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11/15/2004 - NABE APPOINTS DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS DIRECTOR
Today NABE announced the appointments of Francisco Acosta as deputy director.
Acosta, an immigrant from El Salvador, has over 30 years experience in lobbying, grassroots, and coalition building. Most recently, he was employed as a grassroots lobbyist for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.
As a long-time participant in the community, Acosta's service includes: Hispanic advisor to the Maryland State Department of Education, Board member of CASA de Maryland, and a founder of Oscar Romero University in El Salvador.
At NABE, Acosta will work on legislative and policy issues, grassroots, and coalition building. Additionally, he will assist NABE's state affiliate organizations that work with school reform initiatives in their own states.
"I am delighted to have Francisco as part of our team," said James Crawford, Executive Director. "He will be instrumental in improving NABE's advocacy on the national and state levels and developing media strategies to combat negative images of bilingual education."
NABE is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting education excellence and equity for English language learners and to representing the professional educators who serve them. NABE members are teachers, administrators, college instructors, researchers, publishers, parents, students, and other advocates for language-minority children.
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