This is Nullification! This is the most exciting thing ever! Finally, someone is using this legal means to stop the erosion of States' Rights by an ever intrusive Federal take-over. Now, the other 49 States need to follow suit.....and use Nullification to stop all other unconstitutional edicts! Then....interpose State Militias between Federal agents and the people. The Governor of each state is the Commander of the state military according to the Constitution.

(And I hope I spelled everything right since that's the only criticism some folks could muster!)

It would have more impact if we could just get other states to follow suit. DOE is a total waste of taxpayer money!! It should be up to the states to decide. I agree with mtnmedic1!

For those who are not aware of the wonderful work Cynthia Dunbar has done while serving on the SBOE please be aware that she is a "warrior" who has been fighting for the rights of your children to be taught using programs that work such as phonics and English grammar rules. She has fought for the rights of your children to be taught that evolution is a theory and not a Scientific Law. She has championed the right of our children to be taught that though the USA has made mistakes throughout history, our country is still an exceptional country.

From this resolution you can probably tell she believes the Constitution and other founding documents are based on the unique idea that America's citizens derive their rights from God rather than from government, and since God gave us our rights, government cannot take them away. She is not advocating Civil War . She is advocating the federal government follow the Constitution and allow the states to run their own schools.

It is not surprising that Cynthia Dunbar has given us this resolution as a present before she leaves the SBOE to pursue her law career and to sell her book. We cannot expect her to continue to work for free for the rest of her life. She has given us a great portion of her life already. An American Indian, Cynthia was able to look backward and forward to give the SBOE and Texas Education a unique perspective on America. I appreciate her service to the Texas Public Education System and I wish her well in her new career.

I LOVE it !!!!! Go Texas GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell the Feds to STICK it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Texas really does this and "sticks to their guns", in a few years, I'll bet Texas kids will be the SMARTEST kids in the whole damned country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank God for Texas , Texas has taken the lead in curtailing the excesses of the federal government . With the text book controversy , the Muslim political correctness and lack of support of Christianity over Islam , and now the DOE rejection . With Govenor Perry leading the republican governors he needs to continue Texas leadership , pick up Oklahomas Sharia law ban and Arizonas immigration law and get all republican governors to follow suit on all this . We need our Constitutional Republic back .

I'll go Ms. Dunbar one better. Since education is NOT an ENUMERATED power granted to the federal govt. by the U.S. Constitution We should introduce a bill to ELIMINATE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION!!! Think of all the money we could save while eliminating an organization that should NEVER have been authorized under the constitution.

The only reason for the existence of the department of Education is to act as a govt. lobbying arm to reward the teachers unions and the NEA, After all O Bow Mao himself said "I OWE THE UNIONS BIG TIME"! That is a universal DemonRAT sentiment.

Wake up, Texas has the right Idea stand up for yourself. If we dont obviously no one will. Please people remember the foundations the United States was founded on and fight for them for our children and grandchildren. This President has made a mockery of the United States of America. Think back and be proud of our country and let that pride take over and we the people take back our country one state at a time if need be.

Thank you Halo9X, but maybe the writers of the Bill are just demonstrating the results of years of Federal Government education control.

God Bless(ed) Texas!

CONGRATULATIONS TEXANS! God Bless you all for standing up and defending the constitutional rights we have. all these bureaucrats have no right to be in the position of power and should be fire for their lousy job they had performed. We need candidates with a Real backbone who loves this country for what it stand and its citizens! Most of them had become millionaires with our sufferings with higher taxes every time they want to imposed them and self-serving themselves with salary increases and all the freebies it comes with it. It's outrageous and shameful what some of them had done to our great country and it's time to send them to get a real job back home to take care of their families. We can do it if we ALL get UNITED and willing to change the socialist/marxist government imposed on us by the Kenyan citizen! Wake Up America!

I remember what my grandfather said when my father told him about the "new school lunch program."
I did not understand it then as I was only in the second grade (early fifties). My grandfather said, "That is the beginning of the end of education in America. The federal government now has their foot in the door. They will proceed to take over and destroy the education system." Dad was surprised, but time has proven my grandfather to be right.

