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You may be aware that there is a new federal law which will have a great impact on you, the "No Child Left Behind" act, which is also the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. TEA and NEA are working hard on behalf of students, teachers, paraprofessionals, and schools to change NCLB/ESEA to make it a better law, to inform members about its provisions, and to influence state decisions about it. Members who have questions and concerns about ESEA/NCLB should contact a member of the TEA NCLB/ESEA Work Group with their specific questions about:
For more information, please visit the Tennessee State Department of Education's Web site or NEA's Web site.
Union Influence on NCLB
Join us Thursday, April 19, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern time, for a live Web chat on how the nation's top two teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, are trying to influence the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Guests:
Joel Packer, chief NCLB lobbyist for the National Education Association; and
Antonia Cortese, the executive vice president for the American Federation of Teachers.
Transcript available at:
http://www.edweek.org/chat/transcript_04_19_2007.html
New ESEA Bills
Joint Statement on NCLB
NCLB/ESEA Action Guide: NEA's Education Policy And Practice just created this important tool for promoting NEA's proposals for overhauling NCLB through reauthorization. The Action Guide includes one pagers on key issues, facts and statistics to bolster your arguments, charts on funding gaps, suggestions on what you and your local can do to support NEA's campaign, and resolutions for a school board and state legislature.
