone could also, in future, decide that it is no longer to their benefit to be one of the parents and drop out taking monetary support with them.

Though we blame Obama and his Executive Orders for much of the change and social turmoil, he is only the latest transitioner-in-chief. Many who comment on the social scene end their articles with the warning that “people had better wake up before we lose our children and our Country,”

Here is a wake-up call from The Quotable Fulton J. Sheen, pg 33, regarding children: “Lenin once said that he cared not how many people in Russia over fifty opposed Communism; all he wanted were the children.”

Lesson #9. Distract the citizens. While we are all arguing over whether Obama’s a citizen, or who is going to pay for health care, or whether Common Core education is a positive or a negative, the federal government is getting our children classroom by classroom, federal grant by federal grant. Will you continue to allow that to happen or will you fight to protect the children from a future enslavement to the Government Nanny State?

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The 2013 legislative session is drawing to an end.
Camille Giglio

Dozens of bills are now awaiting final action on the Senate or Assembly floor or the Governor’s desk.

In the 1960’s there began to be a great emphasis on what was cynically referred to as psycho-babble, touchy/feely psychology or the beginnings of the “me too” generation. Former Assemblyman John Vasconcellos wrote a book blaming family and church for all the problems of the world. He spent his whole time in the legislature trying to pass a new education master plan in which children would be relieved of these restrictive ideologies.

Over the years and quietly before our eyes, all of this was slowly and quietly, through university professors, foundations and lobbying groups, being slipped into position as public policy and political candidates were using clever and deceptive language at times to convince the voters that America needed change which could happen through health care and education.

Over the years pro life groups including ours have watched and recorded this this movement to change America and its Christian basis. President Obama is not the first to lead the change charge nor, probably, will he be the last. He has been the most successful and efficient in gathering support from the public in this effort.

The same modus operandi has been going on within the states, Governor Brown and the Democrat majority in the legislature along with some Republicans are merely the latest in a long line of change agents for California implementing the designs of these progressive organizations and leaders.

This legislative term appears to be producing the culmination of years of efforts to place California in the lead position bringing this change to fruition. Much of ObamaCare is in place or soon will be. Common Core education standards - direct federal intervention in local affairs - is being promoted. Today’s 8/14/13 Contra Costa Times article “New Standards Confuse,” speaking about whether or not the California public is ready to accept Common Core, implies that there is a “heavy” campaign soon to begin encouraging acceptance of the new education master plan, k-20. Yes, I said 20, not K-12 anymore. This article refutes a previously published article in the Times, referring to the same Pew survey results, which claim that parents accept the continual testing (data gathering) portion of Common Core Education Standards.

So far the Governor has vetoed two bills which we opposed:

AB 926, Susan Bonilla, Reproductive Health and Research, paying women who donate their reproductive eggs for research; and, SB 540, Mark Wyland, Career Technical Ed: Recognition Certificates. Substituting a certificate of training in place of a diploma.

Gov. Brown’s veto message regarding SB 540 is a great example of his confused thinking:
“I commend the author for wanting to encourage students to enroll in career education, but this bill does not comport with the principle of subsidiary, so important to a sound allocation of power between state and local authority.”

Brown has taken this explanation right out of his Catholic seminary student days. Too bad he hasn’t been using this principle on all the Obama Care and Common Core global education legislation.

Richard Pan’s AB 980, building standards codes for abortion clinics. Will be heard in Senate Appropriations on August 26th. The language of the bill has grown strident, “It is the intent of the Legislature to preempt, and to render inoperative, Section 1226.7 of the 2013 Triennial Edition of the California Building Standards Code.” This means that building codes pertaining to clinics providing abortions will be no different in sanitation/plumbing, room size, entry shall be no different than any exam room in a strip mall clinic.

AB 154, Toni Atkins, midwives performing abortions, is still awaiting a final floor vote. At its last hearing the Senate appropriations committee placed the bill on Suspense due to the amount of funding required to implement the bill, however, an Appropriations Committee spokesperson told me that the bill was passed on to the Senate floor because they did not find it exceeded their funding limits of either $50,000. for a General Fund bill or $150,000. for a special fund bill. The last time we saw the bill it had a total of $300,000. in it.

Several bills and Resolutions have been either signed or Chaptered, including:
SJR 2, A resolution urging congress to approve the Violence Against Women Act - WAVA - a federal bill embracing the UN position on Women and Children’s rights over the U.S. Constitution.

