PFRW is pleased to announce their Fall conference keynote speaker, Mrs. Peg Luksik. Peg’s topic is ”Common Core: What Does It Mean to My Family?”

We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker, Mrs. Peg Luksik. Peg’s topic is ”Common Core: What Does It Mean to My Family?”

Peg is the Founder and Chairman of Founded On Truth, an organization dedicated to rebuilding our culture upon the principles that founded America. She has a long record of helping parents and citizens of the Commonwealth. Peg sat on the founding Boards of the Pennsylvania Family Institute and the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference, founded an alternative-to-abortion service organization called Mom’s House, worked as an advisor to President Reagan’s Commission on the Family, and created the National Parents Commission to fight for parental rights in education. She led fight against OBE (Outcome Based Education) in the 90s and now brings her dedication to the fight against Common Core State Standards.

Peg will speak at 12:30 p.m. Morning workshops include “The Vital Role of Women in Civil War Communications” presented by Heather Hibbs, Civil War enthusiast and owner of Treadle Treasures which produces authentic Civil War era clothing; and, Carolyn Conner who will discuss “Energizing Your Ground Game with Social Media”

For more information about the conference go to – http://ncpfrwconf.wordpress.com/

Register for the PFRW Fall Conference

Have you made your reservations for the PA Federation of Republican Women’s Fall Conference on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at the Shade Mountain Winery? Click here to download a registration form – http://ncpfrwconf.wordpress.com/registration-form/

If you will needing hotel reservations, please make your reservations early. Susquehanna University is celebrating homecoming the same weekend as our conference. Lodging information can be found on the North Central PFRW Conference website – http://ncpfrwconf.wordpress.com/lodging/

Press Release – PFRW host conference, keynote speaker “How Common Core Affects Our Families

West Milton, PA – SUN Area Council of Republican Women together with other area
councils will host the North-Central Regional Pennsylvania Federation of Republican
Women Fall Conference Saturday October 19 at Shade Mountain Winery, Middleburg PA.
The theme is “Harvesting Republican Principles for Our Children’s Future.”
Keynote speaker, Peg Luksik, chairman of Founded On Truth will speak on” How
Common Core Will Affect Our Families”. . . to the read the entire press release Press Release for 2013 NCPFRWConference

Save the date! October 19, 2013

PFRW is sponsoring a North Central Fall Conference at the Shade Mountain Winery, In Middleburg, PA on Saturday, October 19th, 2013. Come out for a fun filled day. Morning speakers to include: Heather Hibbs from Treadle Treasurers will talk about how women communicated during civil war and Carolyn Conner from Big Table Strategies will discuss how communication with social media is vital today. The keynote afternoon speaker will be Peg Luksik, chairman of Founded On Truth. She will speak on How Common Core Will Affect Our Families.

The day begins with a light breakfast from 8:30 am—9:00 am. The program begins at 9:00 am and will conclude at 2:00 pm. Thank you to Shade Mountain Winery for providing a tour of the winery following the conference for those interested. The cost of the day is $35.00 and includes lunch.

For more information about the conference or to print a reservation form, go to http://ncpfrwconf.wordpress.com/

Just as behind every good man is a good woman; behind every good woman is a good man. Men are welcome to attend this conference also. Common Core affects all Americans regardless of gender.

National Federation of Republican Women’s resolution on Common Core Standands

NFRW Common Core Resolution

Education (Common Core) is part of Agenda 21 – A Report on the United Nations Plan

COMMON CORE STANDARDS

This summary includes the resolution passed by NFRWat the Kansas City Convention in 2011. It is included because the first area in Agenda 21 is Education. The Common Core Standards is another example of unrecognized polic

ies in all areas of life.

NFRW recognizes this and encourages local clubs and states to be informed.

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF REPUBLICAN WOMEN RESOLUTIONDefeat National Standards for State SchoolsPassed Unanimously at the NFRW 36thBiennial ConventionKansas City, MO – October 1, 2011. Passed Unanimously at the Alabama GOPState Executive Committee Meeting Birmingham, AL – February 25, 2012

WHEREAS,The national standards-based “Common CoreState Standards” initiative is the centerpiece of the Obama Administration’s agenda to

centralize education decision at the federal level;

WHEREAS,The Obama Administration is using the same model to take over education as it used for healthcare by using national standards and boards of bureaucrats, whom the public didn’t elect and can’t fire or otherwise hold accountable;

WHEREAS, National standards remove authority from States over what is taught in the classroom and how it is tested;

WHEREAS,National standards undercut the principle of federalism on which our nation was founded;

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How does Common Core affect me and my family?

So much is all around us regarding Common Core. Sometimes the media has it written that we just don’t understand how will it affect me? The Mom? The Dad? The student? The taxpayer? The Grandparent?

SUNACRW is hosting a conference for PFRW (and we also welcome men) on Saturday, October 19, 2013. Peg Ludsik will be our afternoon speaker, “Common Core, how does it affect me and my family?”

For more information, or to make your reservations – http://ncpfrwconf.wordpress.com/

SUN Area Council of Republican Women Formally Opposes Common Core Standards

Resolution on Common Core State Standards and Assessments

WHEREAS, The Common Core State Standards Initiative (“Common Core”), and its Pennsylvania implementation now known as Pennsylvania Academic Standards, are a set of academic standards, promoted and supported by two private organizations, the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a method for conforming American students to uniform (“one size fits all”) achievement goals to make them more competitive in a global marketplace; and,

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Sufferage – Women and the GOP

Women and the GOP
Suffrage

The Republican Party pioneered the right of women to vote and was consistent in its support throughout the long campaign for acceptance. It was the first major party to advocate equal rights for women and the principle of equal pay for equal work. The Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848 marked the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Two years later there was a nationwide meeting in Worcester, Mass. By 1870, the Massachusetts Republican State Convention had already seated two suffragettes, Lucy Stone and Mary A. Livermore, as delegates. In addition, the National Republican Convention of 1872 approved a resolution favoring the admission of women to “wider fields of usefulness” and added that “the honest demand of this class of citizens for additional rights … should be treated with respectful consideration.”

Wyoming, the state that pioneered women’s suffrage, sent two women, Therese A. Jenkins and Cora G. Carleton, to the 1892 Republican Convention in Minneapolis as alternate delegates. This was the first time women were seated at a Republican National Convention.

This convention was also the first to be addressed by a woman, J. Ellen Foster, chairman of the Women’s Republican Association of the United States. A strong believer in organization, Foster said her association had prepared work plans for women’s involvement in national politics. Copies were given to each delegate and alternate. “We are here to help you,” she declared, “and we are here to stay.”

At the request of Susan B. Anthony, Sen. A.A. Sargent, a Republican from California, introduced the 19th Amendment in 1878. Sargent’s amendment (also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment) was defeated four times by a Democrat-controlled Senate. When the Republican Party regained control of Congress in 1919, the Equal Suffrage Amendment finally passed the House in May of that year and in the Senate in June.

When the Amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were Democratic. Twelve states, all Republican, had given women full suffrage before the federal amendment was ratified.

On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the amendment. The U.S. Secretary of State certified the amendment on Aug. 26, 1920.

Source: Office of the Co-Chairman, The Republican National Committee

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