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Jean and RTE forum friends<br>
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do you think a PIL can be explored? even if the PIL will take its
time, the 'publicity' around it will persuade the Govt a bit about
the seriousness. The initial step of 'drafting' can borrow from the
Karnataka PIL as well<br>
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regards<br>
Guru<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/09/21 9:18 am,
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Roman",serif">Yes, there was a PIL filed by the SDMC
members to reopen all classes from 1 to 10 and to start MDM
immediately. The response was very good. However, after
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forefront is very crucial to move forward. We can explore
the possibility of filing a PIL to relieve teachers from the
election duty given the education emergency in the state
though the RTE empowers the states to take their services
during elections, census and other natural calamities. They
can deploy personnel from other departments. <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Guru
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:Guru@ITforChange.net"><Guru@ITforChange.net></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 September 2021 10:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:jharkhand@educationemergency.net">jharkhand@educationemergency.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:jharkhand@educationemergency.net"><jharkhand@educationemergency.net></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> niranjan aradhya <a
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href="mailto:aradhyaniranjan@hotmail.com"><aradhyaniranjan@hotmail.com></a>;
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href="mailto:core@educationemergency.net">core@educationemergency.net</a>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Jharkhand] Subject : Internal Update #
2 (September 5 – 18, 2021) – National Coalition on Education
Emergency.</font>
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<div>Yes, I think the RTE Forum is planning to meet this month
or early next month.<br>
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We should do our best to highlight the extra-ordinary
callousness of the system in denying children their
fundamental right to education.<br>
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In Karnataka, last year itself a PIL was put in the Karnataka
High Court which took the matter quite seriously (both RTE and
right to food/nutrition under MMS). The directives of the
Court were listened to by the Executive. (Niranjan would have
details). If the CJ is sensitive, this can be helpful.<br>
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The proposed meeting could discuss a PIL as an immediate
action as well. <br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Guru<br>
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On 21/09/21 3:57 pm, Jean Dreze wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;"> Dear Guru: The situation in Jharkhand is even worse
than I thought, as you can guess from this short note.
Teachers are on election duty and there is little chance
of them being able to spare much time for children in the
next few months even if primary/UP schools reopen. By that
time children will be catapulted <i>three </i>grades
ahead of their pre-lockdown class. As it is, some of them
are saddled with textbooks in English <i>and</i> Sanskrit
even if they have forgotten the Hindi alphabet! Sooner the
Jharkhand meeting can happen the better...</p>
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line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;"> Cordially,<br>
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line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;"> Jean</p>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 21-09-2021 15:32, Guru
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear friends,
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> Starting from
this issue, we will be providing a brief <i>fortnightly</i>
<i>internal update </i>to those who are participating
in the work/ meetings of the National Coalition on the
Education Emergency (<b>NCEE</b>). We feel this will be
useful, as our network has expanded, and many activities
are being organized in parallel. The newsletter, for a
broader circulation, will be issued monthly. The
internal update will take only a few minutes to read.
Feel free to make suggestions and any help in any area!
Please visit the <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/"
moz-do-not-send="true">education emergency website </a>for
more information.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u><b>1. </b></u><u><b>Social
Mobilization Group</b></u> (A big thank you for the
many people who helped with these activities)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u>Maharashtra</u>:
NCEE spoke at a meeting on Sept 18, organized by the
<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/advocacy-campaigns/"
moz-do-not-send="true"> RTE Forum, Maharashtra </a>and
other organizations, and discussed the education
emergency context and the work of the Coalition. The
research brief released by the NCEE was presented to
an audience of around 450 teachers, parents and RTE
activists, in Marathi.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u>Jharkhand</u>:
A meeting was held with various local organizations.
A larger public meeting will be organized in early
October. Among other things, the findings of the
SCHOOL survey and <a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kPMr8i-TcgAtX0pomctd-7017iJ16j3-/view?usp=sharing"
moz-do-not-send="true"> ongoing work</a> of the
NCEE will be presented.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u>Telengana</u>:
A meeting was held with local organizations and
representative of low-cost private schools. The
organizations will also explore doing the NCEE high
frequency rapid surveys. A larger public meeting is
planned before the end of September.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <br>
<u><b>2. </b><b>Education Support Group </b></u></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <span
style="font-weight:normal">The Education Support
Group ha</span><span style="font-weight:normal">d
prepared a template for documenting the work done
by organizations in ‘community learning centres’
during the pandemic. Six organizations have <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/innovative-models/"
moz-do-not-send="true">shared their work </a>as
per this template. Their documents is being
collated to create a note on pedagogical
innovations that would be relevant to teachers in
schools as well.</span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; font-weight:normal;
line-height:108%"> The Group is collating learning
resources and is in the process of sharing these in
a curated manner through a <a
href="https://teacher-network.in/OER/index.php/Education_Innovation_Models"
moz-do-not-send="true">MediaWiki repository</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u><b><br>
</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u><b>3. </b><b>Education
Research Group</b></u></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%">
The Research Group released a ‘<a
href="https://educationemergency.net/2021/09/coalition-releases-research-brief/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Research Brief</a>’, which
is a summary of Indian and International researches
on Covid and Education, over last 18 months, in
English and Hindi. The compendium consisting of
brief summary of each individual research is
available <a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1coEeu0lZRBsMEg366uIVxEYPS7Bc2ey_nO2uCIQwSyE/edit?usp=sharing"
moz-do-not-send="true"> here</a>. Please use this
for your advocacy and mobilization purposes. </p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%">
The group will update the research compendium <u>every
two months</u>, with studies that are completed.<b>
</b><span style="font-weight:normal">Individual
research studies are continuously updated and can
be accessed </span><a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/resource/research-studies/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b>here</b></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u>Rapid
survey of households on school re-opening
experience</u>: The questionnaire has been
finalized. It has been translated into Kannada and
will be pre-tested along with the software. The
survey will be done in Karnataka and Telangana.
Other surveys are planned for teachers and school
heads.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u>State
policy implementation tracker</u>. Data collection
formats were finalized. We are relying currently
largely on media reports. We hope to have a first
visualization by September 25. A method for
submitting information through a Google Form on the
website is being devised.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> <u>Guidelines
for state governments</u><b>. </b>This is under
preparation<b>.</b><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span><span style="font-weight:normal">Guidelines
issued by the Government of India and few state
governments is available <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/?s=guidelines"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr;
line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2;
widows: 2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"
align="left"> <span style="font-weight:normal">Media
articles relating to Covid and Education is
available <a
href="https://educationemergency.net/category/media-articles/"
moz-do-not-send="true">here</a>.</span><b> </b><span
style="font-weight:normal">Media articles,
Research Studies and other resources can be
searched on the education emergency site by
geography (</span><a
href="https://educationemergency.net/?s=Karnataka"
moz-do-not-send="true">state</a><span
style="font-weight:normal">).</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
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line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows:
2;margin-bottom:0.28cm; line-height:108%"> Please share
this update with others who would be interested in
participating in the NCEE. Please email <a
class="x_moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:info@educationemergency.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">info@educationemergency.net</a>
if you need any clarifications or would like to join any
group.</p>
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