The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the world’s largest advocacy group for students with disabilities and the gifted, is seeking assistance in developing a set of recommendations for funding of programs. Here’s their plea for help.
We are gearing up for next year’s CEC Federal Outlook for Exceptional Children and we need your help! As you may know, every year CEC produces the Federal Outlook for Exceptional Children as a way to provide members of Congress, their staff and officials at the Department of Education with CEC’s funding recommendations for special and gifted education. To give these facts and figures a human touch, we include stories of children who have benefitted from IDEA and the Javits program for students with gifts and talents…. The deadline for submitting stories is January 15, 2007.
Please ask members of your network to consider submitting a story on how funding from IDEA and the Javits program have benefitted students and/or educators. As Congress continues to drastically under fund special and gifted education, we are hoping stories can highlight the impact of federal funding (or lack there of) on schools across the country.
Stories should be only 250 words and we have included a template online to assist in writing these stories. Click on the link below for additional information:
http://www.cec.sped.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=7416&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm
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