Press Call Thursday: Civil Rights Advocates to Oppose Senate’s Education Rollback for Vulnerable Students

Media 07.15.15

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, July 16 at 11:00 AM ET, civil rights advocates will call on the Senate to oppose the education bill, the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA). The Senate is expected to vote on final passage of the ECAA later in the day. 

Civil rights, women’s rights, disability rights, and education advocacy organizations are opposing this reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act because it throws students of color, students with disabilities, English learners and low-income students under the bus.  It allows schools and districts to take federal funds and yet freely ignore the needs of vulnerable students and doesn’t require any interventions to narrow massive and stubborn disparities in achievement and opportunity.

RSVP requested to [email protected]

WHEN: Thursday, July 16 at 11:00 AM ET

WHO:

  • Nancy Zirkin, executive vice president of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • Susan Henderson, executive director of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
  • Leslie Proll, director of the Washington D.C. office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
  • Tanya Clay House, director of public policy at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law

DIAL-IN INFORMATION: Please RSVP to [email protected]. Dial-in: 866.952.7535 Verbal Passcode: “Education”

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