The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is moving quickly on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Currently, the committee is planning to move to a full committee mark up on March 7th. Floor action on the reauthorization is expected to occur by mid March.

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has scheduled field hearings on the Act in Bradenton, FL (2/16/01), Marietta, GA (2/20/01), Chicago (3/2/01), and San Francisco (date TBA). Contact us if you need more information. Ranking Democrats on the Committee have submitted their own bill, H.R. 340.

Below you will find the analysis of the Center for Law and Education regarding the Bush education initiative as well as issues with S2. You will note that this commentary is footnoted. The footnotes relate to the discussion draft of the Senate version of this bill. It is especially critical that you contact any member of your federal delegation that serves on either key committee in the House or Senate.  To see members of the Senate Committee, click here.  To see the members of the House Committee, click here.   Needless to say, due to the fast approaching mark up in the Senate, it is most imperative to contact you members of the Senate first!

Linked to the analysis of the legislative proposals are 'talking points' about these proposals. It is critical that every member of the Senate and House are contacted concerning these issues! Please write to or call the members of your congressional delegation and educate them about the positions taken in the linked talking points. (For names and addresses of the members of Congress, click here.)

Please forward copies of any correspondence that you have with your delegation to cle@cleweb.org or call Paul Weckstein or Larry Searcy at 202-986-3000 to relay any conversation that you have had with a member of either key committee.

Click here to get to the CLE analysis of the ESEA Reauthorization

Click here for a PDF version of the CLE analysis