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Here you will find information on legislative events that impact education policy and more. CASE encourages it's membership to take an active role in these process through education, email alerts, and position statements. CASE is a recognized leader in advocacy for special education policy. CASE along with CEC has a long history of success in impacting this country's policy and legislation in the special education. Each summer during July, CASE sponsors a Special Education Leadership Seminar in Washington. Participants experience guided practice sessions on how to interact with legislators and spend time "On the Hill" practicing these new skills.

CASE Sends Comment on SPP/APR Friday December 16, 2011

Once again, CASE leadership has taken a stand and sent comment on an important issues to our members. The OSEP proposal to change IDEA State Performance Plan and Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) had a deadline for comments on December 16. The CASELegislative Committee under the direction of Christina Lebo, along with the CASE Executive Committee and Legislative Consultant, Myrna Mandlawitz, studied the proposal as well as the comments from other disability community leaders and associations to craft the CASE position. Thank you to all of these hardworking professionals for being our ACTIVE VOICE on all issues on the programing, education, and service to students, parents, and community in the area of Special Education!
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CASE 3-21-12 response to S2020 "Keeping All Students Safe Act" (Restraint and Seclusion Bill)
Restraint And Seclusion Legislation Letter (September 13, 2011)
CASE ESEA Recommendations (July 2011)
CASE Response to Senate Legislation on Physical Restraint and Seclusion in Schools

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School Districts' Perspectives on the Economic Stimulus Package: Teaching Jobs Saved in 2009-10 But Teacher Layoffs Loom for Next School Year

Today, the Center on Education Policy released the results from a spring of 2010 survey of a nationally representative sample of school districts. The purpose of the survey was to learn about districts' fiscal situation and how American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds have impacted them over the last year. CEP found that while the federal funds helped districts save or create teaching jobs and stabilize budgets, most districts expected to layoff teachers in the 2010-11 school year. The report also addresses districts' efforts to carryout ARRA's four reform areas, district uses of State Fiscal Stabilization Funds and supplemental Title I and IDEA funds, and problems faced by districts in implementing ARRA. School Districts' Perspectives on the Economic Stimulus Package: Teaching Jobs Saved in 2009-10 But Teacher Layoffs Loom for Next School Year is posted on the CEP Web site (www.cep-dc.org) under "What's New" and can be downloaded free-of-charge.

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Jobs Legislation - UPDATE From CEC and CASE

Over the last few weeks we have been updating you on the progress of much needed education jobs legislation. Thank you for all of your work on this important issue and for keeping your networks informed. We have had a great response from CEC members!! Despite all of our outreach, however, the Senate and House both left town last week without passing this much needed legislation. Thus, our work goes on! As our CAN Network, we are asking you to help us with some targeted advocacy.

House

The fiscally conservative Blue Dog coalition in the House is refusing to vote for this measure, despite the fact many of them supported it in December of 2009. We need your help targeting these members! Here is a list of important members to speak to: http://www.house.gov/melancon/BlueDogs/Member%20Page.html

If you live in one of these states, please encourage your network to go to CEC's Legislative Action Center and use our letter to encourage them to ask the House Appropriations Committee to include emergency funding for legislation now!

Senate

The Senate has also failed to pass this legislation. In the Senate, Senator Harkin is leading the charge with his introduction of S.3206 – legislation which would provide $23 billion for educator jobs. His bill, however, only has 29 cosponsors (people who have publically agreed to support it). The reality is we need 60 votes to pass this in the Senate, which means that we need the support of certain key Senators who can help influence others. Therefore, if you live in the following states, please encourage your network to reach out to their Senators and ask them to support this bill:

Alabama - Senator Shelby
Arkansas - Senators Lincoln and Pryor
Indiana - Senators Bayh and Lugar
Indiana - Senator Lugar
Louisiana - Senator Landrieu
Massachusetts - Senator Scott Brown
Maine - Senators Snowe and Collins
Missouri - Senators McCaskill and Bond
North Dakota - Senator Conrad
Nebraska - Senator Nelson
Ohio– Senator Voinovich
Virginia - Senators Warner and Webb
Wisconsin - Senators Feingold and Kohl

Send a letter to these targeted Senator asking them to co-sponsor this legislation and urge the Senate to address it immediately.

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We appreciate all that you do – together we can get this done! Remember they count every letter, email and call -- so every voice matters! Your efforts have paid off but we need to keep going!!

Thank you!
CEC Policy & Advocacy Team

CASE MEMBERS
A CALL TO ACTION-U.S. CASE Members!

Dear U.S. CASE members,

In December, 2009 two bills were introduced in Congress (H.R. 4247 and S.2860) entitled Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. We believe language similar to that in these bills will be included in the reauthorizations of ESEA and IDEA. Things appear to be moving quickly on this proposed legislation, so it is important CASE gets information to you quickly and that you act quickly in communicating with your Congressional representatives. An easy way to do this is to go the http://www.cec.sped.org, click on Policy and Advocacy at the top of the page, and then click on Legislative Action Center on the left side of the page. Scroll down the page to the section titled Congress and the President, enter your zip code, hit go, and you will have links to your 2 Senators and your Representative. The CASE voice is important. Make yours a part of that collective voice.

Emily Collins, Ph.D.
CASE President

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