There are conflicting views on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) bill that authorizes public education. This bill was passed with the support of President George W. Bush and Senator Edward Kennedy in 2001 with a view toward improving public education by 2014, including in our least well-funded schools in very poor communities. No Child Left Behind Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 31st, 2012 at 2:00 – 3:15 pm ET
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The Coalition on Human Needs, the Half in Ten Campaign, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Children’s Leadership Council have partnered to provide a valuable resource to our local partners, members, and allies about what not-for-profit organizations (501C3’s) can do during election years.
The National Opportunity to Learn Campaign, headquartered in Boston, is sponsored by the Schott Family Foundation. This is an important effort to attract community agencies to coordinate efforts to change the learning experience of children who live in poverty and/or who experience ongoing acute crises.
The byword - achievement gap - has come to imply that failure to learn is the fault of a student, a teacher or a principal, or all of these. Opportunity to Learn implies that the community and the federal government have responsibilities to our children. If we could only minimize testing and maximize the opportunities for our children to have adequate food, health care, and teachers trained to listen as well as teach our children who live in poverty, we would turn around education in our country today.
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