Please take 5 minutes to help our kids!
Categories"VOTE NO!" to S. 1248. / children with epilepsy and special needs
Please forward this to your U.S. contacts. I have added a little background below the original note.
Thanks,
Chris Gupta
Dear list,
This is from a list of parents to children with epilepsy and more difficulties. You might want to consider supporting them in their strive for a better and easier life for their kids.
Cordially,
Katharina
--------------------------quote:
On Wednesday, March 24, call your Senators and say "VOTE NO!" to S. 1248.
To get the names and contact information of your Senators, go to www.senate.gov or call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
When you call, tell your senator's staff that you want your senator to vote No to S. 1248. You do not have to give reasons for opposing the bill. If you do want to give reasons, you may say S. 1248 will weaken IDEA and hurt children with disabilities. Your Senator's staff will tally the calls, so every call counts.
Please take 5 minutes to help our kids!For more background see the following:
...."literally turns the clock back 30 years, to a time when children with disabilities were excluded from our public schools and our public lives. This bill eliminates critical provisions of the current law, provisions that enable children with disabilities not only to enter our schoolhouse doors, but also to actually stay in school. What's the point of letting kids in, only to virtually guarantee that they'll be thrown right back out again? Students will soon suffer these consequences if the Senate passes its bill too," explains Sandy Alperstein, a parent and attorney from Illinois.
According to Tricia Luker, a parent and advocate for students with disabilities in Michigan, "The proposed legislation to change IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, is so damaging to students and teachers that it should not become law. Congress needs to start over next year if they really do not want to leave 6.5 million students with disabilities behind."http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/04/idea.reauth.feb25.htm
posted by Chris Gupta on Tuesday March 23 2004
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/03/23/please_take_5_minutes_to_help_our_kids.htm
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