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

["Tauna Rogers" <taunar@plateautel.net>]

Some time ago I posted here, asking whether it might be possible to get a 
moratorium on sanctions. While I am glad we have been blessed with the gift 
of more time to spread the message about the destructivness of high stakes 
testing, I too would really like to see us press for a freeze on sanctions. 
It is completely justified to do so and might help keep a spotlight on the 
absurdities and injustices now occurring under the present accountability 
provisions of the law.

Tauna Rogers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Bernstein" <kber@earthlink.net>
To: <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Report: No Senate Action on NCLB Reauthorization in 
2007


> 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
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