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incentive program.
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Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Behavior Incentive System
B.U.G. stands for Being Unusually Good.
This is the perfect system when your class needs a new
incentive program.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Opposition to cutting education funding that benefits Students on the Autism Spectrum
Recession, Budget Cuts, Schools Closing, Educators layoffs and firings, uncertified and inexperienced Teachers and Paraprofessionals, archaic teaching tools and resources, limited or underfunded training are a few of the tantamount concerns regarding the appropriate educating of Students with Autism.
We've included some videos about concerns of any Parent who is in school. Why? Often, families with kids who have special needs and/or disabilities have similar needs + specific concerns.
Let's start with a current release:
The video and transcript of this compelling report on the necessity of appropriate education schools, supports, services and resources for Students on the Autism Spectrum. William's parents concerns express the questions and issues that many families are facing when it comes to their child's schooling.
Updated
Autism expert warns against cutting education funding - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
We've included some videos about concerns of any Parent who is in school. Why? Often, families with kids who have special needs and/or disabilities have similar needs + specific concerns.
Let's start with a current release:
The video and transcript of this compelling report on the necessity of appropriate education schools, supports, services and resources for Students on the Autism Spectrum. William's parents concerns express the questions and issues that many families are facing when it comes to their child's schooling.
Updated
Updated
A leading expert on autism is warning of the long-term costs if funds to assist the education of children with autism spectrum disorder continue to be cut.
Source: Lateline
Autism expert warns against cutting education funding - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Teachers care about the affects of the lack of sufficient education funding, too.
'Rethink Autism' organization has deliberately encouraged Parents to prepare for times when Students on the Autism Spectrum will face limitations in funding, resources, treatments and care.
When after-school programs are underfunded, some of our Autistic kids who are 'mainstreamed' and can tolerate 'full inclusion' are affected, too.
Will we go back to the days when Hawaii considered 'no school Fridays'? How devastating this will be for Parents who's child depends on school-based therapies and individualized education programs.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
completing a Summer of virtual 'Homeroom' time
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose,” read former NFL player Brian Mitchell during the final installment of ED’s Let’s Read! Let’s Move! summer series on Monday. Mitchell read Dr. Seuss’s popular book Oh, The Places You’ll Go!, which encourages children to reach for their dreams. Each event supported First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative, which promotes healthy eating and an active lifestyle, while also encouraging summer reading and adult participation.
Cydney Adams is a student at the University of Georgia and an intern in ED’s Office of Communications and Outreach.()
Watch the (YouTube) video: 'Let's Read, Let's Move - July 30th, 2012 -
Brian Mitchell, Cecilia Muñoz, and Secretary Arne Duncan read to children at the U.S. Department of Education on July 30th, 2012. [Click here for an alternate version of the video with an accessible player. uploaded by usedgov on Jul 30, 2012]
Here are more education articles for Students, Parents, Teachers, Counselors,Librarians, Innovators, Collaborators, Policymakers and anyone interested in education. View the videos. Check the dates for programs registrations/deadlines. Incorporate concepts in your personal, professional and community development. Notate who wrote and contributed to the articles, many of whom are 'Guest Bloggers'.
Here are more education articles for Students, Parents, Teachers, Counselors,Librarians, Innovators, Collaborators, Policymakers and anyone interested in education. View the videos. Check the dates for programs registrations/deadlines. Incorporate concepts in your personal, professional and community development. Notate who wrote and contributed to the articles, many of whom are 'Guest Bloggers'.
Coming to you Live from Washington, D.C…the Bullying Prevention Summit! Cross-posted from StopBullying.gov.Next week, leaders of non-profit and corporate organizations engaged in anti-bullying work will join researchers, parents and students to participate in the third Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit on August 6th and 7th in Washington, D.C. It’s important for us to hear the voices of those impacted by bullying from around the country and to share the knowledge we’ve gained to stop bullying. So for the first time this year, we will be livestreaming the entire Summit and engaging the at-home audience through Twitter and Facebook.