Who started the department of Education? Tell me again? Jimmy Carter was it? the worst President until now!!! What does this say. How has nation-wide education fared against the rest of the world since this crime was committed? Lousy! We can do the job in-state, there doesn't need to be anyone else telling each state how to educate our kids! Time for the FED to butt OUT!!!

I'm a married woman that does not cheat on her husband! However, I'd like to kiss every single one of these people right on the mouth. Seems they have more spine than I'd given credit for!
ABOUT TIME I SEE SOME SANITY!

Texas is amazing. They are setting the standards for what every state should do. Parents and communities should be running the schools--not the NEA and not the Department of Education. The Bible should be brought back into the schools. This nation's primary religion is Christianity in its various forms. Until this changes, other religions should not be given preferential treatment in our society. Parents have the right to use whatever textbooks they want. Students should not be subjected to textbooks that leave out our Christian heritage. May God enable Texas to continue and succeed in this fight. May she continue to lead the other states in every effort necessary to restore freedom in this great country.

Yipee....Yahooo!

Amen.

We need to all follow the example of Texas, and take our country back state by state. They are quickly trying to take our right away to do that. We need to act quickly before we are just another 3rd world country and our children will be ruled , and freedom will be a thing of the past. China is angry and on our coast sending up missiles from submarines, and Obama is running all over the world telling everyone we are not a Judeo Christain country and planning to be away again from our country when we celebrate Christ's birthday. We had better wake up. George Soros and his money is using Obama to destroy our heart and soul.

We need to take out the GARBAGE in this country, as in,obuma ,pislosi,reid, feinstein,boxer and last but not least the clintons,alias bonnie & clyde, two of the biggest thievingist dam crooks in this country.

Since education is not mentioned in the constitution concerning Fed input it is a state right. The bill that set up the DOE states that "We know that is a state right " Wake up America.

Dog gone it, ...... If my ex were not in Austin I'd move to Texas. The federal government is in way, way over it's head.

I've said many times we could save millions maybe billions of $$$$ if we were to go back to the Constitution. Do away with the DOE, it's a state responsibility. Do away with the DOI. It is a states responsibility. Do away with any Fed Level agency that is not specifically called for by the Constitution. I.E. It is the responsibility of the Fed to protect the people of the USA. Therefore they should have a DOD. I have to wonder if we were able to rid ourselves of these Unconstitutional bueracracies how much would be save annually? How fast would our deficit disappear?

Way to go TEXAS. I hope more follow your lead. We need to get the marxist anti american Obama out of DC as soon as possible. Too bad the reps did not get the senate too maybe they would remove him from the white house permanently.

If you can read, you can teach someone to read, if you love to learn, you will impart that to your children. No one will ever do better by your children than you yourself! Try it, you'll actually like it and your children will too.
Taxes for eduacation would not be necessary if parents took responsibility for their own children and STAYED HOME to love them and teach them what they need to know so that they will become productive, compassionate people and citizens.

It seem those Texans are the only ones with a constitutional backbone and standing erect.

Good Start Texas! I can think of several other Federal Departments that are an absolute waste of taxpayer money and basically UNCONSTITUTIONAL!... There is no "Republic" anymore... We have to get it back, or we'll be 'France' in another few years. It amazes me how the Socialist agenda has crept up on the Republic since the end of WWII (mostly in the 60's though). It's the same tactic that Al Quida has recently, publicly endorsed... "Death to America by a thousand paper cuts". One after the other... each little "insignificant" law, rule or establishment is systematically removed, altered or replaced with a socialist one. I'm tired of thinking 'Globally' We're the United STATES of America... NOT the Union of Socialist States of America... UGH!!!!

Lady_Dr. Most "churches" are licensed by the state, thus state owned/controlled. (5013-c) They are also 'led' (sic), by weak-kneed, panty-waist clergy who won't dare say anything for fear they might offend someone, (but having no concern they might offend Yahweh/God).

The 'license' issue has long been settled in the Sup. Ct. (see Church of The New Testment v. State). NO church NEEDS a 'license' to have tax-free status because the 1st Amendment prohibits a law being passed to tax same in the first place.

