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New York, NY; October 12, 2022 – The National Association of Scholars, California Policy Center, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, Goldwater Institute, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, the John Locke Foundation, the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, The Palm Beach Freedom Institute, and the Washington Policy Center are jointly releasing the Model Education Licensure Code.
The Model Education Licensure Code provides three model bills state policymakers can use to reform education schools and the education licensure process—the Education Licensure Nondiscrimination Act, the Education Licensure Review Act, and the Education Licensure Certificate Act.
Education reformers must include education schools and education licensure in their reform agenda,” stated David Randall, National Association of Scholars Director of Research. “Radical activists use education schools and licensure requirements as their central means to gain power over America’s classrooms.”
Activists long ago seized control of education schools and began to insert ever more radical ideology and pedagogy into teacher training. The radicalized education schools propagandize teachers and screen out would-be teachers who refuse to acquiesce to the schools’ political demands.
“The radical activists also use education licensure requirements to force teachers and education administrators to receive degrees from education schools,” said Brandon Dutcher, Senior Vice President of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.
This requirement ensures that our schools’ education administrators and teachers are committed to an ideology not shared by many Americans. More recently, states such as Illinois and Minnesota have moved to impose explicitly politicized education licensure requirements. The body of teachers indoctrinated by politicized education schools and licensure requirements sabotage education reform laws wherever they can.
“Education reform cannot succeed so long as the radical education establishment controls the education of our teachers,” added Martin Center President Jenna Robinson. “Policymakers in each state should adapt these model bills to forward education reform most effectively.”
The three model bills work together to eliminate the radical establishment’s power to select America’s teachers.
- The Education Licensure Nondiscrimination Act forbids a broad range of the different means that activists use to politicize the education of our teachers.
- The Education Licensure Review Act gives state policymakers the power to veto politicized licensure requirements imposed by state education department bureaucrats.
- The Education Licensure Certificate Act, building on initial work done by states such as Arizona, establishes a standard path toward licensure that bypasses requirements for an undergraduate degree and minimizes education-school requirements.
“These three reforms make it possible for a new generation of liberty-minded teachers to enter the classroom,” said Dr. Terry Stoops, the Director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation.“This new generation will support education reform policy with a good heart.
Issuing Organizations: National Association of Scholars, California Policy Center, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, Goldwater Institute, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, John Locke Foundation, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, The Palm Beach Freedom Institute, Washington Policy Center.
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To learn more about this issue, please contact David Randall, Director of Research, National Association of Scholars, [email protected].
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