Four bills, by Sen. Ed. Hernandez expanding Medi-Cal and the numbers of those who can receive health care coverage. Also a bill AB 643 to expand those groups and community agencies who may have access to pupil records.

Twenty-nine bills which we tagged in health and education are on the Governor’s desk awaiting his decision. Plus many more sent to either of the Appropriations Committee suspense files.

Here are a few examples of media publications designed more for manipulating one’s mind than for delivering facts.

1.7.13, State Assembly speaker, John Perez,(D) rents out the Sacramento Catholic Cathedral, (as usual) for an interfaith prayer service convening the state legislature. Perez is openly homosexual and enjoys a 100% support rating from Planned Parenthood.

Question: Why is the Catholic Church renting out the Blessed Sacramento Cathedral to a body which in the main, opposes everything about the church? Is the Bishop in support of the Democrat agenda?

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s AB 460, fertility, would delete any requirement for proof of infertility for gay and lesbian couples or individuals to receive fertility treatment payments, at the insurer’s expense, simply because their sexual unions cannot produce children? That’s sort of like paying farmers not to grow wheat. Neither Ammiano’s website nor the progressive media mention this bill.

The Sunday, August 18, Contra Costa Times, publishing an Associated Press article that declares “Most parents back standardized tests.” This is in reference to acceptance of the heavily promoted Common Core Standards to be implemented in conjunction with federal education and universal education innovations.

A YouTube presentation on Common Core standards, shows a Chicago suburban curriculum coordinator (old name - teacher) declaring that: “it doesn’t matter (if kids don’t get the right answer in math) as long as they can explain how their reasoning helped them obtain that answer.” This is now referred to as math literacy. Let’s hope no one with that math literacy was involved in constructing the new Bay Bridge.

AB 166, by Sen. Ed Hernandez, Pupil Instruction: financial Literacy, is California’s contribution to the dumbing down of students. If it doesn’t matter, according to the Chicago illuminati what the correct mathematical answer is what good is financial literacy going to do the students of tomorrow? Right now the definition of zero personal finances doesn’t’ mean no money, broke. It means the opportunity to file for state aid. And, if they can’t read, it further means employing a “Navigator” to assist them in applying for aid. That’s workforce development, folks.

Definition of Navigator? Aggressive used car salesman.

AB 271, by Holly Mitchell,(D), http://www.asmdc.org/members/a54/biography CalWorks: Eligibility, would repeal the Family Cap prohibiting the denial of welfare payments to unwed mothers for any reason whatsoever. Prior to her election to the state Assembly, Mitchell was on the staff of former state Senator Diane Watson, one of the most rabid pro abort supporters to be elected to state office. As Chairman of the Senate Health Committee, she once refused to allow pro lifers to give testimony on a bill, threatening to call the police and throw them out.

The bill removes the hotly contested federal regulation and limitations on receipt of welfare for unwed mothers, created within the TANF law - Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. Progressive organizations never liked these taxpayer protective regulations and have tried periodically to get rid of them. The supporters, including the California Catholic Conference, claim compassion for the much maligned poor woman who has more children while on welfare and, therefore, they should have the right to petition for increased welfare payments. It is hoped that this pseudo compassionate position will ”create a point of common ground between pro-choice and anti-choice camps.” http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/08/21/repealing-welfare-family-cap-laws-a-common-goal-for-some-pro-and-anti-choice-groups/

Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, (D-Concord) used a Pew Survey to cite statistics in her AB 926 to declare the alarming statistics on the decreased number of doctors “recommended” by ObamaCare to be available especially in rural communities. Her bill would have expanded the role of and supply of nurse assistants to supplant the role of the doctor in services to patients, such as abortion. She was really peeved when Governor Brown vetoed that bill.

The word “recommended” used here is very interesting. This is a subtle acknowledgement that there may not be an actual shortage of doctors, only an unattainable figure for sufficient doctors that the feds would like to see in practice to the state. That reminds me of the complaint about the former No Child Left Behind law. Educators complained that the requirements of the federal government were impossible to obtain regarding educational excellence for all. This “failure” resulted in federal oversight of some schools.

SB 744, Ricardo Lara, (D) Involuntary transfer to community schools. This sort of bill usually means that it is dealing with students who have been expelled from regular high school due to failing grades or disciplinary problems and requiring placement in Continuation high schools.