The big problem is the clergy and their fear of offending someone... They are weak and simply don't care, just as We the SHEEPle don't care! We are useless against our enemies within!

Obviously We the SHEEPle are quite happy with the way things are, and we haven't seen anything yet!!!

"Widespread belief in the myth of neutrality, the idea
that God is neutral in most areas of thought and life and is only
particular about “religious” things, led many to abandon Christian
education for “public education” and to forsake the application of
all of Scripture to all areas of life. In the “public schools” Christians
first accepted a watered-down, lowest-common-denominator
Christianity which neglected the whole counsel of God revealed in
the Bible. Then they acquiesced in the gradual de-Christianization
of the textbooks. The result of these things was a Christian retreat
from Biblically-principled educational, social, and political involvement.
This in turn created a vacuum which non-Christian bodies of
thought were eager to fill."
A quote from, The Christian Life and Character, pg 12

Thus the downfall of the American system begins.

Thank you Cynthia Dunbar,for having the fortitude to stand up to the Federal gov't.The Fed's have long had a policy of, we will help you financially,but you will have to do what we say.Kind of like the godfather.Our fed's are no different than any other socialist gov't.They have just been a little kinder and gentler.But with this Obama administration the fed's are flexing their communistic muscle alot more.And they don't seem to care about our Constitution at all.It is past time that we did something about it. Thanks

No point in getting into the old chicken-or-the-egg theological & philosophical arguments on this forum. The U.S. Constitution was written by extremely intelligent educated men who had seen tyranny in action.
God or no God (or nature's God), they believed that individual conscious beings should not subject other beings to servitude, period!
Be it a tyranny of any form (government, religion, companies, banks, mobs, gangs, or any group or any individual), this is evil by any definition.

The human race will become an endangered species if we continue to allow oppression to prevail. Tyranny is caused by laziness (of the body, mind and spirit) - pure and simple - not just by the oppressor, but by the people who give that oppressor his/her/their power.
Lazy people are parasites. A tyrant is a parasite. The federal school system is a parasite. Soros is a parasite. What do we do with parasites? Destroy them before they destroy us.

Go Texas,This is what we have to do,Everyone Start telling them not asking, we don't want your B.S. any longer! To coin an old baseball cry" THROW THE BUMS OUT". Now lets get the rest of the States to follow suit!

The annual budget (think it was FY09) for the Dept of Ed. is about $49 billion. Has a federal bureaucrat in Washington EVER taught a child to read, improved their reading proficiency, helped them with math, or history, or science? The answer is a resounding NO! Why should my tax dollars (yes, I'm part of the 50% who actually pay taxes) go to support a federal bureaucracy that doesn't pay any attention to what I think when that money could go directly to local school districts to hire more/better teachers, buy more computers for schools, build better facilities, etc.? Is it not more appropriate for elected officials at the state and local level, who are accountable to voters and LOCAL taxpayers, have control over the billions of $$ rather than some political appointee in Washington of someone (the President) who I don't agree with ideologically or philosophically? Education of our children is perhaps the most important role in society and should never be left up to faceless bureaucrats in Washington. I know and have spoken with the TX state Brd of Ed. rep for my district and I feel completely comfortable that if I have an issue, I can go to him. The local school board meets less than a mile from my home and if I have an issue, I can go to a school board meeting. Conversely, could I even get in the door of the DoE in Washington?
Go TEXAS!!! I wasn't born here but got here as fast as I could!!

Yesterday I attended and offered testimony at the Texas Senate State Affairs and Health & Human Services committee now considering implementation of Obomacare here in Texas. Many of the attendees were demanding the Texas legislature nullify Obomacare.

GO TEXAS! Maybe Texas, Oklahoma and my state Arizona should leave the union and start a new country. The United States of Freedom.

From Freedom to Oppression Through Evolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKmW3k0S4U

It's time to be more aggressive with evolutionists. The students are being brain washed every day in the public schools by the high priests of evolution.

We just ran this ad.
Earn $1000 by finding an evolutionist that will defend their position. For
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A Creation Challenge to the Chickens of Evolution - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhkqJry3iBM

Yay for Texas! I think the best way to make the federal government do its Constitutional job is to have the states ignore anything that steps over the line of granted authority . The fed will fight back by withholding funding for various things and doing various other nasty acts, but if the states can withstand the federal backlash, that will be a huge step toward healing this nation. Arizona tested the waters with SB1070, and look how the fed "supported" them.

