Fwd: [arn2-strategy] Cal Teachers Tell Speaker Pelosi: Erase, Rewrite & Reauthorize NCLB

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

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> From: Bob Schaeffer <bobschaeffer@earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri Sep 21, 2007  10:30:12 AM US/Pacific
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> Subject: [arn2-strategy] Cal Teachers Tell Speaker Pelosi: Erase, 
> Rewrite & Reauthorize NCLB
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> TEACHERS TO PELOSI: SAY "NO" TO NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
>
> Bay City News Service -- September 20, 2007
>
> San Francisco -- Leaders of the California Teachers Association brought
> a giant postcard signed by nearly 1,000 teachers to San Francisco today
> to urge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to withdraw her support of a 
> proposed
> reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
>
> The union leaders displayed an 8-foot by 12-foot postcard outside the
> Federal Building and then took a smaller copy to the office of Pelosi,
> D-San Francisco, who was not in the office this morning.
>
> The CTA claims the proposed reauthorization's emphasis on standardized
> tests to evaluate schools isn't the best way to help students and will
> make it harder for California to attract teachers.
>
> Congressman George Miller, D-Martinez, one of the sponsors of the
> proposed reauthorization of the 2001 law, has said the planned changes
> are aimed at improving it by adding more fairness and flexibility in
> evaluation while still holding schools accountable.
>
> A spokesman for Pelosi was not immediately available for comment.
>
> Eric Heins, a fourth grade teacher at Willow Cove Elementary School in
> Pittsburg and CTA board member, said, "The excessive testing has
> practically eliminated other important programs like art, music, 
> foreign
> language and physical education."
>
> CTA Vice President Dean Vogel said, "The Miller-Pelosi NCLB
> reauthorization plan will make it harder to attract and retain quality
> teachers in California classrooms."
>
> Vogel said, "Test scores don't fairly measure student achievement and
> cannot be used to accurately evaluate and pay teachers."
>
> The union represents about 340,000 California public school teachers,
> counselors, librarians and other school staff members.
>
>
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