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Action Required
Full-Day Kindergarten Bill
Passes Out to
Committee
AB 157 - the full-day Kindergarten bill - passed
out of the Assembly Education Committee Monday and is now headed to the
Assembly Ways & Means Committee to see if the state can pay for the
program. The NSEA Lobby Team urges all members to contact the
members of the Assembly
Ways & Means Committee and urge them to fund full-day
Kindergarten.
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Urge Lawmakers to Pass AB 280
Please contact
the members of the Assembly
Ways & Means Committee and urge them to fund AB 280 - this bill would
provide $30 million for incentives to be bargained at the local
level. For more information on NSEA's position, visit the Legislative Action Center.
NEA Testifies Before Lawmakers
Instrumental in NCLB Reauthorization
NEA President Weaver recommends
critical changes at rare joint Congressional hearing
If you want to
know the chilling effects the No Child Left Behind Act has had on America's
classrooms and schools, ask a teacher. Congressional leaders who
will shape reauthorization of the law did just that as NEA President Reg
Weaver testified during a rare joint hearing by the House and Senate
education committees. Weaver, leader of the nation's largest
organization of public school educators, represented the Association's
3.2 million members who have experienced the law firsthand.
Full story: http://www.nea.org/newsreleases/2007/nr070313.html
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