{"id":444844,"date":"2010-03-18T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T01:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2010-03-18T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T01:06:37","slug":"nea-president-lauds-iea-efforts-for-rttt-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444844","title":{"rendered":"NEA president lauds IEA efforts for RTTT initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEA President Dennis Van Roekel had high praise for the IEA Thursday for the organization<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6551\" title=\"NEA PREZ\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/NEA-PREZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/>\u2019s efforts to secure federal Race to the Top funds for Illinois schools.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the delegates to the IEA Representative Assembly, Van Roekel said IEA\u2019s significant role in shaping the state\u2019s initiative to secure the federal funds would yield significant positive results for IEA members.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIEA \u2026 not only got to the table but influenced the outcome and is going to make a difference for every single member of this organization in the year ahead.\u00a0 That\u2019s power.\u00a0 That\u2019s the ability to use collective action for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Roekel added that the NEA is continuing to \u201cfight the good fight\u201d in its significant lobbying efforts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To change the federal \u201cNo Child Left Behind\u201d legislation to reduce its reliance on single high stakes testing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To use collaboration and involvement of educators to help struggling schools.<\/li>\n<li>To protect the rights of educators and school employees in school reform efforts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Click for <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/ieatv\/video?clipId=pla_5d307d6f-05c5-47e0-86a6-cc4b50349364\"><strong>Van Roekel\u2019s speech<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click for <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.partnership4learning.org\/resources\/newsletters\/race-top-blueprint-new-no-child-left-behind-act\"><strong>Blueprint for Race to the Top<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEA President Dennis Van Roekel had high praise for the IEA Thursday for the organization\u2019s efforts to secure federal Race to the Top funds for Illinois schools. Speaking before the delegates to the IEA Representative Assembly, Van Roekel said IEA\u2019s significant role in shaping the state\u2019s initiative to secure the federal funds would yield significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}