Re: [eddra] [ HuffingtonPost.com ] Recommendation: The Zero Percent Ch ance of 100 Percent Success

["dwilmer@netzero.net" <dwilmer@netzero.net>]

"...And what ways of phrasing this issue will they hear and 
understand, positively react to. The more such folks we win over, the 
easier it is to win the battle over whether NCLB is or is not 
a "civil rights" law.
 
Monty Neill
FairTest"


I'm not sure if this is way out in left field, but how about focusing 
their attention on the "funding gap." It was my impression that ESEA 
was initially passed in order to help poor/minority schools out 
financially, and I even recall reading that desegregating schools was 
a requirement for receiving Title I funds. Perhaps an amendment to 
NCLB could require states to develop funding schemes that, at the 
very least, equalize funding between rich and poor districts, and at 
best weight funding so that poor districts get proportionally more 
money to meet the higher needs of poor children.

Certainly civil rights advocates can get behind that.