"As a teacher in a racially diverse school with a 55 percent FARM population , I find that the current demands of ESEA/NCLB are becoming more and more demanding. We have been able to make AYP for the last two years, having been in school improvement for the former three years and having faced state reconstitution. Finding faculty who will stay with us is very difficult. Veteran teachers choose to work in other settings, and newer teachers do not have the necessary skills and experience to remain at the school, with the many demands they face every day.

"Reauthorization should include providing the funding necessary to implement the goals and requirements of ESEA. Local boards of education need the financial resources that the federal government can provide to assist schools in continuing to make progress toward closing the achievement gap.

"Your support of adequate funding is vital to the important work that my colleagues and I do each and every day." ll-rounded, complete education. Please work with Nebraska to see this happens in the reauthorization of ESEA."

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