Re: union speak-outs

["Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org>]

Other union locals should conduct speakouts or forums. As Susan suggests, 
school boards could be involved (as has happened around state testing in 
some communites in MA) - co-sponsoring events with teachers (and other 
groups, such as religious and civil rights) or holding their own. The goals 
are to educate around the consequences of NCLB and build support for actions 
leading to overhauling federal law - a quite different ESEA in various 
critical regards, including testing and the accountability structure.

Monty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Harman" <susanharman@igc.org>
To: "CA Resisters" <ca-resisters@interversity.org>; 
<LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com>; "ARN state" <ARN-state@egroups.com>; 
<arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 8:20 PM
Subject: [arn2-strategy] union speak-outs


Heres what the union is doing in NYC. The UFT is a member of the AFT, which 
is way more conservative than NEA. This is a great precedent.
Lets ask each of our locals to hold speak-outs. Then lets ask our local 
school boards to hold some.
Susan


> UFT’S NEXT STEPS TO EXAMINE TESTING/ASSESSMENT ISSUES:
> The UFT is scheduling speak-outs in each borough to give members the
> opportunity to express how the current NYC interim testing policies
> and NYS Regents exams are impacting on their classrooms.
>
> We must make sure that we have teachers and parents at each of these
> UFT borough events to speak out about the problems with NYC and state
> standardized assessments. These meetings offer Consortium members an
> opportunity to describe far more effective alternatives to the state
> testing
> that is being imposed on students and teachers.




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