Hi,

I was wondering if you’d heard about the unfortunate remark Secretary of Education Rod Paige recently made about the NEA? Sec. Paige referred to the NEA a “terrorist organization” at a White House meeting of state governors a few weeks ago. I was pretty shocked that Paige would go that far and use that type of language :!: :!:

The organization I work for, GiveKidsGoodSchools.com, is concerned that Paige’s words indicate a lack of respect for America’s educators so we’re running a letter writing campaign to ask Secretary Paige to foster a spirit of cooperation and respect with America’s educators and the groups like the NEA that serve them. I was wondering if you’d help us spread the word about this.

Here is the link to the page on our web site that allows people to send a free letter to Rod Paige.
[url="http://www.givekidsgoodschools.com/campaign/paige"]http://www.givekidsgoodschools.com/campaign/paige[/url]

GiveKidsGoodSchools.com is a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to improving the quality of public education for America’s kids.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Andrew

Here are a few links to some news coverage of the Secretary’s remarks:

[url="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/education/25PAIG.html"]http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/education/25PAIG.html[/url]

[url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64712-2004Feb23.html"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Feb23.html[/url]
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