IN THE MAILBOX
Letter from the National Council of Churches to the President and Congress
I write today to share a pastoral letter adopted on May 18 by the 69 member Governing Board of the National Council of Churches, and sent yesterday to the President and Congress.
The National Council of Churches is a community of 36 Christian communions with a combined membership of 45 million persons in more than 100,000 congregations across the U.S. The members of the NCC’s Governing Board are listed at the end of the letter.
The pastoral letter speaks particularly to issues in Race to the Top:
- the role of public education, “publicly funded, universally available, and accountable to the public”;