"Great public schools, a basic right for every child"

In his keynote Weaver proposed an “economic Bill of Rights for the nation’s children including universal early childhood education, reduced class size, well paid educators, equal educational opportunities for all, including English language learners, and multiple measures of student learning instead of the increasing reliance on ‘one size fits all’ multiple choice tests.”

He said the Supreme Court ruling “will make it even harder to reach the goal of equal educational opportunity” for all children. The NEA should “put a call out” to concerned organizations to develop a response to the court’s action.

Delegates from Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, the cities whose school integration plans were overturned by the Supreme Court, called the ruling “sad” and “mind-boggling.”