Calif. Schools To Teach Students About ‘Significance’ Of
Obama Presidency
August 26, 2014
8:18 AM
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PASADENA (CBSLA.com/AP) — A bill authored by a Pasadena
lawmaker that encourages schools to teach
about the historical significance of Barack Obama becoming
the nation’s first African-American president is now California law.
KNX 1070’s Bob Brill reports Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1912, whose author,
Assemblymember Chris Holden, says will be the first step toward acknowledging
President Obama’s legacy for generations to come.
AB 1912 asks
the State Board of Education
and the Instructional Quality Commission advisory panel to include the
“significance of the United States electing its first African American
President” in the 2008 election in the state’s history and social science
standards for grades seven to twelve.
The bill – which passed
the Assembly in April a 71-0 vote and no debate or discussion –
calls the election a “historic step in the effort towards equality in the
United States” and that previous elections in the nation involved intimidation
and physical violence that prevented millions of African-Americans from voting,
according to the Associated Press.
It also commends Obama for his work as a community organizer
who registered voters after he graduated from Harvard Law School.
“Just 145 years after the signing of the Emancipation
Proclamation, and only a generation removed from the civil rights struggles,
President Obama’s election represented the moment when all things seemed
possible,” Holden said in a statement.
California hasn’t updated its guidelines for teaching social
studies classes since 2005. A 2009 effort was cancelled because of limited money,
the Associated Press reported.
But while Holden said the legislation enjoyed overwhelming,
bipartisan support as it made its way through Sacramento this year, author and
political analyst
Earl Ofari Hutchinson said it’s unusual for a state legislature to pass a bill
telling schools they should include a president in classroom curriculum.
“There really shouldn’t be a need for this, a special bill,”
said Hutchinson. “Obviously, President Obama did make history, becoming the first
African-American [President], but on the other hand, he is the
President of the United States. It is a signature accomplishment in the sense
that, as other presidents, they’re routinely taught.”
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Barack
Obama is the president for the Barack
Obama administration, and was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Note: Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister, was the California state government treasurer, and her
father was Pat Brown.
Jerry Brown is Kathleen
Brown’s brother, the California state government governor, and his
father was Pat Brown.
Pat Brown was Kathleen
Brown & Jerry Brown’s father, and the California state
government governor.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for
the Barack Obama administration, and was a director at the Joyce
Foundation.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for Achieve Inc.
Achieve Inc. helped
develop the Common Core educational standards.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for Achieve Inc.
Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the founder
of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a
funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United States in war and said they must control
education)
Finally, of course, the war is
over. At that time their interest shifts over to preventing what they call a
reversion of life in the United States to what it was prior to 1914 when World
War I broke out. At that point they came to the conclusion that, to prevent a
reversion, “we must control education
in the United States.” They realize that that's
a pretty big task. It is too big for them alone, so they approach the
Rockefeller Foundation with the suggestion that that portion of education which
could be considered domestic be handled by the Rockefeller Foundation and that
portion which is international should be handled by the Endowment.
They then decide that the key to success of these two operations lay in the
alteration of the teaching of American history.
So they approach four of the then-most prominent teachers of American history in the country – people like Charles and Mary Byrd – and their suggestion to them is: will they alter the manner in which they present their subject? And they got turned down flat. So they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, “build our own stable of historians.”
Then they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say: “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American history and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so?” And the answer is yes. So, under that condition, eventually they assembled assemble twenty, and they take this twenty potential teachers of American history to London, and there they're briefed on what is expected of them when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned. That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association.
So they approach four of the then-most prominent teachers of American history in the country – people like Charles and Mary Byrd – and their suggestion to them is: will they alter the manner in which they present their subject? And they got turned down flat. So they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, “build our own stable of historians.”
Then they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say: “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American history and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so?” And the answer is yes. So, under that condition, eventually they assembled assemble twenty, and they take this twenty potential teachers of American history to London, and there they're briefed on what is expected of them when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned. That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association.
Robert C. Darnton
was the president of the American
Historical Association, and is the library director for Harvard University.
Roger W.
Ferguson Jr. was an overseer at Harvard
University, and a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).
Jon M. Huntsman
Jr. is a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and was the China
U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama
administration.
Barack
Obama is the president for the Barack
Obama administration, was an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Harvard
Law Review.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister, was the California state government treasurer, her father
was Pat Brown, and an attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Jerry Brown is Kathleen
Brown’s brother, the California state government governor, and his
father was Pat Brown.
Pat Brown was Kathleen
Brown & Jerry Brown’s father, and the California state
government governor.
Danielle C. Gray
was a lawyer at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and an editor for the Harvard
Law Review.
Ronald A. Klain
was an editor for the Harvard Law Review,
and a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Thomas E. Donilon is a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, was the White House deputy national security
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank
Derek
Douglas was an associate at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and a special assistant for urban
affairs for the Barack Obama
administration.
William T.
Coleman Jr. is a senior partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, and a senior trustee at the Carnegie
Institution for Science.
Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie Institution for Science, the founder of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), and the founder of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York.
Warren
Christopher was an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New
York, and a senior partner
at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for Achieve Inc.
Achieve Inc. helped
develop the Common Core educational standards.
Joyce Foundation
was a funder for Achieve Inc.
Valerie B. Jarrett
was a director at the Joyce Foundation, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister, was the California state government treasurer, and her
father was Pat Brown.
Jerry Brown is Kathleen
Brown’s brother, the California state government governor, and his
father was Pat Brown.
Pat Brown was Kathleen
Brown & Jerry Brown’s father, and the California state
government governor.
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