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- Subject: School Board Association Recommends New Partnership for Education
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- Here is a press release from the National School Boards Association.
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- School Board Association Recommends New Partnership for Education
- To: National Desk, Education Writer
- Contact: Jeremiah Floyd of the National School Boards Association,
- 703-838-6722
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- ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 10 -- On the occasion of American
- Education Week, the National School Boards Association today
- called upon President-Elect Clinton to forge a new federal,
- state and local partnership in public education.
- "We believe that such a partnership will form the foundation by
- which our nation can develop the high skilled work force needed to
- lead us to prosperity in the internationally competitive world of
- the 21st Century," said NSBA President Dr. E. Harold Fisher of Blue
- Mountain, Miss.
- To achieve this objective, NSBA urges that President-Elect
- Clinton and personnel in his administration meet with key sectors of
- the education, business and other public sector organizations to
- develop a comprehensive national strategy for educational
- excellence and equity that emphasizes the critical importance of
- putting adequate resources into the local communities across our
- nation. Thomas A. Shannon, NSBA Executive Director said that,
- "From these meetings, we would hope that coordinated and
- collaborative nationwide effort toward educational improvement will
- become a primary element in President-Elect Clinton's legislative
- program for the first 100 days. The emphasis must be on local
- communities because that is where education takes place."
- The leadership of NSBA believes there is a strong connection
- between education and our nation's future success. NSBA urges
- President-Elect Clinton's active leadership in bringing together
- these forces which ultimately will determine whether our nation and
- our people will succeed in building world-class public education
- in each local community in the United States.
- NSBA is a not-for-profit federation of state associations of
- local school boards, the Hawaii State Board of Education, the
- boards of education of the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin
- Islands and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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