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Author Archives: Carrie Winslow
Call Congress to Support Gifted Education
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. Right now, Congress is negotiating which programs it will cut and which it will fund for the remaining six months of this fiscal year, which ends in September. As you know, the … Continue reading
Posted in CEC Legislative Action Center, Gifted and Talented, U.S. Congress
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CEC Survey Finds Special Education Impacted by Poor Economy
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. A new survey of CEC and CASE members shows that 90 percent of the respondents are experiencing or expect to endure such hardships as increased caseloads and class sizes, cuts in programs … Continue reading
Posted in CEC Legislative Action Center, IDEA School Aged, Opportunities for Advocacy, U.S. Congress
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CEC Announces Policy Initiatives for 112th Congress
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. CEC has released its Public Policy Agenda for the 112th U.S. Congress, created in collaboration with CEC’s Children and Youth Action Network (CAN). Read which special education issues and federal policies CEC will be … Continue reading
Posted in U.S. Congress
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Institute for Education Sciences Releases Funding Announcements for Research and Development Center Competitions
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. The U.S. Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute for Education Sciences, has released its fiscal year 2012 funding announcements for grant competitions in Research and Development Centers. The Special Education Research … Continue reading
Posted in U.S. Department of Education
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Members of Congress Call for Maintaining Gifted Ed Funding; Urge Your Congressional Delegation to Join the Effort
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. Last week, key members of Congress initiated a campaign to preserve funding for the only federal program dedicated to supporting the nation’s three million students with gifts and talents, the Jacob Javits … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, CEC Legislative Action Center, Gifted and Talented, U.S. Congress
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CEC Joins Broad Coalition in Call to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. Students with disabilities have long been disciplined, expelled, or otherwise removed from learning environments at higher rates than other populations. Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) also known as the Elementary and … Continue reading
Posted in NCLB/ESEA, U.S. Congress
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President to Sign Three Week Spending Bill; Includes No Cuts to Education
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. Today, President Obama will sign into law a funding bill which will keep the federal government running for another three weeks — until April 8th — thereby avoiding a government shutdown and … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, U.S. Congress
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Bill Introduced to fully fund ESEA and IDEA: More to come soon!
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. This has been a turbulent budget year to say the least. Yet, despite the seemingly constant discussion of cutting funding for education programs, some members of Congress are standing up and calling … Continue reading
Posted in NCLB/ESEA, U.S. Congress
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Obama Urges Congress to Fix NCLB, Maintain Federal Education Funding
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. President Barack Obama visited an Arlington, Va., middle school on Monday to urge Congress to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind in time for the 2011-12 school year. … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, NCLB/ESEA, U.S. Department of Education
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Tell the White House what’s working in education and what needs to change
From Carrie Winslow over on CEC Policy Insider. As part of the White House’s new “Advise the Advisor” program, President Obama’s chief advisor on domestic policy, Melody Barnes, has a few questions for parents, teachers, and students to answer. Ms. … Continue reading
Posted in Administration
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