Parents, Teachers, and Civil Rights Advocates Come to Washington for ESEA Conference Committee

Media 11.17.15

WASHINGTON –– Tomorrow in Washington, D.C., parents and teachers will join education and civil rights advocates from across the country to urge their members of Congress to improve the proposed reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Organized by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, lobby day participants include civil rights and disability advocates, teachers, and parents who want to improve the ESEA proposal being discussed by members of the conference committee.

The constituents have coalesced around four necessary fixes to the ESEA proposals: strengthening accountability for schools and districts to educate all groups of students, including students of color, students with disabilities, low-income students, and English learners; improved data collection; mandates for states to close disparities in resources for high-poverty schools; and sufficient oversight from the U.S. Department of Education.

Participants include:

Colorado  

·         Voletha Genes Bradley, Urban League of Metro Denver

·         Katherine Burgess, AAUW – Durango

·         Jose Alanis, LULAC

Florida     

·         John E. Clark, America Achieves

Georgia    

·         Helen Butler, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda

·         Eric Stele Parker, America Achieves

·         Deborah H. Karvey, AAUW of Georgia

Illinois      

·         Jasmine Bankhead, O’Keeffe School of Excellence

·         Maggie Rivera, LULAC

·         Trish Davlantes, TeachPlus

Indiana     

·         Chelsea Easter-Rose, TeachPlus

·         Melissa Scherle, TeachPlus

·         Lameca T Perkins, TeachPlus

Ohio         

·         Christine Siebeneck, AAUW Ohio

·         Josue Ordaz Vicente, Ohio Hispanic Coalition

Pennsylvania        

·         Joan Duvall-Flynn, Pennsylvania NAACP

Tennessee 

·         Jacqueline Paul Sims, Tennessee State Conference NAACP

·         Mauricio Calvo, Latino Memphis

·         Michael Jerome Collins, Jr, New Leaders

Wisconsin 

·         Darryl Dean Morin, LULAC

·         Aldira Aldape, National Council of La Raza

·         Mary Braun Modder, AAUW of Wisconsin

 

To talk with participants in the lobby day, please contact Scott Simpson at (202) 466-2061 or [email protected]

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the rights of all persons in the United States. The Leadership Conference works toward an America as good as its ideals. For more information on The Leadership Conference, visit www.civilrights.org

 

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