Reauthorization of NCLB and the SKILLs Act

I have reprinted the previous four posts from the AASL Blog just to remind all of you that we have been keeping you informed of the SKILLs Act helping us to get our wording in any reauthorization of NCLB. ALA and the Washington Office have been working on our behalf and we need to let them know we appreciate their efforts and show our support by letting our Senators and Representatives know the importance of school library media professionals and the positive effect they make on student achievement. In any rewrite of the NCLB -- we need to be included in any highly qualified category.

The House released its first draft of Title I for the NCLB reauthorization`last week and other Titles will be released shortly. Our language is not in the base bill in the House. The Washigton Office will continue to push for the language we want to be added as an amendment. They are working to find a sponsor for the amendment on the Education and Labor Committee. When they do have a sponsor in the House identified, there will be a different message. They will then ask for people to contact their Representative if they are on the Committee to support the amendment.

For now for the SKILLs Act we are staying with the same message. Contact your Representative and Senators and ask them to sign on as a co-sponsor the SKILLs Act. We always knew that the SKILLs Act would not pass as a stand alone bill. It was always meant to be included in NCLB. Having as many co-sponsors as we can get makes it easier for the amendment to move.
Please join in and help us get this legislation accomplished!!!