NCLB Legislation

Reprinted from the AASLBlog - June 2007
Filed under: AASL Community
For the past two years the ALA Washington Office has been working hard to get school librarians into the No Child Left Behind legislation. At ALA Midwinter in 2005, Council passed a resolution directing them to work toward this! This hard work has been successful!!!!
On Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at Library Day on the Hill during the ALA conference here in DC, Senator Jack Reed will introduce his bill, cosigned by Senator Cochran, from Mississippi. There will also be a press conference at 12:00 noon on the House side of South Capital Street between C and D at the blue bookmobile. If you are in the area, regardless of the type of library, please attend and support school librarians everywhere!
Once the bill has been assigned a number -- both in the Senate and House, I will post them along with easy directions to contact your Senators and Congressmen to let them know you support the bill, to include school librarians in the highly category.
Support of this bill to get it passed and have school librarians in the highly qualified category in the reauthorization of NCLB will go a long way to helping save our positions and more important -- our profession!
There is also a resolution coming before Council on Wednesday, crafted by AASL Executive Committee member Dee Gwaltney to have ALA on record supporting this bill, which wil be sent to Congress.
And a note to all of those who say -- in print or in private -- that ALA does nothing for us (school librarians) and they should be doing something to save our jobs -- well they are, and now is your chance to thank them and get out the support to let Congress know we support this bill.
posted by J. Linda Williams
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