Since we hosted the first Summit in August, 2010, attention and efforts around bullying have taken on new importance and urgency. We are starting to turn a corner from thinking of bullying as “kids being kids,” to understanding the real and serious consequences bullying may have.
by Deborah Temkin is a Research and Policy Coordinator for Bullying Prevention Initiatives at the Department of Education ( ) - August 3, 2012
Here are the top three winners(with Vimeo videos):
FIRST PLACE: Congratulations to Blinktower, a creative agency based in Cape Town, South Africa
SECOND PLACE: Congratulations to Laura Rachfalski and her team. Laura is an artist, videographer and photographer from Philadelphia.
THIRD PLACE: Congratulations to Nadia Paola Mireles Torres and her collaborators from the design firm Funktionell. Nadia has also made all the video assets available for download and reuse under a CC BY intellectual property license.
Click here for an alternate version of the video with an accessible player. July 18, 2012
Education Innovation Clusters: Accelerating Innovation Through Regional Partnerships - by Richard Culatta is deputy director of the Office of Educational Technology
At a time when advances in technology and digital media hold the potential to dramatically reshape the way we approach instruction, assessment, and research, many barriers still continue to slow innovation in learning, teaching and educational technologies. Accelerating the pace of innovation requires collaboration between educators, researchers, and commercial partners to work through these problems and create a shared research and development ecosystem. More information and elements of effective clusters can be found on the education innovation cluster website. July 16, 2012 As Teaching Ambassador Fellow Greg Mullenholz ends his tenure at ED, he reflects on what he has heard from teachers and principals about effective school leadership. July 13, 2012
Reading Recovery: i3 Grantee Has Immediate Impact on Young Readers When young children struggle to read, they can quickly fall behind their classmates in a number of subjects. Teachers with the 27-year old Reading Recovery program work one-on-one with 1st graders to rapidly reverse that descent, developing tailored strategies that respond to individual students’ unique hurdles in processing text.
Magnetic letters are often used in Reading Recovery lessons as children learn how letters and words work.
“Over the past few weeks, I have seen such a change in my students,” said Amarisa Fuentes, an Elkins Elementary teacher in Fort Worth. “They came to me knowing only a few words and now they are reading and taking risks without fear of failure.” Thanks to Texas Woman’s University’s $3.7 million share of an Investing in Innovation (i3) grant(one of 19 colleges nationwide that is benefitting from a $46 million i3 grant that ED awarded), her school is offering the early literacy intervention program for the first time.After having a tough time in kindergarten, 1st grader Jaylen Gamble “likes to show off by reading to everybody,” said Jaylen’s grandfather Dan Cunningham. “My son is now reading everything he sees – magazines, stuff on cell phones….even the back of our bottle of bubble bath,” said Brandie Poindexter of her son, Ikiam Pass. “I’m so proud of him.” “One parent told me he had never seen his child make so much progress in a short amount of time,” said Fuentes, in describing the impact of Reading Recovery in her class. “Tears came to his eyes as he watched his son read a book for the first time.” July 12, 2012
Open Data for College Affordability and Better Student Outcomes
Cross-posted from the White House Blog.
The challenge to build innovative education tools and services, for potential demonstration at the Datapalooza, is open to everyone. Information about the data sets presented at the Data Jam is available here. And if you’d like more details about the Education Dataplaooza or if you have an idea or an example of a private-sector innovation (a product, service, website, app, or feature) that uses open education data, please send an email to edtech@ed.gov.
The challenge to build innovative education tools and services, for potential demonstration at the Datapalooza, is open to everyone. Information about the data sets presented at the Data Jam is available here. And if you’d like more details about the Education Dataplaooza or if you have an idea or an example of a private-sector innovation (a product, service, website, app, or feature) that uses open education data, please send an email to edtech@ed.gov.
