Re: N Orleans and NCLB

[aburke5054@aol.com]

So schools are OK even if children are behind?  Yeah, that helps kids a 
lot.  The patient got a lot better, right before he died.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 6:10 pm
Subject: [arn-l] N Orleans and NCLB

The Democratic majority whip from S Carolina, Jim Clyburn, did a
telephone interview today on NPR's News and Notes talk
program.  Here's what he said about education.  New Orleans now has a
3-tiered school system: the charters and privates, the "recovery
schools" (?), and the regular public schools.  The 3 tier system is
designed to cause the public schools to fail.  The Dems are going to
fix that problem by re-doing NCLB.

In the New Orleans Times-Picayune...

Congressional delegation gets earful on Road Home, schools





<http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/about.html>Posted by
<http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/about.html>David Hammer August
14, 2007 12:38PM


In what she saw as her last chance to collect the Road Home money to
rebuild her Lower 9th Ward home, Valeria Schexnayder corralled House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a congressional visit to the area.


"They even told us last night that they ran out of money,"
Schexnayder said, tears welling up as Pelosi hugged her and thanked
her for sharing her story. "This is my last chance. My only chance."


The local congressman, William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, told
Schexnayder, 60, that the congressional group would announce tomorrow
that Road Home "is not going to run out of money." The lawmakers are
visiting Louisiana in part to learn what needs to be done to bail out
the Road Home program, which is an estimated $5 billion short of
serving an estimated 150,000 eligible applicants.


Schexnayder, whose house floated away in Hurricane Katrina, said
she's living in a FEMA trailer "full of mold and full of
formaldehyde" and had a new stress with the Road Home when she
learned her $150,000 award would be reduced to $100,000 because there
was no more elevation grant money.


Pelosi and nine other House Democrats also toured Mary McLeod Bethune
Elementary School, seeking to learn what more Congress can do to help
local public schools.

With help from some high school students at McDonough 35, school
employees and leaders worked late over the weekend to get the
once-flooded school ready for Tuesday's first day of classes, and a
little extra clean for the distinguished guests from Washington.


"All last night we cleaned it up," said Mary Haynes Smith, principal
of the pre-K-through-6th grade accelerated school, which has 300
students. "Not for you all really _ mostly for the kids."


House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Bobby Scott,
D-Va., a member of the House Education Committee, touted changes
Democrats have proposed to the No Child Left Behind program. Scott
said his committee wants to make it easier for schools that show
improvement to comply, even if they don't bring students fully up to
national grade level standards.

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