Policy/Advocacy

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

This week, NCLD published a set of resources in conjunction with seven other disability, civil rights, and social-emotional learning organizations on students with disabilities’ emotional and academic development during COVID-19.

On November 29th, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) will celebrate its 45th anniversary since President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act into law...

At its November meeting, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Board of Directors approved revisions to its Policy on Restraint and Seclusion, as well as its Policy on School Climate. These two...

President-Elect Joe Biden put education front and center during his campaign. This week, he continued to prioritize education, announcing the team in charge of the Administration’s transition at the Department of Education, with many familiar names on the roster.

This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee released its spending bills for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, five weeks after the fiscal year began. Senate Appropriators propose a modest increase to certain...