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Previous weeks' headlines of The Latest for this month's issue are located below:
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Week of Monday April 15, 2002 |
 Assembly Education Committee Passes AB 2236
 AB 2236, sponsored by Assembly Member Judy Chu, passed the Assembly Education Committee with a 9 - 0 vote.
Lynwood parent activist, Mary Johnson, Woodworth Elementary Kindergarten teacher Cicely Morris, Santa Monica High teacher Tony Collatos, and IDEA's John Rogers testified before the Assembly Education Committee legislators in Sacramento for AB 2236 on April 3, 2002. Johnson, Morris, and Rogers pose in front of the capitol.
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Week of Monday April 8, 2002
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 "I find myself increasingly concerned that a kind of triage mentality has settled over schools, a vise of constraint that has led to a bottom dollar hunt for top students. Triage is a theory that makes a certain sense in extremely dire settings where such a cruel cost-benefit analysis has the remote moral justification of salvage-under-fire. That educational opportunity should at all resemble such a configuration in this, the wealthiest and most technologically developed country on the planet, speaks of a deep and troubling class divide."
- Patricia J. Williams, "Contractions," The Nation, April 8, 2002
Do You Support a Students' Bill of Rights?
Assembly Bill 2236, sponsored by Assemblymember Judy Chu, will provide all students with high quality educational opportunities and develop and support a statewide system of schools that insures the basic materials and conditions for learning. This bill is pending in the California legislature and needs your support. If you choose to support this bill, you can download this sample letter and send or fax it to:
Assemblymember Judy Chu
State Capitol Room 5126
Sacramento, CA 95814
fax: 916-319-2149
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