[WLA-All] US House Support for SKILLS Act needed

[Brian Greene]

For those on ALA's  ALAWON elist please forgive
the duplicate email.

If anyone receives notification about Rep. Cubin's 
    willingness to sponsor or not please update      
   all at wyla.org list.

This is of great interest to our K-12 library community.

Thank you,
    Brian, WLA President

>>> "Michael Dowling" <mdowling at ala.org> 9/24/2007 12:17 PM >>>
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 The Countdown is On to Save School Libraries!
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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor will
soon be considering reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act
(NCLB). In order for the SKILLs Act to be included in NCLB - that is, to
place a state-certified school library media specialist in every school
- each member of the House must co-sponsor the SKILLS Act.

The House has postponed mark-up for sometime in October and there is
still time to call your Representative. The name of your Representative
must appear on this bill! If your Representative's name does not appear
as a co-sponsor, please call his/her office immediately and request that
he/she support the SKILLs Act. If your Representative's name DOES appear
on this bill, contact his/her office and thank him/her for the continued
support of school libraries and school library media specialists.  

Look for more information, a list of sponsors, and a flier you can post
in your library about the SKILLS Act, all at the ALA Legislative Action
Center <http://capwiz.com/ala/issues/alert/?alertid=10223941> . 

Please contact your Representative immediately and ask him/her to
co-sponsor the SKILLs Act. 
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