From marg at columbia.edu Fri Jan 12 17:19:28 2007 From: marg at columbia.edu (Marg Suarez) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:19:28 -0500 Subject: [TNT Announce] From WOW: Comments Needed: Dept. of Ed Would Roll Back Self-Sufficiency Provisions and Accountability in Career and Technical Education Message-ID: <7340f6c20701121419v3c3146f2vc77446a7015e23c5@mail.gmail.com> Dear TNT Colleagues, Please find attached an important request for comments sent out by a TNT member organization, Wider Opportunities for Women. Concerned organizations should consider forwarding comments on the importance of Career and Technical Education on the economic self-sufficiency of women and girls to the Department of Education by January 16. The attached files should assist in this process. Thank you. All the best for the coming year! Margarita Suarez Board Member Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow (TNT) http://www.tradeswomennow.org/ ------------------------------ *From:* WOWNWN at yahoogroups.com [mailto:WOWNWN at yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Kate Farrar *Sent:* Friday, January 12, 2007 9:31 AM *Subject:* [WOWNWN] Comments Needed: Dept. of Ed Would Roll Back Self-Sufficiency Provisions and Accountability in Career and Technical Education *Importance:* High *Comments Needed: * *Dept. of Ed Would Roll Back Self-Sufficiency Provisions and Accountability in Career and Technical Education* The Career and Technical Education Task Force of the National Coalition of Women and Girls in Education has become very concerned about new guidance from the Department of Education failing to address the goal of economic "self-sufficiency," as well as weakening the core indicator on non-traditional training ? two critical elements in ensuring that all students are prepared for high wage and high growth jobs. We need your help to ensure that the Department of Education receives a large volume of comments opposing these changes by *COB** January 16th*. *We hope that each of your organizations dedicated to women and girls' education will submit separate comments to the Department of Education.* You'll find attached: 1.) model comments that you can customize (please note where you can insert your Organization's name) and 2.) the second edition of the State Plan Guide. Please send me copies of any comments you submit. And, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions, or if I can provide you with additional information or materials. Thank you for all of your efforts to improve opportunities for women and girls in education and achieving economic independence. *Kate C. Farrar* *Associate Director of National Programs & Policy* *Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Project* Wider Opportunities for Women 1001 Connecticut Ave., Suite 930 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 464-1596 x103 Fax: (202) 464-1660 kfarrar at wowonline.org *Celebrating 40 Years of Building Pathways To Economic Independence for America's Women and Girls* *1964-2004* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://tradeswomennow.org/pipermail/announce_tradeswomennow.org/attachments/20070112/d07cfacb/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Model_Comments_for_National_Organizationsfinal WOW.doc Type: application/msword Size: 56832 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://tradeswomennow.org/pipermail/announce_tradeswomennow.org/attachments/20070112/d07cfacb/attachment-0002.doc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: State Plan Guide 12-13-06.doc Type: application/msword Size: 276480 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://tradeswomennow.org/pipermail/announce_tradeswomennow.org/attachments/20070112/d07cfacb/attachment-0003.doc