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Time for a strong message on ESEA

by pureparents

There are a lot of petitions and sign-ons these days. Do they do any good?

This one, called the Declaration to Rebuild America, gets at most of PAA’s priority issues and includes a good mix of people and organizations as early endorsers. It may be an indication that the message of true education progressives is becoming clearer and more unified.

The full Declaration is too long to reproduce here, but its main aspects are very similar to PAA’s statement of beliefs.

A strong, unified message from public school advocates is especially critical now that Congress has gone back to work on reauthorizing (revising) what used to be called the No Child Left Behind Act, now the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA.

Here’s a summary of an ESEA proposal released earlier this week by the Democratic Senate education committee chair Tom Harkin. There’s also a good analysis of the proposal from Ed Week’s Alyson Klein, a

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