Summer Seminar Gets Personal
Recently teachers from across the country participated in a summer seminar to grapple with an emerging hot topic in education: how to personalize learning in a classroom full of diverse students with varying interests, skills and learning styles. STEM teacher Matt McCrea took participants through strategies he has used successfully when personalizing instruction for his middle school math and engineering classes. Special education teacher and technology specialist Patrick Ledesma discussed what teachers can do to prepare for personalizing learning and how teacher leaders can help other teachers in their school to design effective personalized learning. Click to watch the second summer seminar on personalized learning.
Leaders@ED: Alexa Posny, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
“There was no field of special education until the 1970s,” she said. “What amazes me is that in just over three decades, a sea change has occurred. In 1975, we excluded 2 million kids with disabilities from school doors. Now we serve more than 7 million kids with disabilities in the public schools. It’s one of the most valuable things I’ve lived through.”
White House Rural Council’s Health IT Initiative Helps Community Colleges Tailor Programs to Workforce Needs
Leaders@ED: Alexa Posny, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
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Assistant Secretary Alexa Posny at the 2011 Special Olympics
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Closing the Morrill Act Gap
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act, a law that set a foundation for our nation’s public university system by establishing the first set of land-grant universities. And while some of America’s greatest institutions of higher education were created by the act, it is worth reminding Americans that not one but two Morrill Acts were enacted in the last half of the 19th Century.
Students Provide Feedback on ED’s “Blueprint for Transforming CTE”
Secretary Arne Duncan and Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education Brenda Dann-Messier recently met with student members from Career and Technical Student Organizations to discuss the department’s Blueprint for Transforming Career and Technical Education (CTE). The discussion is part of the ongoing Student Voices Series where students regularly engage with the Secretary of Education and Senior Staff to receive recommendations on current programs and future policies.
White House Rural Council’s Health IT Initiative Helps Community Colleges Tailor Programs to Workforce Needs
By John White, Judy Murphy, and Thomas Morris
With a major workforce transition underway in many rural hospitals and health clinics, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted a conference call with staff from nearly 80 rural community colleges recently to discuss federal resources available to expand training for health information technology workers.
John White is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach at the U.S. Department of Education. Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, is Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Tom Morris is Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Challenge are at tft.challenge.gov.
While funding is a consistent issue in education, Duncan has learned through his own experiences – beginning with his mother’s efforts — that money is not the ultimate solution.
“Some people think that the only way to fix education is to fix poverty first,” he said. “I think the only way to fix poverty is to fix education.”
Watch a video of the session.
–Julie Ewart is the Director of Communications and Outreach in ED’s Chicago Regional Office.
Presidential Scholars Recognized in Washington
Scholars take a bow at the U.S. Presidential Scholars for the Arts Performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Click here to see a list of this year’s U.S. Presidential Scholars, and read more about the Presidential Scholars program.
President Obama designated June Great Outdoors Month to encourage Americans to take advantage of our rich, natural and cultural outdoor resources while being active outdoors. Fortunately, the first group of U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools provides us many examples of innovative approaches to getting students active and learning outdoors year-round.
The Top 10 Ways School Counselors Can Support Teachers
School Garden Plants Sense of Community
Leaders of the eight co-sponsoring organizations discuss their support for collaboratively transforming the teaching profession. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Education.
Cross-posted from the White House Blog.
Last week, state and district education leaders from across the country traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to share their stories, strategies, and best practices around a topic in education that seldom sees the spotlight: labor-management collaboration. For a second time, the U.S. Department of Education partnered with national education organizations, including the American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, Council of the Great City Schools, Council of Chief State School Officers, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Education Association, and National School Boards Association, to host a major convening centered on changing the way that school administrators, board members, and union leaders work together to improve teaching and learning.
With a major workforce transition underway in many rural hospitals and health clinics, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted a conference call with staff from nearly 80 rural community colleges recently to discuss federal resources available to expand training for health information technology workers.
- freely download from the National Training & Dissemination Center (NTDC) Web site.
