CACR 8 is the MOST important bill of this year in terms of restoring educational freedom. If you value educational freedom, come to Concord this Tuesday to support this constitutional amendment.
CACR 8 restores Art. 6, Pt. 1 that got massacred in the 19964 revision. It’s being studied by the House Education Committee and will have a sub-committee meeting this Tuesday at 9 am in the LOB room 207.
Retained Bill – Subcommittee Work Session: 9/20/2011 at 9:00 AM in LOB room 207
CACR 8 would restore our EXCLUSIVE right clause to hire and contract our own local teachers; it also adds a provision that guarantees the local district the prerogative to establish our own curricula. Forget “No Child Left Behind” or national Core Curriculum. It would make all those problems a thing of the past…. so long as we can forgo the funding bribes that come with those programs.
CACR 8 is written as follows:
I. That article 6 of the first part of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
[Art.] 6. [[Morality and Piety.]] As morality and piety, rightly grounded on [high principles] the principles of self-government expressed in the Constitution, will give the best and greatest security to government, and will lay, in the hearts of men, the strongest obligations to due subjection; and as the knowledge of these is most likely to be propagated through a society by establishment of schools for that purpose, therefore, the people of this State have a right to empower, and do hereby fully empower the Legislature to authorize from time to time, the public schools in the political subdivisions for public education and charter schools and the several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies[,] corporate, or religious societies shall at all times have the exclusive right of electing their own teachers, [and] of contracting with them for their support or maintenance, or both, and of establishing their own curricula. The several political subdivisions for public education, charter schools, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies shall make adequate provision at their own expense for their schools, provided that the Legislature may supplement that provision in the manner and degree that the Legislature finds most beneficial to the general good. But no person shall ever be compelled to pay towards the support of the [schools] religious education of any sect or denomination. And every person, denomination or sect shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination of any one sect, denomination or persuasion to another shall ever be established.