[nabs-l] Teach Act Update: ACE breaks the silence

[Helga Schreiber]

Hi all! How are you all? I just wanted to suggest something here, since we are not having success for the TEACH Act to to be approve by Congress; i don't know if you have tried this. Have we tried getting a Lobbysts or Lobbysts from Congress to help us fight regarding this issue with the TEACH Act? Just curious. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks so much and God bless! 

Helga Schreiber

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> On Oct 11, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Ashley Bramlett via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I did not like Ace's response. Any new progress on this legislation? I understand its not the teach act but is in some other higher education bill now.
> Will such a bill be passed? who are its sponsors?
> 
> There's a lot of     inaccessible technology, so we really need this act asap.
> 
> Ashley
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Mary Fernandez via nabs-l
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:37 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Teach Act Update: ACE breaks the silence
> 
> All,
> As all of you are aware, we have kicked up our campaign for the teach
> act, in hopes of educating Congress, as members will soon be headed
> out of Washington. The American Councel on Education, ACE, voiced
> their opposition to the teach Act, though the reasons cited, if they
> could be called that, were dubious at best. As a response, we set on a
> Twitter campaign last week, and Kyle Shachmut wrote an excellent Op-Ed
> on Teach for the Boston Globe.
> Today, ACE has finally broken their silence in response to our
> prodding for answers as to why they oppose Teach.
> There are two pieces, the shorter, and the response to Kyle's op-ed
> can be found here:
> http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/09/15/podiumace/515BAeYZeCDmw38dQ21QBM/story.html)
> The second, and longer of the two, published on Inside Higher Ed is here:
> https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/09/16/essay-criticizing-teach-act).
> 
> To summarize, they claim that Teach will subject universities to the
> oversight of a "obscure federal agency", that teach will "overturn
> current Federal law" and that Teach will hurt studetns and
> universities by preventing the use of innovative technologies. All of
> it is highly uneducated rubbish.
> So, what should we do? I think we've proved that we can get people
> talking if we engage in social media dialogues,  so go ahead and click
> on these two links, and make comments on the articles. How do you feel
> about Teach? Why is it important? Why is ACE wrong?
> I caution you to be polite and to know your facts.
> Check our President Riccobono's blog on teach at:
> https://nfb.org/blog/vonb-blog/unachievable-or-unwanted-why-ace-opposed-accessibility-guidelines
> And start commenting right away!
> This is news, so time is of the essence, lets create a barrage of
> comments on the Globe and Inside Higher Ed. Ready? Set? Teach!
> 
> -- 
> Mary Fernandez
> "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
> forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
> feel."
> --
> Maya Angelou
> 
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