John White is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach at the U.S. Department of Education. Judy Murphy, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, FAAN, is Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Tom Morris is Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Secretary’s Mom Inspires National Service at Chicago Conference
Secretary Duncan discusses his hero -- his mom -- with CNN's Soledad O'Brien (left) and Wendy Spencer, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service at the National Conference of Volunteering and Service in Chicago on June 19.
Challenge are at tft.challenge.gov.
While funding is a consistent issue in education, Duncan has learned through his own experiences – beginning with his mother’s efforts — that money is not the ultimate solution.
“Some people think that the only way to fix education is to fix poverty first,” he said. “I think the only way to fix poverty is to fix education.”
Watch a video of the session.
–Julie Ewart is the Director of Communications and Outreach in ED’s Chicago Regional Office.
Presidential Scholars Recognized in Washington
Scholars take a bow at the U.S. Presidential Scholars for the Arts Performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
More than 140 of the country’s brightest high school seniors ...
Read Secretary Duncan’s Presidential Scholars speech.
A young boy examines an earthworm. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And while schools may place an emphasis on outdoor, hands-on learning, parents can also teach these skills in their own garden or with a backyard campout.
President Obama designated June Great Outdoors Month to encourage Americans to take advantage of our rich, natural and cultural outdoor resources while being active outdoors. Fortunately, the first group of U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools provides us many examples of innovative approaches to getting students active and learning outdoors year-round. The Top 10 Ways School Counselors Can Support Teachers
Editor’s note: We met middle school counselor Ian Brodie at a recent RESPECT roundtable discussion at the U.S. Department of Education. He writes to offer tips for teachers on how to form partnerships with counselors.
- Get more free resources on the ED-GRS resources page.
Madison Killen is a student at the University of California Berkeley and an intern in ED’s Office of Communications and Outreach With summer vacation started or on its way, as parents or guardians, it’s important to ensure that reading remains on your child’s schedule even while school is out. Reading over the summer is important not only because it improves literacy and language skills, but also because it prevents what has become known as the “summer slide”—a regression in reading ability.
At Cherry Hill Alternative High School in Cherry Hill, N.J., great educations are made with soil, seeds, and sunshine.
Impact in Place: ED Releases Report on “Place-Based” Strategy
Impact in Place: ED Releases Report on “Place-Based” Strategy
... the Department of Education has adopted a “place-based” approach – recognizing that the federal government can support strategies to achieve better outcomes for students and families by taking into account where investments are made and how those investments interact with other resources, policies, and programs. On Friday, the Department released a report on these efforts titled “Impact in Place: A Progress Report on the Department of Education’s Place-Based Strategy.”
Secretary Duncan announced in September 2010, that 21 nonprofit organizations and institutions of higher education would receive Promise Neighborhoods planning grants.
For the first time, the Department is explicitly using “place” as the unit of analysis, not just the set of programs that the agency funds.
Learn more about Promise Neighborhoods, see a list of last year’s winners and read Secretary Duncan’s speech announcing the program.
The report explains how the Department is able to better align its work with other levels of government to address common challenges.
State and District Education Leaders Collaborate to Transform the Teaching Profession
Leaders of the eight co-sponsoring organizations discuss their support for collaboratively transforming the teaching profession. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Education.Last week, state and district education leaders from across the country traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to share their stories, strategies, and best practices around a topic in education that seldom sees the spotlight: labor-management collaboration. For a second time, the U.S. Department of Education partnered with national education organizations, including the American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, Council of the Great City Schools, Council of Chief State School Officers, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Education Association, and National School Boards Association, to host a major convening centered on changing the way that school administrators, board members, and union leaders work together to improve teaching and learning.
All of these articles and more are featured in 'Homeroom - The Official Blog Of The U.S. Department of Education.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
But it’s in their IEP
Whether you're still enjoying summertime, on vacation, prepping for back to school or have already gone BACK TO SCHOOL like some Students and Teachers in Oklahoma, you're should read this.
