[LM_NET] Campaign for the SKILLs Act-Please Join Us

[Ann Ewbank <Ann.Ewbank@ASU.EDU>]

Dear Teacher-Librarian Colleagues,

The Teacher-Librarian Division of the Arizona Library Association has
launched its campaign for the SKILLs Act, which will require a
highly-qualified teacher-librarian in every public school in the United
States. We have created an advocacy website where you can learn more
about the SKILLs Act, find your Congresspersons' phone and email
information, download sample letters to send to your Senators and
Representatives, and learn how you can engage stakeholders like parents
and teachers to join us in our efforts.

State Chapters are more than welcome to utilize this material and pass
it on to their state listservs.

http://storytrail.com/TLD/skills_act.htm

It is vitally important that you CALL or EMAIL your representative and
senators between now and the end of September, and encourage others to
do so, as hearings on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind are
happening this month.

You can see a LIVE webcast of the first hearing at 7am Arizona time
here: http://edlabor.house.gov/committee/schedule.shtml There is a
possibility that a teacher-librarian may be one of the first experts to
speak.

Again, please join us in this important advocacy effort on behalf of our
nation's children.

Ann Ewbank and Judi Moreillon, TLD Campaign for the SKILLs Act
Co-Chairs.

Ann Dutton Ewbank, Ph.D.
President, Arizona Library Association 
Education Liaison Librarian 
Fletcher Library 
Arizona State University at the West campus 
P.O. Box 37100 
Phoenix, Arizona 85069-7100 
602.543.8527 
Fax 602.543.6500 
Mail Code 0152 



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