First NCLB, now the CRC
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- November
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Rockland child and education advocates were among hundreds of people participating in a 12-state push today to get the U.S. Senate to reconsider the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The UN treaty grants basic rights — survival, for instance — to the world’s children. Proposed most recently in 1989 (earlier versions appeared in 1924 and 1959), it was ratified by 193 members of the United Nations — everybody but Somalia and the United States.
Many of the people who participated in Friday’s briefing at Rockland Community College were part of last year’s push to get the federal No Child Left Behind law modified. With that debate still on-going, several of the advocates are helping local supporters of the CRC get more attention publicly and politically.
For information on the CRC, visit www.childrightscampaign.org.
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on Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 7:31 pm by Randi Weiner.
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without a doubt children’s rights should be a top five concern in the world..
basic rights… survival… think how scary that is.. thank you for bringing this issue to light.. i will definitely follow the CRC.com
sounds like the school district is in quite the pickle! Please keep us up to date!