Re: Report: No Senate Action on NCLB Reauthorization in 2007

[Kenneth Bernstein <kber@earthlink.net>]

I can only post this to the ARN-L list, as I am not a member of the other lists to which Bob sent his message.


This raises an urgent issue.  This almost certainly means that the Education Dept will be funded under a continuing resolution.  I presume that without some kind of intervention, the funding level for NCLB related activities will continue at the current insufficient level at the same time as the clock continues to move on sanctions.    Is there any way we can pressure people, especially on the Senate side, to try to intervene to freeze the clock on punitive sanctions until reauthorization and funding issues get fully addressed? Otherwise the damage of the past few years will merely be intensified to a point where recovery will, for many schools, be nigh impossible.


I have forwarded a message to that effect to those Hill staffers and Members with whom I have ongoing contact.  But I am wondering if we need some kind of more concerted effort?

teacherken  aka ken bernstein

Kenneth J. Bernstein