Formal Testimony and Comment 2010

Letter Urging Amendments to Keep Our Educators Working Act

Date: 
May 13 2010

Read the letter from Ed Trust and other reform advocates urging Congress to ensure the act's funds are used only to save educators' jobs, not pad states' rainy-day funds. 

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application/pdf iconAmend the Keep Our Educators Working Act.pdf

Read Why Congress Should Amend the Keep Our Educators Working Act

Date: 
May 13 2010

Six Reasons the Keep Our EducatorsWorking Act Should be Amended to Require States Receiving Funds to End Seniority-Only Teacher-Layoff Policies

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application/pdf iconKeep Our Educators Working Letter to Congress.5-13.pdf

Letter to Senate HELP Committee on ESEA Reauthorization

Date: 
May 7 2010

Read the letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The document contains sections on Accountability for Results, Standards and Assessments, Ensuring Equitable Access to Effective Teachers and Leaders, Turning Around Our Lowest Performing Schools, Funding Fairness, Instructional Supports for Teachers, and Public Information and Reporting.

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application/pdf iconEd Trust ESEA Comments.pdf

Letter in Support of ESEA Fiscal Fairness Act

Date: 
April 30 2010

Read the letter to Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) from Ed Trust and other groups in support of closing the comparability loophole in Title I.

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application/pdf iconClose the Comparability Loophole3.pdf

Reauthorization of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

Date: 
April 13 2010

Read the Ed Trust letter to the chair and ranking member of the House Committee on Science and Technology urging the committee to retain strong incentives for scholarship recipients to teach in high-needs schools.

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application/pdf iconRobert Noyce Scholarship Letter 041310.pdf