Advocacy Organization Focuses on Fixing, Funding ESEA

Communities for Quality Education is a national education advocacy organization focused on communicating to the public the drawbacks of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, sometimes referred to as the No Child Left behind law. The group also seeks to make public education a central issue in the November 2004 elections.

The organization is working with parents, teachers, students and community leaders to address the education funding crises faced by states that are attempting to implement the law.

By working to build broad-based support to fix and fund the law, CQE supports state-based reform, resolving contradictory and unrealistic elements of ESEA, encouraging parent-teacher communication and placing a quality teacher in every classroom.

To learn more about the organization, visit www.qualityednow.org.

Posted July 12, 2004