Looking for a Name

Please read a special post from FCCLA Executive Director Michael Benjamin.

Welcome to 2011 and Happy New Year to all!  So what’s new on the education front for 2011?  From a legislative perspective, it appears that the Obama Administration will be moving to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act or as we have known it since 2002 as the No Child Left Behind Act.  According to The Washington Post, both the Administration and the Congress is ready to deal with reauthorization.  One of the problems at this point in the process according to the Post and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan “no one has come up with a better idea than the formal name since 1965: the Elementary and Secondary Education Act” other than the No Child Left Behind and few like that name.  So Secretary Duncan is asking for “suggestions. We’re wide open.”

On behalf of FCCLA, I would like to present suggested names to the Secretary for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.  So please send me your suggestions and I’ll forward them to the Secretary.  I will need your ideas by Monday, January 31, 2011.  My email is mbenjamin@fcclainc.org.