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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please distribut</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">e.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">California’s<span style="color:black"> Assembly Education Committee is holding a hearing Monday, August 3, on SB 614, a very bad bill. It passed the Senate with a different subject last spring, and was then gut-amended to
remove California requirements for research-based reading instruction and eliminate the test that teachers must pass in reading instruction. This would remove the leverage that we currently have, such as it is, to demand comprehensive, research-based reading
instruction for students with disabilities. It would create more “instructional casualties”—students who are deemed learning disabled, or even intellectually disabled, because they do not intuitively pick up reading with whole language instruction, and need
systematic, phonics-based instruction instead. After much opposition, this bill was dropped last summer, but is being revived in the strange session that is occurring this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It is very important that as many people as possible be watching the hearing, and request to speak in opposition to the bill. The legislature needs to know that people are watching this. The hearing is Monday,
August 3, at 1 p.m. PST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Here is a link to see, or get to the link to see, the Education Committee. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#757575"><a href="https://edvoice.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a14631e5cc51cfa1714672da0&id=411dee385e&e=d0bf494300" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007C89">https://www.assembly.ca.gov/todaysevents</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> I think that a few people will be able to speak substantively and others will be able to say their name and roles/positions, and say that they oppose SB 614.
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Also, please contact members of the Education Committee Monday morning and let them know that SB 614 would seriously weaken California reading instruction. The problem with research-based instruction is not that
it doesn’t work; it’s that too often it does not occur. We need to strengthen access to research-based instruction, not give in to its opponents, who are taking advantage of this moment to weaken public school reading instruction. That would encourage parents
to leave the public school system, reduce support for public education, and hurt all students, particularly students with disabilities and students whose families cannot supplement whatever reading instruction they receive in school with on-line programs and
private tutoring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Here is a link to the bill and related information:
</span><a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB614">https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB614</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Below is a link to the letter submitted by the California Association for Parent-Child Advocacy: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ki5DMpXm139_tge4L6jE74jKCHLDbUuq/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ki5DMpXm139_tge4L6jE74jKCHLDbUuq/view?usp=sharing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here are members of the Assembly Education Committee:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a70"><span style="color:#AA5900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Patrick O'Donnell (Chair)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Member Patrick O'Donnell</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0070; (916) 319-2070<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Assembly Member Kevin Kiley</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0006; (916) 319-2006<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a01"><span style="color:#AA5900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Megan Dahle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Assembly Member Megan Dahle</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0001; (916) 319-2001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a27"><span style="color:#AA5900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Ash Kalra</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Assembly Member Ash Kalra</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0027; (916) 319-2027<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Assembly Member Kevin McCarty</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0007; (916) 319-2007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a38"><span style="color:#AA5900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Christy Smith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Assembly Member Christy Smith</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0038; (916) 319-2038<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://assembly.ca.gov/a79"><span style="color:#AA5900;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Shirley N. Weber</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Assembly Member Shirley N. Weber</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#333333">P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0079; (916) 319-2079<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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