Group that scuttled pre-K initiatives has close Bachmann ties

Group that scuttled pre-K initiatives has close Bachmann ties

In 1998, two years before she first ran for a seat in the Minnesota Senate, Michele Bachmann was a virtual unknown, an education activist on a mission to get rid of a set of then-new state graduation requirements known as the Profiles of Learning.

Bachmann opposed the requirements because of their content, but also for more general reasons. She feared that the policy’s implementation, coupled with a state program promoting work-force preparedness, would turn Minnesota’s schoolchildren into automatons and serve as the first slippery step toward federal control over local schools.

Note: Bachmann hasn't had an independent thought since Kindergarten.