Hopefully, whatever stage you are in this summer, you took time to review your child's IEP. Hopefully, Teachers will take time to review their Students IEPs BEFORE THE STUDENTS GO BACK TO SCHOOL.
Preparation, Collaboration, Positivity and Consistency is essential keys to an 'Enjoyable School Year'. "All children can learn." Similar to the belief 'it takes a village to raise a child', then,
"it takes a Collaborative Team to successfully implement an appropriate IEP."
(an Enjoyable School Year principle)
Special Education & IEP Advisor Dennise Goldberg reflectly admonishes us all to get ready for the school year. With a relatable titiel, Goldberg, shares the "top responses heard after I uttered the words, “but it’s in their IEP”, TIPS are also provided."
Five little words, made up of only sixteen letters that every parent has uttered at one point or another if their child has an IEP. Who we said it to isn’t as important as the fact that we have all said it. I have written in the past about my Top Ten Special Education Pet Peeves and the Top Ten Most Ridiculous Comments I Ever Heard at an IEP but it’s time to discuss a new topic. Below are the top responses heard after I uttered the words, “but it’s in their IEP.”
Furthermore, Goldberg offers an opportunity to candidly share
What responses have you received after you uttered those five little words, “But it’s in their IEP.” Add them to the comment section below and as they come in I will include them above.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Apply for 5 Award Programs focusing on Inclusive Education, Integrated Employment, Significant Disabilities, Positive Images in Media and Supportive Relationships
TASH- Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities
Nominations for the 2012 TASH Awards Program are now being accepted. To ensure consideration of your nomination, please return the award form to TASH by Thursday, September 13, 2012.
Each year, TASH honors those whose contributions have advanced equity, opportunity and inclusion for people with disabilities, and whose actions set a high standard for human rights every day. Recipients will be acknowledged during the 2012 TASH Conference, November 28-December 1, in Long Beach, California. TASH invites you to review the following award types and submit your nomination for consideration. The following award types are available, and descriptions and links to award forms are provided below:
Larry J. Brumond Supportive Relationship -
This award annually honors two individuals who have maintained a mutually supportive relationship for at least five years in which the dreams and aspirations of the support recipient are supported in that person’s chosen home and community.
TASH shared a link.
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TASH | Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities - since 1975 - We Want You to SHARE TASH! Help us SHARE TASH with those who can benefit from and contribute to our vision for equity, opportunity and inclusion.
Support the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilties - July 26, 2012 Update 2: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities! The treaty may now be brought to the Senate floor for ratification! This is a critical step toward ratification, but please continue to urge your Senators to support the CRPD!
Nominations for the 2012 TASH Awards Program are now being accepted. To ensure consideration of your nomination, please return the award form to TASH by Thursday, September 13, 2012.
Each year, TASH honors those whose contributions have advanced equity, opportunity and inclusion for people with disabilities, and whose actions set a high standard for human rights every day. Recipients will be acknowledged during the 2012 TASH Conference, November 28-December 1, in Long Beach, California. TASH invites you to review the following award types and submit your nomination for consideration. The following award types are available, and descriptions and links to award forms are provided below:
The purpose this award is to honor the important and courageous contributions of individuals and school districts in advancing inclusive education and equitable opportunities for students pre-school through grade 12, particularly those with the most significant disabilities and support needs. Nominations are requested for individuals, schools and districts that are consistent with TASH’s mission regarding inclusive education. Awards categories include: School District, Administrator, Teacher, School, and Advocate/Family/Self-Advocate
This award is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to increasing access to community, integrated employment for persons with significant disabilities. The focus of the award may be related either to a lifelong body of work or to work performed within a current year. Recipients may include employment professionals, researchers, state agency personnel, professors, legislators, family members or employers.
