[Nfbn-announce] Calling on All NFB Family

[Amy Buresh]

WE are in great need of support for a crisis in Mississippi. Recently HB960
was introduced to the Education Committee. We as members of Parents of Blind
Children sat down with Mississippi Department of Education and Mississippi
School for the Blind. We made compromises to include their thoughts and made
an agreement on the bill that would go through house and Senate. It (HB960)
passed the House Education Committee with the agreed upon changes. It passed
Senate Education Committee without the agreed upon changes and weaker
language. We need you to email our Representatives and Our Senators in
support of HB960. This bill calls for competent braille teachers, text books
on time, and aligns MS law with federal law when providing braille to low
vision and blind students.
Please help us by listening to the video link below and then email
<mailto:representatives at house.ms.gov> representatives at house.ms.gov and
<mailto:seantors at senate.ms.gov> seantors at senate.ms.gov . Help us show
Mississippi that 50,000 plus blind people are interested in the education of
blind and low vision students. Let them know we will not sit on the outside
of the room while they decide the future of our kids. 
Thank you, 
Casey Robertson
Teacher of Blind Students M.ED NCLB

"Casey West" <caseywest94 at hotmail.com>








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvI_IhdzytY Kids Speaking for Kids

 

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