However, a Community School is defined differently than a Continuation High School, according to the Ca. Dept of Education web site. This is both an idea and a program. Students placed in community schools will receive community services in an education/community org. partnership, along with academic subjects and this facility will be open 24/7 to the general community, to receive such services as health homes, mental health and physical health assessments., nutrition, etc. It probably also means mixed-sex bathrooms. Oh, excuse me, mixed gender bathrooms. There’s still only two sexes, but 5 or so genders.

In the next few days we will be placing on our Callifeadvocates website, a long list of bills awaiting action. We have several articles and subjects listed on our website and invite you to begin linking to that site on a more frequent basis. www.callifeadvocates.org/blog.

Please consider a donation of $24.99 to support our work. Mail to California Right to Life Committee, Inc. 1920 Monument Blvd, #309, Concord, Ca 94520. Every bit of that donation goes into the bank and is only spent on research, subscriptions and supplies.

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August 13, 2013
Camille Giglio

The California Senate Appropriations Committee was very busy yesterday sending most bills to the Suspense file while Governor Brown was busy consigning the state’s schools’ bathrooms (AB 1266), to the LGBT crowd. It is now up to parents to fight for their children’s privacy with each school.

So, one could say that the day was spent in bullying and blackmailing conducted by our state’s esteemed legislators.

The Senate Appropriations hearing room was packed with representatives of both the abortion industry and the pro life community in anticipation of the hearing on AB 154, Assembly Woman Toni Atkins bill to authorize midwives and nurse practitioners to commit abortions without physician, or, basically, any supervision.

The Richard Pan companion bill, AB 980, on building construction standards for abortion facilities, was pulled from the hearing. No reason given.

Bills that are sent to the Appropriations committee are presumed to contain new money, new costs to the state. Bills that exceed $50,000.00 of General Fund money and bills that contain $150,000.00 of Special Fund money are required to go to a Suspense file rather than just be passed on. There was not a quorum present at any time to pass anything anyway.

Several bills were heard before bringing up AB 154. These all went to Suspense. Assemblywoman Atkins presentation of the bill’s purpose made it rather clear that this was more a workforce development bill than a health care bill. She spoke to the so-called need to provide more access for more women to have abortions which to any sane person, means, providing more abortionists.

It is now obvious that physicians are refusing to commit abortions anymore and so, in order for Planned Parenthood to keep its share of market in the abortion business alive (you should pardon the pun) they have to provide other means of aborting women and they are planning to do that by training lesser qualified employees who will work at lower salaries. This is their idea of cost savings to the state.

The bill does have well over the $150.000.00 limit. Sen. There is a one time cost of up to $150,000 for adoption or revision of regulations by the Board of Registered Nursing. (Weren’t we all told that the nursing scope of practice already had all that taken care of?).

There is a one time cost of $150,000 for adoption or revision Calpers funds is indeterminate and not even considered as regards to the Appropriation Committee and its mandate to estimate all costs of things.

The official Senate Appropriations Committee analysis suggests that whether this increases the number of abortions because it is not known whether a so-called lack of abortionists has decreased the number of abortions.

One of the pro life witnesses spoke to this issue declaring that through phone calls placed to a large number of abortion facilities it was declared that one could obtain an abortion within the hour, the day or the week. no problem.

This is one big experimental program operated by Planned Parenthood and using vulnerable and pregnant women to gather data on “best practices” to be used in future as all abortions are adapted to being performed by women as their source of a paycheck.

Ted Gaines, (R) called for the bill to be put into suspense. Kevin DeLeon, the Chairman, called for a vote on that which was two or one in favor passing the bill on. Since there was not a quorum, De Leon said he would hold the vote open. Then Sen. Gaines came back and said, wait a minute, this billl has more than the $150,000.00 and must go in to suspense. It was, therefore, agreed to put the bill in Suspense.

Assembly woman Atkins, who, I might add, was once a Planned Parenthood clinic director in the San Diego area, was given a final response which she spent scolding the committee for even considering whether the pro life witnesses had anything worthwhile to say. She basically claimed that anyone believing what the pro lifers say is insane.

She further challenged the committee members to come to her for advise and she would clear up all misstatements that the pro lifers gave.

The Senate Appropriations Committee will accept letters on bills, if they specifically focus on costs. They will be given to the committee member working on getting the bill to meet the committee’s requirements.

