education committee
The Committee on Education seeks to:
- Eliminate segregation and other discriminatory practices in public education.
- Study local educational conditions affecting minority groups.
- Investigate the public school system and school zoning.
- Familiarize itself with textbook material that is racially derogatory.
- Seek to stimulate school attendance.
- Keep informed of school conditions and strive to correct abuses where found.
- Investigate the effects of standardized and high stakes testing practices.
- Promote effective teacher certification.
- Promote parental involvement in education; and
- Aim to be a center of community education on issues affecting minority communities and on the work of the Association.