| Resolution Number: | 1988-A116 |
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| Title: | Support Improvement of Public School Education |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That the 69th General Convention, recognizing that the public school system is a fundamental key for enlarging and maintaining a multicultural community and handing on the democratic and religious traditions of human worth and dignity for all social and ethnic groups, recommit itself to supporting and improving public school education, particularly in urban and rural areas; and be it further
Resolved, That as the public school systems provide the crucial vehicle of hope for the advancement of urban and rural poor into mainstream society with skills, self-esteem, and social mobility, thereby enriching our present diverse national community and Church, that this Church, with its commitment to Jubilee Ministry and its emphasis on working with and advocacy for the poor and disadvantaged in our society, urge all dioceses and congregations to consider serious cooperative programs with local public school authorities in community affairs, such as drop-outs, illiteracy, inadequate child-care facilities, teen-age pregnancies and decreasing numbers of minority teachers; and be it further
Resolved, That this Church reaffirm its willingness to participate in an ecumenical task force to study public education and its relationship to a just society through its staff at the Episcopal Church Center, as it did in 1985.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 235. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Standing Commission on the Church in Metropolitan Areas |
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| Originating House: | House of Deputies |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Social and Urban Affairs |
House of Deputies
Original Text of Resolution:
(A116)
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 69th General Convention, recognizing that the public school system is a fundamental key for enlarging and maintaining a multicultural community and handing on the democratic and religious traditions of human worth and dignity for all social and ethnic groups, recommit itself to supporting and improving public school education, particularly in urban and rural areas; and be it further
Resolved, That as the public school systems provide the crucial vehicle of hope for the advancement of urban and rural poor into mainstream society with skills, self-esteem, and social mobility, thereby enriching our present diverse national community and Church, that this Church, with its commitment to Jubilee Ministry and its emphasis on working with and advocacy for the poor and disadvantaged in our society, urge all dioceses and congregations to consider serious cooperative programs with local public school authorities in community affairs, such as drop-outs, illiteracy, inadequate child-care facilities, teen-age pregnancies and decreasing numbers of minority teachers; and be it further
Resolved, That this Church reaffirm its willingness to participate in an ecumenical task force to study public education and its relationship to a just society through its staff at the Episcopal Church Center, as it did in 1985.
Motion carried
Resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #171)
House of Bishops
The Committee on Social and Urban Affairs presented its Report #48 on House of Deputies Message #171 on Resolution A116 (Public school education) and moved concurrence.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #263)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 8.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on the Church in Metropolitan Areas, Reports to the 69th General Convention, 1988, pp. 208-231. |
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| Abstract: | The 69th General Convention supports improving public school education and urges dioceses and congregations to consider programs with local public schools. |