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2016 Update (I will use this background-color for this post to indicate):

RE: OCSE: Child Support Enforcement/Federal Grants to States: Let’s Look at the “TAGGS” HHS Charts (CFDAs 93.563 & 93.564) Originally published July 26, 2011, and at 25,000+ words

This blog excerpts most of the DIALOGUE from an older post, leaving the charts, breaking it into pieces so as to format the post with the real payload — the charts.

I don’t expect this all to sink in with one reading or exposure to the information.  I will be repeating the general concepts in following posts, “the Lord willing”…. meaning, as I can get to it.  As sometimes happens when new or “cosmic” information or level of awareness starts to sink in, it grips my attention and I do have trouble getting a post out in one post… as opposed to one, long, linear, and systematic (covering each and every organization referenced) post

Tags on this blog — there are more tags than covered in this post; I took an EXTENDED 2016 update to a separate post and will duplicate the list of tags.  This happened when I looked closer at a set of grants in Alabama hooking up with “Prevent Child Abuse America” and started, well, “taking names and posting tax returns.”

I discovered not just the defunct (but still advertising) nonprofit cited at the state level (“VOICES for Children in Alabama”), and the system of funding of multiple similar-but-not-identical “Children’s Trust” “Children First” and other things “Children” — and the pushing of more PreK education.

The Pre-K education pushing led to the authority for doing this, called “NIEER” which being “National Institute for Early Education Research:  a Unit of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey” and with this, direct connections to the UNC (University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill) based, and now 50 years old as of 2016, “Frank Porter Institute for Child Development.”

So far, that was “only” a New Jersey and North Carolina University weighing in on what should be done with public funding under CAPTA (to prevent child abuse), Tobacco Settlements (federal), and a state level board for preventing child abuse and neglect in ALABAMA.

But then a closer look at a letter posted on “NIEER (which, again, was used to validate the programming being run on Alabama’s poor, at-risk, abused, etc. children who were not showing up “Ready” for state-sponsored kindergarten) showed connections to NEW YORK University School of Education(the oldest school of pedagogy in the US; it was “experimental education” then and is ‘holistic education” now under the new, improved (and referencing a 2001 $10M benefactor) “Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development”

http://Children.ALABAMA.Gov/first-class-pre-k-grants/ references the NIEER:

First Class Pre-K Grants

About the First Class Pre-K Process

The First Class Pre-K Program is Aabama’s state funded pre-K program for 4 year old children who are residents of the State of Alabama. The program is funded by the Education Trust Fund through the Alabama Department of Children’s Affairs Office of School Readiness. In order to receive funds for  a First Class Pre-K Classroom, organizations must first complete an online application.

First Class Pre-K has been recognized by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) as meeting 10 of 10 criteria for the highest quality Pre-K programs. Funding for First Class Pre-K is to (1) provide access for more children to attend high quality pre-K and (2) enhance quality of existing classrooms by providing funding and support to meet the high quality standards. All state funded classrooms receive coaching from specialized coaches to support classroom instruction and Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP). Additionally, DCA monitors to ensure grant compliance and a high level of accountability for the grant funds

Note:  Children.Alabama.gov doesn’t provide a courtesy link to NIEER, mention that it’s based at Rutgers (and probably not a 501©3) or who decided that this NJ group should be evaluating programs for Alabama.  Who, if anyone, is monitoring whether there might be some conflict-of-interest relationships between coaches & curriculum providers and the evaluators?  Yet State funds TO Alabama fund the programming.

Let me show this with a link to the “NIEER” letter, the statement of whose publication the letter was based on, and an (amazing, actually**) few resumes, wealthy, PRIVATE  foundations, and sponsored (by those foundations and of course federal agencies such as the US/DHHS and/or the US/DOE) university centers, not to mention a set of global connections which shed an entirely different light on why there is such ongoing interest in compiling social science data on “low-income” American families and why the pre-school school should be extended, and the pre-school year become year-round..

Apparently, there’s an intent to know what also works overseas in low-income families on other continents, and JUST HOW MUCH can we standardize, streamline, coordinate, and efficiently replicate “what works” overseas too. Also, how long can all the American public be persuaded that their taxes should not just be to save all the children HERE (which, FYI, isn’t happening) but also globally.  And, apparently our “overseers” (Congress who appropriates, and federal agencies who distribute, particularly HHS) have already chosen their champion proselytizers with stellar academics (mostly in psychology, still !!) and PhD-published coming out the ears.  In journals put out in corporation with universities alone, or (one example below) University (Princeton) + Famous Nonprofit (Brookings).

Regardless of what you may think about the programming, it’s time to look at the sponsoring foundations, the lingo, and why not, some of the people involved?  HOW are they doing this, WHAT (in other terms than the profession/practitioner-specific jargon) is actually taking place here, and based on a  closer look at that, WTF is the endgame?

Is there, or is there not, any genuine intention that the current generation of “low-income children” young, or youthful, actually stop being “low-income” and make it into another social class in ANY method other than a chosen few of them becoming mentored scholars (it comes up below) of the same scheme (or “schematic” if you wish) for another generation?

I wonder how the sponsored professors with named chairs at public/private-sponsored center (and their networked colleagues and philanthropists) would feel if forced to become subject matter of collected (and published) studies by low-income ADULTS (especially PARENTS) proposing that instead of redistributing OUR taxable wage revenues to these places, it’s time to flip the table sand redistribute some of the research grants, endowed professorships, and put a “chill” on how many tax-exempt entities any one family may start, sit on the board of, or otherwise control.   (That statement may make more sense after you look at some of the numbers involved in these networks, and start counting just how many foundations are in on it….)
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