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CAT Tracks for January 13, 2014
IEA CALL FOR ACTION |
Received the following e-mail from IEA President Cinda Klickna...
From: IEA President Cinda Klickna
Worried about 70/30 class size proposed rules? Make your voice heard!
The Illinois State Board of Education is trying again to boost the number of special education students that can be placed in general and special education classrooms, jeopardizing the opportunity for all students to get the best education possible.
Our chance to defeat it at the Jan. 22 board meeting depends on you. Click here to send a personal email to ISBE board members. Include in your email:
Sending this email will ensure all ISBE board members get your message.
Feel free to share this information with parents and encourage them to send emails, as well. They should note that they are a parent, where their student attends school and how they believe this change would negatively affect their student.
If ISBE's attempt to change the proposed rules succeeds, it would mean there would be no state limit on the number of students with disabilities that school districts could place in either type of classroom.
CAT Tracks Editor's Note:
Folks, this one is a no-brainer...
...and EASY even if you are not the politically active type.
Just click the link above. It launches your e-mail program, already addressed. Type your message. Hit "Send". Ya done good!
Like I used to tell my students about voting...
...it's your choice, but if you don't, then you forfeit your complaining rights!
A song for a lack of action?
But, of course!
Well, at least the closing lines of Billy Joel's "Big Shot"...
...directed at a person who didn't say no to dope(s):
If the dopes at ISBE pass this, it'll be the law.
There won't be a thing that Mama CAT can do but give you a shoulder to cry on...
Date: 01/13/14 10:15:17
To: rjnewell@midwest.net
Subject: Your help is needed regarding 70/30 class size!
Ooh, and when you wake up in the mornin'
With your head on fire
And your eyes too bloody to see
Go on and cry in your coffee
But don't come bitchin' to me