The fed is corrupt and broken, and it's filled with people who are NOT following the wise rules and guidance of our Constitution, which strictly LIMITS its powers. A quick glance at the way this nation has been governed over the last 2 years and how the party in power has passed its legislation should give you a clear idea of how far off course this nation has come.

Stop the madness, obama read our lips..NO YOU CANT !

NO country in the world allows thise abuse, except the USA! We the people must be heard by our government and we must be first in all governmet decisions, not the other way around! So, yes....Bravo TEXAS... being attached to this corrupt government is like selling your soult to the devil. The liberal judges in our system have gradually transformed thos country into an atheist country and with the communist, and yes I say communist phrase "political correctness" they have managed to shut our mouths and make us feel guilty of claiming our rights. This phrase was a SOVIET invention. They succeded oppresing the people and advancing their agenda by calling people who opposed the government "political incorrect!" This communist phrase was brought to the USA by all the communist who advanced the liberal, socialist and communist agenda in the USA, helped by the mainstream media. TEXAS, you are in the right track!

These babies MUST wait until they are 18 years old to get their American citizenship through the US Embassy in their country. Yes, they must wait and it is not PUNISHING THEM, it's clearly stated in the US immigration law. It is not punishing them. It is a deterrent to more and more immigrants com,ing to the USA thinking that all they have to do is have children in the USA (payed by the hospitals) in order to anchor their right to stay in the USA! We need to enforce our immigration laws.

We citizens are paying for it not only with our dollars, but our children receive a less than desirable education! The government turns deaf ears and eyes away from the reality and all it does is to lable us as political incorrect, biased, prejudiced and what not! I am for LEGAL IMMIGRATION. I am for CHOSING who we want to come to us. I am for go to you American Embassy in your country, fill out the paper work and WAIT like everyone is supposed to do. I am for a government that shows more respect to the legal citizens and BACK US UP and consider resolving the solution of the ILLEGAL ALIENS by sending them back and giving them an opportunity to apply legally and wait. If they anchored babies here, take them with you to your country, your baby automatically by international law has the parents citizenship regardless of wherever they were born.

BRAVO TEXAS! I HOPE THAT YOU MAY BE INDEPENDENT AND CLOSE SCHOOLS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS WHICH COSTS US HERE IN THE USA LOTS OF MONEY FOR ESOL CLASSES (for both children and adults, the latter register and don't even finish the program, TAX $$$ BEING WASTED!)
FREE LUNCH, FREE BREAKFAST, FREE BOOKS, AFTER CARE NAD WHAT NOT. Middle classs workers are being taxed to the tilt to pay for all the services that these invadors are entitled to use! OUR GOVERNMENT (not only OBAMA, but I can count as far back as Jimmie Carter) has been protecting illegals at the espense of us, American citizens. We are becoming more and more a 3rd world country and our school system is chaotic since we have to educate more with a frugal budget.

Let's be objective and think this matter through a little. How would the parents who send their children to the governement schools enjoy sending their money to the Christian or private schools to financially aid those parents? The parents who would send their children to the public school system would rise and deplore such a gesture and loudly proclaim it as "unfair."

DAMN RIGHT! GOD BLESS TEXAS! All other states should follow suit if they are smart and want the best for their children. Most federal government involvement is pathetic. Just look at the US Postal Service for example. Many more like them.

Good for Texas. The Federal Government has too long assumed control over matters that they have no business doing, by bureaucrats who have no particular expertise in any particular area that they stick their noses into. Time to cut those noses off!

Trust me Weipper, the feds won't get none of my guns. I would never threaten anybody but at the same time, I won't be threatened.

i have a grandaughter in grade 2 reads grade 5 level i am very proud of her i told her if they start on her about spanish to let me know and about muslim junk because i will have a fit they will know this nanna has been to that school she says the pledge every morning and i told her to thank GOD for her food each day because if it wasnt for GOD she would have nothing GOD BLESS AMERICA