This award is presented to a doctoral student enrolled in a program in education or a related field, and who demonstrates potential for leadership in teaching, scholarship, and service on behalf of people with significant disabilities. The individual needs to have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to working in partnership with people with disabilities. The Alice H. Hayden Emerging Leader Award is available in the following award categories: Leadership in Teaching, Leadership in Scholarship and Research, Leadership in Service
The TASH Positive Images in the Media Award honors presentations in print, film or other forms of media that promote positive images of people with disabilities in all aspects of community life. Awardees are recognized for their contribution to the elimination of stereotypes by portraying people with disabilities and their lives accurately with recognition of the complexities of being human. Awardees are requested to have their material available in alternative formats that are optimally accessible to all viewers and participants.
This award annually honors two individuals who have maintained a mutually supportive relationship for at least five years in which the dreams and aspirations of the support recipient are supported in that person’s chosen home and community.
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TASH | Equity, Opportunity and Inclusion for People with Disabilities - since 1975 - We Want You to SHARE TASH! Help us SHARE TASH with those who can benefit from and contribute to our vision for equity, opportunity and inclusion. 
TASH -"Offers Free Parent Guide on Restraint and Seclusion - ‘Shouldn’t School Be Safe?’ is a free resource developed for parents and by parents that offers insight and advice to respond to and prevent restraint and seclusion.
Support the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilties - July 26, 2012 Update 2: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities! The treaty may now be brought to the Senate floor for ratification! This is a critical step toward ratification, but please continue to urge your Senators to support the CRPD!How Sequestration could affect your child's Education -- 'Testimony of Secretary Duncan before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee | U.S. Department of Education '
"Sequestration sends a signal that the United States is backtracking on its commitment to reform and its long-standing promise to promote equity through Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA."
Fiscal year 2013 is a little more than two months away and sequestration kicks in three months after that on January 2nd -- so it's critically important that we – and the American people – fully understand the consequences of sequestration and take steps to avoid it now.
The sequestration will put at risk all that we've accomplished in education and weaken programs that help children, serve families, send young people and adults to college and make the middle class American dream possible.
Let's begin with education:
Sequestration sends a signal that the United States is backtracking on its commitment to reform and its long-standing promise to promote equity through Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA.
Based on the Congressional Budget Office's projection that sequestration will reduce programs by 7.8 percent, here's what we know will be at risk:
Read Secretary Duncan's full testimony:
Testimony of Secretary Duncan before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee | U.S. Department of Education
July 25, 2012
Related articles and info.:
Click here to read Secretary Duncan’s testimony.
Related articles:
The cuts are expected to begin taking effect in January under a process known as sequestration which was triggered last year when Congress failed to reach a budget deal. Under the plan, education programs as well as most other federal initiatives will be subject to an across-the-board spending reduction of about 8 percent.
Unless Congress acts, special education cuts would impact schools starting in the fall of 2013, Duncan said.
“We all know that there are steps we can take so we don’t have to start down this path that puts so many critical services to students, families and communities at risk,” Duncan told senators. “As everyone knows, sequestration does not have to happen and should not happen.”
If the budget cuts go through as planned, federal spending on special education would fall to 14.5 percent, the lowest rate seen since 2001, according to an estimate from the Council for Exceptional Children, a national group that lobbies on behalf of special educators. (July 26, 2012)
Fiscal year 2013 is a little more than two months away and sequestration kicks in three months after that on January 2nd -- so it's critically important that we – and the American people – fully understand the consequences of sequestration and take steps to avoid it now.
The sequestration will put at risk all that we've accomplished in education and weaken programs that help children, serve families, send young people and adults to college and make the middle class American dream possible.
Let's begin with education:
Sequestration sends a signal that the United States is backtracking on its commitment to reform and its long-standing promise to promote equity through Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA.
Based on the Congressional Budget Office's projection that sequestration will reduce programs by 7.8 percent, here's what we know will be at risk:
Read Secretary Duncan's full testimony:
Testimony of Secretary Duncan before the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee | U.S. Department of Education
July 25, 2012
Related articles and info.:
...Secretary of Education Arne Duncan testified on Capitol Hill about the impact of budget cuts called sequestration. Sequestration would mandate across-the-board cuts to the federal budget that will go into effect in January if Congress doesn’t act. While a lot of attention has been given to impeding cuts to defense, Secretary Duncan testified about the impact the cuts would on all government services and programs.