Senator Ted Gaines should be thanked for his willingness to stand up and require that the committee adhere to its normal procedures.

I have no date for further hearings on the bill.

Other bills related to pro life concerns also heard in Appropriations yesterday and placed on Suspense:

AB 714, Bob Wieckowski, (D), Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund. Authorizes the state’s General Fund to provide $1 million dollars to establish the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999 at U.C., Berkeley.
AB 1299, Stephen Bradford, (-L.A.) Universal Service Programs: Advanced Services Fund. Approves Broadband services be installed in every California low-income publicly supported housing community.

AB 361, Holly Mitchell, (D-Culver City) Medi-Cal: Health Homes for Medi-Cal Enrollees. authorizes medical homes for medi-Cal enrollees for chronic conditions. Toni Atkins is a principal co-author. Appears to be focused on surrounding the homeless with a buffet of community services rather than have them continually call 911 for rides to the ER. The bill doesn’t explain how they intend to get these patients to the medical homes or keep track of them.

AB 626, Nancy Skinner (D) School Nutrition. Conforms the state to the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, requiring schools to comply with federal standards for nutrition, thereby increasing the costs of food, snacks, etc while limiting caloric intake and expanding the free and reduced-price meals available at schools for both breakfast and lunch.

Like so many education bills this one also pretty much by-passes local supervision and control placing the school directly under federal supervision and guidance.

AB 514, Rob Bonta, (D-Oakland) The Safe Schools and Safe Learning Act of 2013.
This bill deals with mental health and counseling of students who may claim to have been discriminated against or harassed or bullied in any way in or outside of school, creating web sites and referral systems for students seeking counseling and support.
Basically this bill is just a window-dressing claiming to make all children safe and free from aggressors, but it proposes to do this by creating referrals to community organizations, like so many other bills. If all the people whom legislators claim need mental health counseling were to use all these electronic referral programs underwritten by state tax dollars, there wouldn’t be enough social workers, Marriage and Family Therapists or psychologists to attend to all the people and the charges to the state for the service would be astronomical.

This last bill has passed all its committees and is awaiting a final hearing in the full Senate.

PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL SENATOR AND URGE A “NO” VOTE ON AB 154 WHEN IT COMES TO THE FULL SENATE FOR A HEARING. THAT TIME WILL COME QUICKLY.

THE LEGISLATORS HAVE BEEN MADE AWARE THAT THE PRO LIFE COMMUNITY IS AROUSED TO ACTION BECAUSE OF THIS BILL. YOUR CONTINUED ACTIVE OPPOSITION IS THE ONLY THING THAT MAY INFLUENCE THEM TO DEFEAT THIS BILL OR FOR THE GOVERNOR TO VETO.

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August 8, 2013
Camille Giglio

The Associated Press headline screamed “Pivotol decline in child obesity.” The article declared, knowingly, that “after decades on the rise, childhood obesity rates recently have essentially been flat.” The article makes the assumption that this is as a result of governmental involvement with nutrition programs. Actually it is a non-news item because it says that obesity levels aren’t going anywhere.

Another AP headline declared “How old is too old?” The opening statement proclaims to reflect the public’s opinion on aging: “Ninetieth birthday, maybe okay, but not 120,” according to a Pew Pole. There were no quotes from 95 year olds, for example, especially any saying “I’m too old to still be living.”

The point here is not whether the stats on obesity are declining or whether one or another age is too old. The point is that each and everyone is constantly being evaluated and analyzed with data recorded and reported somewhere. Then it is turned into what is now referred to as “best practices” which becomes government iron-clad policy.

How did we let ourselves get into this position of being, basically, guinea pigs for the government?
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The Assembly returned from recess on August 5th and produced its latest long list of (Senate originated) bills approved for passage to the next committee or to the Governor.

On Monday, August 12, beginning at 10:00 AM in the State Capitol, another huge long list of (Assembly authored) bills will be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

An online search of legislation for bills related to expanded abortion access or mental and physical health services administered by nurseing but non-physician staff brings up a total of 15 related bills; anyone of which could be last minute amended to incorporate portions of all the other bills before the Governor signs anything.

That is why it is so very important for a huge show of opposition on the lead bill, AB 154.

All of these bills are supported by stakeholder entities with the same generic purpose, expanded access to expanded government services, taxpayer funding, no supervision.

