Policy Insider

On Friday, 60 national education organizations—including CEC—penned a letter to House and Senate leadership urging Congress to provide $12 billion to schools and libraries to ensure that students and educators have Internet access and devices. Read more >

Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report as part of its COVID-19 monitoring and oversight duties established through the CARES Act highlighting the logistical and instructional challenges faced by English learners and students with disabilities after schools shifted to virtual learning last spring. Read more >

This week, CEC President Dr. Jennifer Lesh penned a letter to lead education appropriators urging them to provide a meaningful increase to IDEA for Fiscal Year 2021. Join us by sending your own letter through our Legislative Action Center! Read more >

On Thursday, House and Senate Democrats released the Keeping All Students Safe Act, a bill to ban seclusion and significantly limit restraint, including a ban on restraint practices that restrict children’s breathing, such as prone or supine restraint, in schools receiving federal funding. Read more >

On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Educator Job Fund Act, which would provide state and local school districts more than $260 billion to create a grant program focused on teacher pay, recruitment, and training. Read more >