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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">News from the American Library Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Pamela J. Hickson-Stevenson, Deputy Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Akron-Summit County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">60 S. High Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Akron, OH 44326<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">Visit us on the Web at</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0">
</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A"><a href="http://www.akronlibrary.org/"><span style="color:#E36C0A">http://www.akronlibrary.org</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#0070C0">or on our Mobile Site at</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#1E1EE0">
</span><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A"><a href="http://m.akronlibrary.org/"><span style="color:#E36C0A">http://m.akronlibrary.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Andalus","serif";color:#E36C0A">The Akron-Summit County Public Library provides resources for learning and leisure, information services, meeting spaces, and programs for all ages that support, improve, and enrich
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 09, 2015 10:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hickson-Stevenson, Pamela<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ALA Connect] ALA Members - Support School Libraries! ESEA Reauthorization - Keep the Momentum Going for the Every Child Achieves Ac (new)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://connect.ala.org/node/244433">Support School Libraries! ESEA Reauthorization - Keep the Momentum Going for the Every Child Achieves Ac</a></span></strong> (New Discussion)<br>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Share out to your state groups including State Legislative Panels, PTAs, CACs, etc.</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The time is NOW to contact your Senators and House Representatives!! Congress is back from recess and will be trying to reach a compromise between the Senate and the House of Representatives
version of the ESEA reauthorization. All the provisions listed below contain language specific to school libraries as well as provisions in Title II, Part A – Fund for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning; Title II, Part D – Literacy Education for All,
Results for the Nation (LEARN); and Title IX – General Provisions.</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contact your Senators and House Representatives TODAY by using the link below in this posting.</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://aasl.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9011bdd5ff860316c0afae3f0&id=f7bf1210cb&e=641a0f34a0" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep the Momentum
Going for the Every Child Achieves Act</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Currently, the House Committee on Education and Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions are preparing to go to “conference” in an attempt to work out differences
between the two versions of <a href="http://aasl.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9011bdd5ff860316c0afae3f0&id=423afb7430&e=641a0f34a0" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">S. 1177, the Every Child Achieves Act</span></strong></a> and
reach agreement on ESEA reauthorization. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ALA is asking (with your help!) that any conference agreement to reauthorize ESEA maintain the following provisions that were overwhelmingly adopted by the HELP Committee and the full
Senate under S. 1177, the Every Child Achieves Act:</span></strong><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1. <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Title V, Part H – Literacy and Arts Education – Authorizes activities to promote literacy programs that support the development of
literacy skills in low-income communities (similar to the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program that has been funded through appropriations) as well as activities to promote arts education for disadvantaged students.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2. <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Title I – Improving Basic Programs Operated by State and Local Educational Agencies – Under Title I of ESEA, State Educational Agencies
(SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) must develop plans on how they will implement activities funded under the Act.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3. <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Title V, Part G – Innovative Technology Expands Children’s Horizons (I-TECH) – Authorizes activities to ensure all students have
access to personalized, rigorous learning experiences that are supported through technology and to ensure that educators have the knowledge and skills to use technology to personalize learning.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now is the time to keep the momentum going! <a href="http://aasl.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9011bdd5ff860316c0afae3f0&id=eb138c156b&e=641a0f34a0" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contact
your Senators and Representative </span></strong></a>to let them know that you support the effective school library provisions found in the Senate bill and they should too!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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