CONGRESSWOMAN KAREN BASS & ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF EDUCATION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS RUSSLYNN ALI SPEAK ABOUT FIXING PUBLIC EDUCATION...WITH NO MONEY TO DO IT
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
Last night at the Center for the Junior Blind in Baldwin Hills, Congresswoman Karen Bass and Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali spoke about fixing public education as "the most important civil rights issue of our generation." And yet, In laying out where we stand now and the Obama administration's ambitious goals for fixing public education by 2020 Assistant Secretary Ali tried the impossible task of trying to reconcile her optimism with her equally honest assessment that there was not only no money to fix public education, but the rather extreme likelihood that there would be even less in the future.
In discussing President Obama's "waiver package" for the failed policy of No Child Left Behind