Today's Yopp! is fairly easy. Call your Senators about their vote on the Wilbur Ross confirmation that had bipartisan support yesterday and call on your Representative to oppose HR 610.
SENATE CTA - Wilbur Ross Confirmation
Step 1: Check here to see how your senator voted on the confirmation of billionaire and Russian crony Wilbur Ross.
If your senator voted Nay, then email or call and say:
I saw that Senator ___________ voted against the confirmation of Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary. Please thank the senator for me. I'm glad that she/he is taking a stand against corporate cronyism and cabinet ties to Russia.
If your senator voted Yea, then call and say:
I am concerned that Senator ___________ voted to confirm Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary. His ties to banking and to Russia are of great concern to me and should be to the senator as well. When will the senator be making a statement regarding this vote?
HOUSE CTA - Vote NO on HR 610
This one has been making the rounds. The gist of it is that you need to call your representative in the House and ask them to vote NO on HR 610.
Parents with kids in public schools, teachers, and anyone else who believes in school equality, healthy lunches and the public school system will want to read this new bill. The destruction of our public schools has officially begun:
HR 610 INTRODUCED TO ELIMINATE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS ACT.
Please call your US House Representative - and those in other states where you have any sort of connection (have lived there, admire their public education, have family members there with kids in public schools) - now, and ask them to vote NO on House Bill 610. HR 610 was introduced in the Education & Workforce Committee by three Republican House Reps: Lead is Andy Harris-MD (202) 225-5311, with Franks-AZ (202) 225-4576 and Olson-TX (202) 225-5951.
This bill will effectively start the nationwide school voucher system to be used by children ages 5-17, and start the defunding process of public schools, in hand with eliminating all student rights and programs that address poverty, etc. Please read on.
The bill will eliminate the Elementary and Education Act of 1965, which is the nation's educational law and provides equal opportunity in education. ESSA is a large comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, AP classes, ESL programs, programs for students of color including Native Americans, as well as Rural Education, Education for Students who are Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance and Federal Accountability for these and other Programs. The House 610 Bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards and funding to states for in-school breakfast and lunch.
Some things ESSA does for Children with Disabilities:
- Ensures access to the general education curriculum
- Ensures access to needed accommodations (e.g. larger print, additional time) on assessments
- Ensures use of principles of "Universal Design for Learning" in materials and instruction so that all have curriculum access and ability to learn
- Includes provisions that require school districts to use research-based instruction and curriculum in schools, especially with students who represent groups that have been consistently “underperforming" or underachieving.
- ESSA also requires that states write Title I (ESSA granted federal funds to assist students and schools in poverty) plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including: reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, reducing overuse of punitive discipline practices and reducing the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).
All of this goes away if ESSA does. We can safely say that IDEA will be next.Yours in Solidarity!
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