{"id":6080,"date":"2011-10-23T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2011-10-23T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:55:38","slug":"isakson-amendment-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/isakson-amendment-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Isakson Amendment Defeated!"},"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=\"Isakson%20Amendment%20Defeated%21%20%20\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>On <strong>Tuesday, October 17<\/strong>, we sent an <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a title=\"Vote No on the Isakson Amendment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/11\/al.1017.esea.htm\">email alert<\/a> <\/span>to subscribers, and asked you to &#8220;<strong>Tell Your Senator to Vote NO on the Isakson Amendment<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We explained that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;The Isakson amendment would discriminate against children with disabilities by allowing schools to significantly lower the academic expectations for students, based on their scores in state accountability tests. This use of these tests, for this purpose, would apply only to children with disabilities.&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a title=\"Vote No on Isakson Amendment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/11\/al.1017.esea.htm\">Read full text of alert here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Wednesday, October 18<\/strong>, a bipartisan coalition of civil rights groups, business associations, education officials, and education advocates refused to support the bill and issued a news release: \u00a0<strong>Civil<\/strong><strong> Rights Groups, Business <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Groups, State Education Officials, and Education Advocates on ESEA Proposal:<\/strong> <strong>\u201cWe Cannot Support the Bill at this Time\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u201cAs representatives of the millions of students with disabilities, low-income students, students of color, English-language learners and migrant students who are studying in our nation\u2019s schools &#8230; we cannot support the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act of 2011 at this time. The bill\u2019s weak accountability system excludes the vast majority of children we represent, and is a major barrier to our organizations\u2019 support.&#8221;<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a title=\"We Cannot Support This Bill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civilrights.org\/press\/2011\/we-cannot-support-this-bill.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Read full text of news release<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Friday, October 20<\/strong>, the Senate HELP Committee defeated the Isakson amendment by a vote of 14-8. * list of Senators&#8217; votes at the end of this post *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaway<\/strong>: When we take action on issues that will negatively affect our children, we can and do influence decisions made by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This is one battle in a longer war. We should expect to take action on other issues as the reauthorization of the ESEA \/ NCLB continues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thanks to everyone who took the time to contact your Senators!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voted to defeat Isakson amendment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Harkin (IA)<br \/>\nBarbara A. Mikulski (MD)<br \/>\nJeff Bingaman (NM)<br \/>\nPatty Murray (WA)<br \/>\nBernard Sanders (I) (VT)<br \/>\nRobert P. Casey, Jr. (PA)<br \/>\nKay R. Hagan (NC)<br \/>\nJeff Merkley (OR)<br \/>\nAl Franken (MN)<br \/>\nMichael F. Bennet (CO)<br \/>\nSheldon Whitehouse (RI)<br \/>\nRichard Blumenthal (CT)<br \/>\nLisa Murkowski (AK)<br \/>\nMark Kirk (IL)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voted for the Isakson amendment <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael B. Enzi (WY)<br \/>\nLamar Alexander (TN)<br \/>\nRichard Burr (NC)<br \/>\nJohnny Isakson (GA)<br \/>\nRand Paul (KY)<br \/>\nOrrin G. Hatch (UT)<br \/>\nJohn McCain (AZ)<br \/>\nPat Roberts (KS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 17, we sent an email alert to subscribers, and asked you to &#8220;Tell Your Senator to Vote NO on the Isakson Amendment.&#8221; We explained that\u00a0&#8220;The Isakson amendment <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/isakson-amendment-defeated\/\">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":[1363,224,4,7,157,1273,241],"tags":[1338],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discrimination-section-504-adaa","category-education-policy","category-general-info","category-legal-news","category-no-child-left-behind","category-political-action","category-school-improvement","tag-esea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","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=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}