McCline for Congress Pledges Public School Protection & Preservation Act: “Putting Public School Education First is a Civil Rights Issue”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: June 19, 2014 Daniel Tilson, 413.446.7776 dan@mcclineforcongress.com McCline for Congress Pledges Public School Protection & Preservation Act: “Putting Public School Education First is a Civil Rights Issue” Delray Beach, FL,... More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: June 19, 2014 Daniel Tilson, 413.446.7776 dan@mcclineforcongress.com McCline for Congress Pledges Public School Protection & Preservation Act: “Putting Public School Education First is a Civil Rights Issue” Delray Beach, FL, June 19, 2014 – The Jameel McCline for Congress campaign announced today that if elected, McCline would sponsor new legislation designed to fight back against increasing privatization and destabilization of America’s public school system. Because Public Education isn’t expressly mentioned as a federal power in the U.S. Constitution, its funding and administration is historically considered a “power reserved to the states”. But McCline believes putting public schools first is a Civil Rights issue: “Civil Rights are "the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality”. Shouldn’t that protect our public school system from systematic defunding through privatization?” A child of poverty and product of New York public schoo Less