Fwd: Posting Bill of Rights

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

Begin forwarded message:

  From: Harold Berlak <hberlak@yahoo.com>

  Date: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:39:18 PM US/Pacific

  To: Susan Harman <Susanharman@igc.org>, Marilyn Langlois
  <langlois-rine@comcast.net>, pjhallam@berkeley.edu, Peter Farruggio
  <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>

  Subject: Posting Bill of Rights

  I posted the following on ca-resisters listserv but it did not appear .  Is
  there something I can do to locate the problem?  Perhaps someone will post
  for me 

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  I revised and edited the Bill of Rights for test takers based on  very useful
  feedback and suggestions from several sources.  While the changes are few,
  they are clarifying and important. Deborah Meier among others have indicated
  strong support for the statement. She is also among those who provided
  feedback. 

   If you want a copy you can email me. ( Subject; Bill of Rights)  

  Please circulate and post  the document preferably without attribution
  because it is important in my view that the focus be in on the Bill of Rights
  and not the individuals or organizations that were responsible for writing
  the initial draft. 

  We need to keep in mind that this remains  a work in progress,  a long way
  from being translated into legislation.  Whatever happens to the NCLB
  reauthorization, (and I don't expect very much) we need to press forward to
  get a version of these protections enacted. We need to hold  our public
  officials  accountable for their continuing support of laws , federal and
  state, that are undermining public education and inflicting  grievous harm on
  a generation of  children and  on the teachers who teach them. 

  There is nothing in the proposed remedies  that's radical  nor unprecedented 
  --unless one  views the protection of  civil rights , due process, and equal
  protection of the law as radical.  

  Susan Ohanian just informed me that the revised v1.3 version can be found on
  her web site.   I've also suggested  that CalCARE  add it to  their site.

  NOTE;  The up-to-date version is v1.4 and is so marked.  

  Harold