[AAACE-NLA]NIFL lists & archives

[Frances Keenan]

Just a point of clarification, the information posted about ERIC asked
people to respond to the Department of Education which had REQUESTED
COMMENTS by May 9 on the RFP they issued suggesting drastic changes for
the ERIC system. 
 
I do not consider that lobbying.
 
I hope we hear from the National Institute for Literacy soon about what
is going on with the listservs they sponsor.
 
Fran Keenan
 
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: leslie89 [mailto:leslie89 at comcast.net] 
	Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 3:08 PM
	To: NLA Listserv
	Subject: [AAACE-NLA]NIFL lists & archives
	
	

	As you may know, NIFL was forced to block messages containing
advocacy initiated by the literacy field on NIFL listservs, and to block
access to archived listserv postings containing such advocacy messages.
While it is true that federal resources may not be used for lobbying, a
friend on Capitol Hill suggested that it is no coincidence that this
scrutiny of NIFL listservs comes just as H.R 1261 nears a vote on the
House floor. Indeed, I heard that the chief architect of this bill is
doing everything he can to stifle the voice of the field regarding this
blatantly partisan legislation. 

	At the COABE conference earlier this week, I heard that the
Institute also MAY be forced to block messages criticizing
Administration policy on its listservs! Again, my Hill friend said this
may have been inspired in part, by their over-zealous colleague having
taken offense to a discussion on one of the listservs about an article
he wrote. This is the same individual who is rumored to aspire to be the
next permanent director of an institute he has revamped to suit himself.
If true, isn't there an ethics problem here?

	 

	leslie89

	"... unless people are educated and enlightened

	it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty

	or the capacity for self-government."

	Texas Declaration of Independence, March 2, 1836

	





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