Re: 144 Signers

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Over the past few weeks the civil-rights community united in strong, 
clear, and overwhelming opposition to legislation that would weaken 
NCLB's accountability provisions - the same provisions that you say 
were foisted on public education by a cabal intent on destroying it.  
If you want to claim that the Joint Organizational Statement somehow 
trumps recent support for NCLB, more power to you, but the fact is that 
America's civil-rights community sees NCLB as a a civil-rights law 
worth protecting and improving.  Mindless and unprincipled opposition 
to NCLB from within public education is going to be recognized as a 
betrayal of needy parents and children and a low-point in America's 
civil rights history.  Is that really the legacy you want for yourself?

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: pwmjoy@earthlink.net <pwmjoy@earthlink.net>
To: arn-l <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 9:41 am
Subject: [arn-l] 144 Signers


As of January 25, 2005, 46 organizations had signed onto the Joint 
Statement on
NCLB including the NAACP. As of April 8, 2008, that number  climbed to 
144
signers. Any individual who uses the needs of urban black or hispanic 
youth as
proof that NCLB is a success is manipulating the generic goal of NCLB 
with which
noone disagrees and attempting to make it appear as if it is synonymous 
with the
NCLB means to achieve that goal. If that were the case, there would be 
no Joint
Statement on NCLB. For the latest list of signatories, kindly go to
http://www.fairtest.org/joint%20statement%20civil%20rights%20grps%2010-21-04.html.


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