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9.24.2013

Common Core Education Forum for Parents and Educators - Sat. October 12th at 5:30 p.m.

              "COMMON CORE" - It's Impact on Our Local Schools & Community. 

On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Central Coast Tea Party and Tea Party Patriots of Monterey County will be hosting  a special presentation on "Common Core" examining it's impact on our local schools and community. The special guest speaker is Angela Davidson Weizinger of Parents and Educators Against Common Core. The meeting will be held in the Community Room of the Marina Public Library located at 190 Seaside Circle in Marina (behind the WalMart).  Doors open at 5:00 p.m. with the meeting starting at 5:30 p.m.

   Come learn the truth behind Common Core and Who's behind it.  Among the topics covered:
• The impact it will have on YOUR children, state and community;

•  Loss of privacy and parental rights;

•  Learn how the cost of implementing Common Core will affect YOU as a  tax payer and a member of the local community.

This event is open to the public.  Bring your neighbors and friends.


CLICK HERE TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION OF COMMON CORE STANDARDS



 

9.05.2013

Next meeting: David R. Henderson: "The Economic, Moral and Constitutional Case for Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy" - 9/12/2013 at 5:45 p.m..

"The Economic,  Moral  and Constitutional Case For a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy" is the topic of our next meeting to be held on Thursday, September 12, 2013, in the Community Room of the Marina Public Library located at 190 Seaside Circle in Marina (off of Reservation Road and behind WalMart).  There will be a Meet & Greet from 5:45 - 6:15 with the meeting starting at 6:15 p.m.

Our guest speaker David R. Henderson, Associate Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Navel Postgraduate School of Monterey, will be addressing this very critical and timely issue. Following his presentation, Professor Henderson will take questions.

The event is free and open to the public - donations to cover costs are appreciated!

Coffee and soda will be available.  Feel free to bring a "bag lunch" or an appetizer or finger food to share....

Seating is limited - so please RSVP to: speak-up-america@sbcglobal.net.


Check out the video interview with Prof. Henderson - A Case for Freedom...






For further information regarding our guest speaker...please read on:

David R. Henderson
David R. Henderson is an associate professor of economics at the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and a research fellow with the Fraser Institute. From 1982 to 1984, he was the senior economist for health policy and, from 1983 to 1984, the senior economist for energy policy, with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. His specialty is in making economics understandable to non-economists. He blogs regularly at Econlog, http://econlog.econlib.org/.

Henderson is the editor of The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (Liberty Fund, 2008). It is now on the web at: http://www.econlib.org/library/CEE.html. It has been translated into Russian and Arabic. His book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey, was published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in the fall of 2001, and has been translated into Chinese. He also wrote, with his former student, Charles L. Hooper, Making Great Decisions in Business and Life (Chicago Park Press, 2006). It has been translated into Japanese and Korean. He also writes a column, “The Wartime Economist,” for www.antiwar.com.

He has written about 200 articles for such popular publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Fortune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Public Interest, National Review, Red Herring, and Reason. He has also written scholarly articles for such journals as: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Independent Review, Cato Journal, Regulation, Contemporary Policy Issues, Defense & Security Analysis, Eastern European Economics, Econ Journal Watch, and Energy Journal.

He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. He also appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, the O’Reilly Factor, MSNBC, Russia Today, and the Stossel show, and has done radio interviews with NPR, CBC, BBC, KQED-FM and many regional radio stations.

Born and raised in Canada, he moved to the United States in 1972, where he earned a Ph.D. in economics at UCLA. He proudly became a U.S. citizen in 1986.