Re: NAACP Law Suit and NCLB

["Peter Majoy" <pwmjoy@earthlink.net>]

Please tell me where I can get a copy of the brief that you have patiently alluded to more than once. If, indeed, such is stated, then clearly there is a glowing contradiction between that brief  and  the two documents to which I have referred. Perhaps, your oft referenced "enforce the letter and the spirit" is somehow the exact meaning of the two quotes from the Hartford NAACP document : (1) "For certain procedural reasons the NAACP is put on the same side as the United States in the case, but that does not mean the two agree on everything in NCLB." (2) Referring to the the civil rights lawyers representing them, the document states that "The participation of these organizations is not intended as a blanket endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act."  Please note the underlined phrases. To these phrases add the substantial changes in NCLB called for by the "Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind (NCLB)" co-sponsored by the NAACP
Legal Defense Fund. Sure "spirit" of the law is one thing, a no brainer, while "letter" of the law is evidently not supported by these references. It would be a good exercise for you to deal with these references given your obsessive dependence on the phrase from the brief which you cite.


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In a message dated 11/11/2006 4:23:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, pwmjoy@earthlink.net writes:
The  Connecticut NAACP intervened on the side of the federal government  in the Ct. Attorney General's suit against NCLB as an unfunded mandate. One member of this list always circles back to the assertion that  the Ct. NAACP intervention calls for the implementation of the  "spirit and letter" of NCLB. ...In summary, the Ct. NAACP "Fact Sheet on Connecticut  v. Spellings" and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's "Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind (NCLB)", cannot be used to support implementation of both the "spirit and letter" of NCLB
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One of the briefs submitted by the NAACP to the federal court hearing the Connecticut case argues that states should enforce the "letter and spriit" of NCLB.  The phrase "enforce the letter and spirit" are in the brief.  I explained this before and more than once.

Art    



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