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| Title | Statement from Secretary Rod Paige in Response to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus en Español |
| Body | From: OELA Newsline PRESS RELEASES Statement from Secretary Rod Paige in Response to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus en Español FOR RELEASE: February 5, 2004 Contact: Susan Aspey (202) 401-1576 (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/02/02052004.html) The following is a statement from U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige in response to a press release issued yesterday by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus: "It is regretful and inevitable that, in a campaign year, some groups will go to any length to distort the president's historic education reform. It is more disappointing to learn that such rhetoric should come from Hispanic members of the U.S. House of Representatives because the law specifically aims to help their constituents. "Hispanic American children have a great deal to gain from the educational reforms of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the historic education reform law that passed Congress with strong bipartisan support, including all members of the Hispanic Caucus. For the first time in the history of public education, the federal government is demanding accountability for the billions of taxpayer dollars that are used to educate our children. Fifty years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that desegregated schools and gave minorities the same access as their white peers, we finally have a law that goes beyond access and ensures that minority children receive a quality education. "I will not stand by to lose yet another generation of Hispanic American children to the soft bigotry of low expectations. "This law is funded at a level to get the job done. Never in the history of our country has the federal government invested so much money in the education of our children.................. Finish the article at: (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2004/02/02052004.html) |
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