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 * Shaker Name: Reg Weaver

Basic Work: President of the National Education Association

Key Work: Advocate for quality public schools.

Key Personnel:

Why/How a shaker? Reg Weaver has testified before the Committee on Education and Labor in the House of Representatives on September 10, 2007 concerning the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). He believes that the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) that is being prepared is not adequate. In this testimony he brings up the negative impact NCLB has had on under this system. It has been unworkable and caused negative consequences. The accountability has relied on two standardized state tests. NCLB is a federal leveled one-size- fits-all band-aid for the educational system. Weaver wants the reauthorization to be about "...providing a quality education to every student takes more than a measurement system." Teachers under the NCLB are teaching to test preparation. Originally the NCLB was to solve disparities in "educational opportunities and resources for poor children." In a reauthorization Weaver hopes to close these "opportunity gaps". One of the goals "is to remedy achievement and skill gaps that exist among different groups of students in this country, we cannot do so without addressing existing opportunity gaps." The NEA, which represents 3.2 million members, do not support the draft as it is written at this time.

Links: http://www.nea.org/lac/esea/091007testi.html**