History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
A letter to Secretary Arne Duncan
- 07-19-2010
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Letter by Rita M. Solnet/Washington Post
Dear Secretary Duncan: Reading your comments in the Kansas City Star [in an article] entitled, “Education is Civil Rights Issue of Our Generation,’ I simply had to write. I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. However, the DOE’s Blueprint for Reform and Race to the Top competitive grants abandon the very children who desperately need to be educated--those who are English language learners, the poverty stricken, homeless, autistic, disabled, etc. The DOE’s reform initiatives and criteria to ’win’ grant money narrow the curriculum by its obsessive focus on standardized tests. (more...)
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