{"id":1417,"date":"2009-09-14T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2009-09-14T12:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:55:32","slug":"call-in-your-comment-education-news-parents-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/call-in-your-comment-education-news-parents-can-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Call in Your Comment &#8211; Education News Parents Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Call%20in%20Your%20Comment%20-%20Education%20News%20Parents%20Can%20Use\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/edtv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;float:left\" title=\"Education TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/ed.gov.news.jpg\" alt=\"Education News Parents Can Use\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/registerevent.ed.gov\/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewer.description&amp;intEventID=233\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Education News Parents Can Use Broadcast<\/span><\/a> Tuesday night, <strong>September 15, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET,<\/strong> will feature Secretary Duncan in a special town hall meeting, subtitled \u201c<strong>America Goes Back to School<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong> Call the show<\/strong> during the live broadcast.  Here&#8217;s how&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the &#8220;town hall meeting&#8221; the Secretary will engage in a live, interactive discussion via telephone, email, and video.<\/p>\n<p>To contribute to the discussion:<\/p>\n<p><strong>call the show during the live broadcast<\/strong>, at 1-888-493-9382, between 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Since May, the Secretary has been traveling throughout the country to engage a broad group of stakeholders &#8212; including parents &#8212; in an open and honest conversation about federal education policy in anticipation of the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.<\/p>\n<p>He has met with hundreds of students, parents, teachers, principals, education support staff, superintendents, professors, higher education administrators, and community leaders during his tour: \u201cListening and Learning: A Conversation About Education Reform\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/edtv\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.ed.gov\/edtv<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More resources and information<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/Topics\/Back_to_School.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">USA.gov<\/span><\/a> has an extensive list of web sites  with links that provide resources for students, parents, and educators in preparation for returning to school in the fall. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/Topics\/Back_to_School.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/Topics\/Back_to_School.shtml<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Find statistics on students, teachers, and learning, as well as data concerning back to school shopping, lunchtime, and the rewards of staying in school (with an advanced degree, the average annual earnings of workers 18 and older in 2007 was $80,977; with a bachelor&#8217;s degree, $57,181; with only a high school diploma, $31,286; and without a diploma, $21,484).<\/p>\n<p>Census Bureau&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/Press-Release\/www\/releases\/archives\/facts_for_features_special_editions\/013847.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Back to School feature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at<\/span> http:\/\/www.census.gov\/Press-Release\/www\/releases\/archives\/facts_for_features_special_editions\/013847.html<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education News Parents Can Use Broadcast Tuesday night, September 15, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET, will feature Secretary Duncan in a special town hall meeting, subtitled \u201cAmerica Goes Back to School.\u201d Call <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/call-in-your-comment-education-news-parents-can-use\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,224,157,241,161],"tags":[415,201,176,41,67],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-education-policy","category-no-child-left-behind","category-school-improvement","category-teachers","tag-back-to-school","tag-parent-participation","tag-parent-rights","tag-parental-rights","tag-parental-role"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}