The Choice Channel

“Representatives from the Los Angeles Unified School District kicked off a two-day lobbying trip to Capitol Hill on Thursday by advocating reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind education reform law, which Congress will consider before the end of the year. ‘I’m here representing 700,000 children who absolutely need critical attention on No Child Left Behind. Your work to better serve English-language learners . . . is super, super important,’ L.A. Board of Education President Monica Garcia told aides to lawmakers. Peter Zamora, co-chairman of the Hispanic Education Coalition, made up of organizations seeking to improve educational opportunities for the nation’s Latinos, emphasized that the majority of the district’s English learners are native-born, many of them second- or third-generation citizens.” (09/28/07)