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From http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2015/03/reauthorization_of_esea_where_in_the_world_are_languages.html

Reauthorization of ESEA: Where in the World Are Languages?
by Marty Abbott and Bill Rivers
March 2, 2015

Congress is working to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) formerly known as No Child Left Behind. None of the versions of the new Act—Senate, House, Republican, Democratic—have any dedicated programming for world languages.

Find out how you can lend your voice to those of the 13,000 language educators of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the 103 organizational members of the Joint National Committee for Languages, by letting the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions know that languages matter.

Read more at http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/global_learning/2015/03/reauthorization_of_esea_where_in_the_world_are_languages.html