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Suffolk NYCLU Executive Director Jared Feuer Provides Testimony to the Governor’s Commission on Education Reform

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jared Feuer, media@suffolknyclu.org

January 8, 2004

On January 8, 2004, Suffolk NYCLU Director Jared Feuer provided testimony to Governor Pataki's Commission on Education Reform. The Commission is charged with the role of provided recommendations to Governor Pataki that will, upon implementation, enable the state to meet the court-ordered requirement that every student be provided with "a meaningful high school education." During the testimony, Mr. Feuer recommended, "a process for the State to provide state education officials who will meet with local school officials and parents and community representatives, as well as education experts, and to develop, collectively, a remedial plan tailored to each of these failing schools that the State will then be required to fund and to implement."

Mr. Feuer later said, "A meaningful high school education enables students to become full participants in society and have access to equal opportunities for success and knowledge. It is so important that it is guaranteed by our state constitution. And as our current education system discriminates based on the background of students, it is discriminatory in nature, unconstitutional in practice, and it must be changed immediately."

Click here to read the full testimony.

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