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Briefs: Sweeney slams guest worker programs April 13, 2006 Inclusion conference is May 17-18 The 11th Conference on Inclusive Schools and Communities for Children and Youth will be held May 17-18 at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye Brook. Registration for both days is $180, and the deadline is April 24. No walk-in registrations will be accepted. The conference brings together practitioners, families, students, teachers, future teachers, teacher educators, researchers, advocates and education officials for two days of workshops and panel discussions. It is sponsored by the New York Higher Education Support Center for SystemsChange at Syracuse University and the Office of Vocational and Educational Services for Individuals with Disabilities at the State Education Department. To register, go online at www.systemschange.syr.edu or mail (with a check made payable to Syracuse University) to Melissa Price, New York Higher Education Support Center for SystemsChange, 150 Huntington Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-2340. For accommodations, contact the hotel directly at (914) 939-6300. Sweeney slams guest worker programs AFL-CIO President John Sweeney has criticized plans to expand guest worker programs for immigrants seeking to come to the U. S. In this, Sweeney parted company with Senate Democratic allies who pushed successfully to include them in broad-based immigration legislation, The Associated Press reported. "Guest worker programs are a bad idea and harm all workers," Sweeney said a day after the Senate Judiciary Committee cleared an immigration bill. "They cast workers into a perennial second-class status and unfairly put their fates into their employers' hands." However, Sweeney's statement in late March praised numerous otherprovisions of the overall immigration legislation, particularly giving illegal aliens an opportunity to apply for citizenship. The legislation includes two provisions that together could create room for nearly 2 million temporary workers. |
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