Print
March 09, 2007
Chuck Porcari
202/879-4458
cporcari@aft.org
AFT Signs Forum on Educational Accountability’s
Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB
Washington, D.C– The American Federation of Teachers today announced it has signed, with 110 others, the Forum on Educational Accountability’s Joint Organizational Statement on the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.
The statement calls on Congress to make NCLB less punitive and more supportive of practices that improve student achievement. Its recommendations parallel many of those made by the AFT’s NCLB task force.
The statement can be found at http://www.edaccountability.org/about/statement.php. The AFT’s recommendations can be found at http://www.aft.org/topics/nclb/downloads/LGIRrecommend.pdf.
# # # #
The AFT represents 1.3 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers, paraprofessionals and other school support employees, higher education faculty, nurses and other healthcare workers, and state and local government employees.