For our purposes the most infamous of these are:

AB 154, Tony Atkins, Abortion performed by non-physicians. The House Speaker, John Perez, (D-L.A.) has spoken publicly about the necessity of passing this bill in order to further enable women broader access to abortion. It’s as though aborting one’s child is looked upon by these legislators as a required Rite of Passage into socially responsible adulthood for women.

AB 980, Richard Pan, (D) Building Standards: Abortion. Not only must women be encouraged to fulfill their social duty by aborting their progeny, the perpetrators of abortion must be allowed to provide this “service” with unlimited authorization, supervision or oversight in either the personnel or the facilities used.

AB 174, Bob Bonta, (D-Oakland), Public School Health Centers. Establishes a grant program in the Oakland, Ca. School district for a pilot program of mental health services to students and their families “impacted by trauma.”

Two federal bills, HR 320 and HR1100, have similar goals.

This bill started its life as a weapons bill and within a month was gutted and amended into a mental health-4-all pilot program. This bill provides every stakeholder agency within travel distance to have access to students and their families to convince them that they need professional services to overcome trauma. Trauma will be re-defined to include, apparently, bullying, family violence, mental and behavioral health, ooutreach, education and counseling by a vast array of community health care workers, social workers, licensed and unlicensed “mental health professional(s)” and community non-profit agencies.

Here, especially, is where a rich supply of personal data will be collected, analyzed, researched, compared sent to scientific bodies to analyse, and selected for Best Practices.

Here is a statement provided by the National Assembly on School-Based Care (NASBC):

• There are currently 200 SHCs in California.
• Forty-four percent of SHCs are in high schools.
• Thirty-one percent are in elementary schools.
• Thirteen percent are in middle schools, and twelve percent are "school-linked" or mobile medical vans.
• About 70 percent of students receive free or reduced price meals.
• Since 2012, CSHCA estimates that 13,500 children have gained access to health care in their school through the expansion of SHCs.
• SHCs are administered by a variety of organizations, including school districts, Federally Qualified Health Centers, county health departments, hospitals, community-based agencies, and private physician groups.
• They are financed through grants from state, local, and private sources as well as reimbursements from public programs, such as the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program and Medi-Cal.
• According to CSHCA, more than half of SHCs recover less than 50 percent of their operating costs from billing sources.

SB 491, Ed Hernandez (D) Nurse Practitioners. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. “Authorizes a nurse practitioner to perform certain acts such as medical diagnosis, prescribe drugs or devices refer patients delegate taks to medifal assistants, order hospice care (or no care) without physician supervision or family or parental knowledge.

This vastly amended bill actually failed passage in its Senate Business, Professions & Consumer Protection hearing last week mostly because of the unknown costs of administering, but was authorized for re-consideration.

The Irony? Patients who sign DNRs-do not resuscitate- forms can’t get a reprieve, but bills that carry a DNR order can be resuscitated apparently.

SB 493, Ed Hernandez, (D) Pharmacy Practice. Among other expanded scope of practice issues, this bill authorizes pharmacists to furnish “self-administered hormonal contraceptives.

Hearing pending in the Assembly Health Committee.

SB 494, Bill Monning. (D-San Luis Obispo) with Ed Hernandez, (D) as co-author. Health Care Providers: California Health Benefit. As stated in the bill “Authorizes assigning health care enrollees to a primary care physician if that physician also supervises one or more non-physician medical practitioner. Defines non-physician medical practitioners as a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner.”

In other words, instead of a primary care physician, the bill would add non-physician medical practitioner to the definition of a primary care provider such as a physician assistant, or nurse practitioner.

The bill is awaiting a re-hearing in the Assembly Committee on Health.

PRAYER TO END ABORTION
Heavenly Father, with confidence and firm trust we come
to you in our great need. We thank you for answering the prayer
even before we ask, because we know that it is your Holy Will.
Remove from our county the scourge of abortion. Change the
minds and hearts of all who promote this evil, or who seek abortion
as a remedy. Make us willing to make the sacrifice of
prayer andpenance necessary to obtain this grace from you.
Heavenly Father we ask you this, through the intercession of
Mary, and in the name of Jesus, Your Son. Amen

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FROM KINDERGARTEN TO END-OF-LIFE
August 6, 2013
Camille Giglio

At least fourteen (14) new Congressional bills have been submitted by members of the House of Representatives concerning health and education issues. These bills, for now, have no language, only a title and suggested substance. Eleven are Republican bills attempting to stop, limit, or amend the Affordable Care Act in some way. Most of these should, in future, probably be vigorously supported.

