Charter
We will develop an open source curriculum focused on science, the natural world, space, and space exploration. This curriculum, and programs designed so that every member of our communities can contribute, will be available to any teacher in the world to download, free of charge.
We will create community programs on Native American and Native Canadian Indian reservations that will treat each reservation as a model space colony – enabling all reservation residents to participate in an international effort to understand the challenges involved in organizing, provisioning, and feeding off world colonies.
We will not place teachers or address students directly, because teachers must come from the communities in which they teach and be accredited by those communities.
Our work will be based entirely on private donations.
We will never take even a single penny from taxpayers – federal, state or local.
We flatly reject civil unrest in favor of Universal Free Education.
We are not part of government, and while we will work diligently to keep public officials informed of our progress, we will neither endorse nor malign political candidates, or seek a role in politics.
We will not produce materials about gender identity or race identity, because those topics are the responsibility of individual school districts – not The Federation.
Our long term goal will be to establish a distributed network of Federation schools (The Academy) on every large Indian reservation in the United States and Canada.
We will build on MIT’s exceptional Open Courseware program so that we may offer not only primary educational resources, but a university level curriculum as well – on the reservation so that students can stay with their culture, and their people.
Although we will start on reservations, the ultimate goal is Universal Free Education.
We won’t take kids from their communities, we’ll bring education to them.
This is a preliminary charter, to be amended as we grow.
