Election Issue of Education Is Promoted

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/12/education/12educ.html

Election Issue of Education Is Promoted
By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO

ASHINGTON, Aug. 11 - A coalition of organizations, led by the nation's largest teachers union, introduced a campaign on Wednesday to mobilize opposition to the No Child Left Behind law, to demand more money for public schools and to raise the profile of education as an election issue.

Members of the coalition include the National Education Association, the teachers union, which has endorsed Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee, for president, and MoveOn.org, the 2.3 million-member Internet-based political movement that also backs Mr. Kerry. But it also includes groups like Acorn, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and the Forum on Education and Democracy, which are more oriented toward policy.

The campaign, called the National Mobilization for Great Public Schools, came under attack from Congressional Republicans, but the coalition insisted that its effort was nonpartisan and that it would not endorse any candidate or party.

Robert Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, cited opinion polls showing that Americans favor expanding pre-schools, smaller class sizes, better training and pay for teachers and strong after-school programs. <snip>

[WLKjr]

1. I would like to send them something

could you shoot me an address for that org.?

[papau]

2. Addresses below:

the National Education Association (NEA).
By phone:
Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET
[phone]
By mail:
1201 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-3290
By fax:
[phone]





ACORN® National
739 8th Street South East
Washington DC 20003
202-547-2500
fax: [phone]


http://www.moveon.org/front/

[WLKjr]

3. Thank you much

I am going to add them to the list to send a essay to.

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