Abogados de Inmigracion

Administrators who do not know their field that well and of course administrators who want to continue to look great in the public eye have ways of manipulating the statistics to deceive America. I have not seen the statistics for 2003 and I assume they are bad too. Two years before that there was a drop on the Spanish GED in New York City from over 700 passing papers to slightly more than 100 and no investigation was even made. The Hispanic community is suffering around our nation in states that have large Hispanic populations, including Ohio, Florida, and Connecticut.

The people in Washington at the ACE have allowed states’ rights to exist when states’ rights on the GED should have been abandoned with the Civil Rights legislation. Puerto Rico has failed its people who have not passed the ESL test after passing the Spanish GED. Florida and New Jersey failed thousands of people who would have passed the same test in forty-eight other states, North Carolina requires all people to go to a GED program instead of allowing qualified people to take the test without going to class at all as other states permit, Illinois has hurt thousands of people each year who do not pass the Illinois State Constitution exam, many states do not even test in Spanish and French, which are official languages of the GED. Slavery and Jim Crow are over, but administrators who have not learned our history well or who know our history all too well and are using states’ rights to keep minorities and the poor down continue to harm our people and make them less competitive. Where is President Bush on this important issue? Maybe he should spend part of his month at the ranch thinking, thinking about what he is really doing to this nation. The War on Iraq is not going well and the war on education is going badly. Families and communities are getting worse as more students drop out from high school across our nation. I am sure there are more graduates in many places where there are also more dropouts than ever before. New York City, again, is an example of this.

As far as the raising of standards in testing in our nation at the elementary and junior high school levels, we can learn something quickly that GED teachers know so well since we teach toward the test. Many children who fail by one or two or three questions in math and reading could pass the next day. They would only need the opportunity to retake a different test. Of course these very same students, like all students will forget many things that they know during the summer months and they will be even farther behind where they were when they tested at the end of the previous school year. This shows the great waste that exists in the system. Mayor Mike Bloomberg and school Chancellor Joel Klein are proud of their accomplishments, but they really do not understand what they are doing. Parents should have the right to have their children retested immediately. In many states on the GED, students can retest the next day, but in New York State the policy has been that retesting has been permitted after two months or more. These administrative decisions only help make the residents in our state less competitive than in other states where people can retest immediately. I suggest that parents fight for immediate retesting and then take their children who pass on summer vacation, instead of making them spend the summer in remedial classes with teachers that probably do not know the children that well to be able to help them.

No Child Left Behind is not a success, but everyone hired by the Bush Administration will disagree. Let us make a study of the schools of New York City to prove that it is a success. In order to prove that anything is a success we need to have a control group to see benefits and of course the two things being tested must be the same before any changes are produced. Schools have traditionally done well because of the hard work of parents who pay tremendous sums of money for tutoring. I have seen it in my family in the affluent area of New City, New York. The parents there and around our nation have believed in No Child Left Behind before it actually existed. Did the money from No Child Left Behind help the marks in New York City in 2005? Let Mayor Bloomberg give us that answer now. If it did not, then you will know what I am pointing out and that is there is no proof that No Child Left Behind is working and that the success of the Bush presidency is an illusion.

MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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