Three education bills lacking substantive language, are submitted by Democrats, including one by Cong. Linda Sanchez dealing with same-sex issues. These should be vigorously opposed when the final intention is brought to light.

In Sacramento, many of the bills that have sat unnoticed quietly slipping over into their Second House, have now been amended exposing their true and dangerous intent. Most of them are heading for a final Appropriations Committee hearing.

REGARDING HEALTH CARE

SB 330, Alex Padilla, Pupil Instruction: Health: Mental Health Instruction.
Requires changes to Health Framework for California Public Schools, to expand a curriculum on mental health instructions. It further authorizes schools to utilize programs from other states and COUNTRIES! What, Russia, China, Iran?

Interpretation? Everybody’s emotionally or mentally unbalanced and needs what only professionals can provide, the proper outlook on life in order to succeed. This so strongly adheres to former legislator John Vasconcellos constant attempts to promote while in office - family and church represent the source of everyone’s (so-called) mental and emotional problems.

SB 138, Ed Hernandez, (D) Confidentiality of Medical Information. It addresses the issue of protecting medical information from inappropriate disclosure to persons or agencies not approved to receive this information, while at the same time other bills broaden the arena of agencies who may receive heretofore private medical data.

SB 491, Ed Hernandez,(D), Nurse Practitioners. This bill accomplishes the same goal as Tony Atkins, AB 154. It greatly expands the scope of practice and authorizes nurse practitioners. etc, to act in lieu of doctors, make referrals to doctors or clinics (realize this includes abortion shops), make changes in end-of-life medical plans without patient approval, develop mental health preventive plans (in school counseling centers).

SB 528, Leland Yee, Dependents: Care and treatment: Minor parents and Non minor Dependent parents. Expands the scope of services to which a minor may consent without parental approval including foster children. The wording is so vague that it would appear to give authorization to minors to consent to injections such as the dreaded Gardasil.

All the Senate (SB) bills are awaiting hearing in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Call or fax the committee and urge NO votes. Phone: 916-319-2081/fax: 916-319-2181.

ASSEMBLY EDUCATION COMMITTEE

SB 192, Carol Liu,(D), Early Learning and Educational Support Services.
This bill, amended 6 times, mandates vast amounts of expenditures to overhaul and consolidate the education system including salaries of expanded faculty, incorporating training and services beginning with infants and their families to be provided by the Department of Education.

It amends a large number of Education codes merging them into one Act - The Child Care and Development Services Act or as it will be renamed: The Early Learning and Education Support Act.

The state legislative analyst’s office predicts that this will create “potentially substantial loss of state savings, likely millions of dollars annually, as well as minor administrative costs to the California Department of Education and Prop 98 funds.

This bill is as much a workforce development promotion as well as a total takeover of the family and every individual living within a family. It aligns with and activates the bills just mentioned above that would provide womb to tomb government guidance for all. Recall that yesterday I reported on SB 402, Breastfeeding?

ASSEMBLY AGING AND LONG-TERM CARE COMMITTEE

SJR 11, Mark DeSaulnier, (D), Housing with Services. Memorializes Congress to support integrating services into affordable housing requirements, placing the government prescribed “needed” services to low and middle income elderly within the same environment. This is also referred to as “Aging in Place.”

As I see it…

• Infants and mothers will be grouped in preventive programs that provide mandated government regimen such as breastfeeding and toilet training.
• School age children will have their early childhood education, mentall health services, nutrition programs and workforce pre-planned training programs
• Adults and young adults, already by now well trained and compliant, will have their government approved workforce placement assignments overseen by Medical homes.
• These groups of people will all be living in or near transit village, transportation hubs being provided with nutritious meals through community gardens certified to grow only nutritious and organic food. Restaurants that wish to survive will display certificates of approval issued by some governmental oversight office.
• Senior citizens will be moved into Hospice type medical Homes, bringing with them their POLST form indicating what medical care they require and when this care is authorized to decease and desist. Of course the senior citizen/patient might not know from day to day what that POLST form authorizes because the nurse practitioner will be continually adjusting the health care regimen.

All this can, of course, be stopped if all just get busy and pay attention to what the politicians in partnership with foundations and corporations are doing and through them out of office.

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