GENERAL EDUCATION PROVISION ACT

WHEREAS, the AFT has long advocated effective research as necessary to the improvement of teaching and learning; and

WHEREAS, the proposed regulations under Sec. 439 of GEPA would inhibit legitimate research; and

WHEREAS, the AFT has worked to prevent federal intrusion into local decision-making on matters of curriculum instruction and teaching methods, and the proposed regulations would inject the federal government into these decisions in direct violation of Sec. 103 (b) of the Department of Education Organization Act by overriding the autonomy of state and local education authorities; and

WHEREAS, the AFT has strongly opposed federal rule making and regulations when local mechanisms for resolving disputes exist, and the proposed regulations would impose the federal government as an arbiter even where local and state remedies have not been exhausted; and

WHEREAS, many questions concerning the implementation of these regulations, such as their relationship to other federal education rights enforcement efforts, remain unresolved:

RESOLVED, that the AFT oppose the proposed Sec. 439 Regulations. (Executive Council)