NASDSE Supports the $23 billion Jobs Fund
On May 17, 2010, NASDSE wrote to every member of Congress urging them to support an amendment to be offered by Senator Harkin to include $23 billion in FY 2010 emergency supplemental appropriations bill which would help stave off massive education jobs cuts that states and locals are currently experiencing. To read NASDSE's letter, click here.
NASDSE’s “Cheat Sheet” on ARRA funding
NASDSE has developed a “Cheat Sheet” on ARRA funding as a tool to keep track of all the grants, money, timing and status of the many moving parts of the ARRA. To read the cheat sheet, click here.
NASDSE Supports “Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010” (the Jobs Bill)
NASDSE Supports H.R. 3578, the Everyone Deserves Unconditional Access to Education Act
On September 17, 2009, NASDSE wrote a letter in support of the "Everyone Deserves Unconditional Access to Education Act" (full funding bill for IDEA). To read NASDSE’s letter, click here.
NASDSE Testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
On March 19, 2009 Mary Watson, Director of the Exceptional Children Division for the Department of Public Instruction for North Carolina and NASDSE President testified before the Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor/HHS/Education on the importance of IDEA funding. To read NASDSE’s testimony, click here. |