“Education, defense, public safety and all other federal agencies would indiscriminately cut services that are essential to every state and community,” Duncan said.
country.
- Title I funding would be cut by $1.1 billion, cutting off funding to more than 4,000 schools serving an estimated 1.8 million disadvantaged students. The jobs of more than 15,000 teachers and aides would be at risk.
- Funding for special education would be reduced by $900 million. That could translate into the layoffs of more than 10,000 teachers, aides, and other staff who provide essential instruction and other support to 6.6 million children with disabilities.
- Up to almost 100,000 low-income children would be denied access to the Head Start program, which is critical to preparing them for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Click here to read Secretary Duncan’s testimony.
Related articles:
The potential cuts to special education "could translate into the layoffs of more than 10,000 teachers, aides, and other staff who provide essential instruction and other support to 6.6 million children with disabilities," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified this week.
By Harkin's estimations, based on a 7.8 percent across-the-board cut, IDEA grants to states would be reduced by $903 million. Another $64 million would be cut out of special education spending for preschool students, infants, and toddlers. Special education research, already cut in recent years, would lose another $4 million, the Council for Exceptional Children says.
Across-the-board federal budget cuts could take a nearly $1 billion bite out of federal special education spending, with the bulk of that representing state grants for the education of school-age children with disabilities.
The automatic cuts, or sequestration, could come in January if Congress doesn't come up with a way to put the country on firmer fiscal footing, as my colleague Alyson Klein explains over at the Politics K-12 blog.
'EnjoyHi5Autism' pinned an excerpt of U.S. Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan's testimony in 'Educating & Learning & Teaching' board on Pinterest.
"The sequestration will put at risk all that we have accomplished in education.I don't think we have a lot of flexibility here," Duncan said of potential cuts. "Regardless of impact,...it's a horrendous way to think of budget choices." U.S.Education Secretary Arnie Duncan U.S.Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related Services.
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- Title I funding would be cut by $1.1 billion, cutting off funding to more than 4,000 schools serving an estimated 1.8 million disadvantaged students. The jobs of more than 15,000 teachers and teacher aides would be at risk. Students would lose access to individual instruction, afterschool programs, and other interventions that help close achievement gaps.
- Funding for special education would be reduced by $900 million. That could translate into the layoffs of more than 10,000 teachers, aides, and other staff who provide essential instruction and other support to 6.6 million children with disabilities in every one of your states.
- On January 2nd, schools serving our military families through the Impact Aid program would have immediate cuts to their budgets. For example, the Killeen Independent School District in Texas would lose $4.6 million – directly affecting 18,000 children from military families. Military families make so many sacrifices for our country. Their children deserve a world-class education.
- In higher education, the Department would need to slash spending on contracts to support the processing and origination of student loans, which could cause delays that will hurt students as they make decisions about college and could reduce services for borrowers seeking to repay their loans.
- Up to almost 100,000 low-income children would be denied access to the Head Start program, which is critical to preparing them for success in kindergarten and beyond.
- 80,000 children would lose access to high quality care through the Child Care Development Block Grant.
The cuts are expected to begin taking effect in January under a process known as sequestration which was triggered last year when Congress failed to reach a budget deal. Under the plan, education programs as well as most other federal initiatives will be subject to an across-the-board spending reduction of about 8 percent.
Unless Congress acts, special education cuts would impact schools starting in the fall of 2013, Duncan said.
“We all know that there are steps we can take so we don’t have to start down this path that puts so many critical services to students, families and communities at risk,” Duncan told senators. “As everyone knows, sequestration does not have to happen and should not happen.”
If the budget cuts go through as planned, federal spending on special education would fall to 14.5 percent, the lowest rate seen since 2001, according to an estimate from the Council for Exceptional Children, a national group that lobbies on behalf of special educators. (July 26, 2012)
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