Legislative Updates

I. Education Report for January 23rd from Washington Partners.

Be sure to make use of the bookmarks at the beginning of the attached report to help navigate your areas of interest. Highlights under each section include:

1. Budget and Appropriations
   -Despite tone of inauguration, struggle for consensus on stimulus package consumes Congress

Please see attached the Education Report for January 9th from Washington Partners.

Be sure to make use of the bookmarks at the beginning of the attached report to help navigate your areas of interest. Highlights under each section include:

1. Budget and Appropriations

Please find attached a four page summary from Washington Partners of Arne Duncan's confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Education.

Discussion topics included:

-Full Funding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
-Duncan's three major goals as Sec. of Education   --> read more »

Please see attached an informative memo from Washington Partners that looks ahead to the work of the 111th Congress, focusing on education-related legislation that may be taken up and likely key education policy issues that may be of interest to NCSS.

See bullets below for the structure and highlights of the report:

I. General Overview
-Rundown of the makeup of the new Congress   --> read more »

Please see the attached background sketch from Washington Partners of President-elect Obama's selection for Secretary of Education--the current Superintendent of Chicago public schools Arne Duncan.

Please see attached the Education Report for December 12th from Washington Partners.

Be sure to make use of the bookmarks at the beginning of the attached report to help navigate your areas of interest. Highlights under each section include:

1. Budget and Appropriations

Please see attached below the Education Report for December 5th from Washington Partners. Be sure to make use of the bookmarks at the beginning of the attached report to help navigate your areas of interest. Highlights under each section include:

1. Budget and Appropriations

-uncertainty over President-Elect's selection of the new Secretary of Education   --> read more »

NCSS recently sent the attached letter to the chairmen of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Subcommittee encouraging them, as they work toward finalizing the FY 2009 budget, to adequately invest in programs of interest and importance to social studies educators.

Please see the attached Legislative Watch List, a biweekly publication from Washington Partners that gives an overview of of legislation relating to education currently being considered by Congress.   --> read more »

Washington Partners has provided us with another extremely useful resource for looking ahead to advocacy in the next Congress. Be sure to take a minute to scan through the brief bios of newly elected members of Congress in the attached report.

These background summaries place particular emphasis on: