House Bill 610 (RE: Public Education)

The Betsy De Vos/GOP education agenda takes root:

House Bill 610 makes some large changes. Inform yourselves.
This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5-17, and starts the defunding process of public schools.
In addition the bill will eliminate the Elementary and Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), which is the nation's educational law and provides equal opportunity in education. ESEA is a comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, AP classes, ESL classes, classes for minorities such as Native Americans, Rural Education, Education for the Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance and Federal Accountability Programs. The bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards in school breakfast and lunch. The bill has no wording whatsoever protecting special needs kids, no mention of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act) or the right to free and appropriate public education. Some things ESEA does for Children with Disabilities
-Ensures access to the general education curriculum.
-Ensures access to accommodations on assessments.
-Ensures concepts of Universal Design for Learning
-Includes provisions that require local education agencies to provide evidence-based
interventions in schools with consistently underperforming subgroups.
-Requires states in Title I plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, overuse of discipline practices and reduce the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).
Please call your representative and ask him/her to vote NO on House Bill 610

Message edited 2/26/2017 7:32:57 PM.

House Bill 610 (RE: Public Education)

For Suffolk this would be Zeldin and King, correct?

Re: House Bill 610 (RE: Public Education)

Re: House Bill 610 (RE: Public Education)

House Bill 610 (RE: Public Education)

I will be calling zeldin's office on this today.

Edited to take out the other info bc apparently zeldin is not on that committee. I did her through to zeldin's DC office about the education bill though.

Message edited 2/27/2017 2:56:34 PM.