Policy/Advocacy

This week, FutureEd released a new resource that explores how Medicaid could help sustain mental health staff positions acquired using COVID relief money after ESSER III funds expires in 2024. The...

This week, the Network for Public Education released a new report titled “Public Schooling in America: Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools.” This new resource examines...

This week, the House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing to consider five bills, including the Rebuild America’s Schools Act and three mental health-related bills. The Rebuild America’s...

The Association of School Business Officials International (ASBOI) released a report with findings from a 2022 survey of U.S. school district finance leaders representing 150 school districts. The...

The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a call for public comment to improve and amend the current regulations implementation Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of...

This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that their Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) will be coordinating a new investment of nearly $25 million in school-based health services. This investment will target partnership between schools and local health centers to ensure students are receiving adequate physical and mental health treatment.

President Joe Biden released a statement in recognition of May as National Mental Health Awareness Month. In his statement, President Biden describes a nation in crisis as the rate of depression has more than tripled since 2019 and youth suicide and suicidal ideation has increased at an alarming rate.

This week, a group of legislators led by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), John Larson (D-CT), and Mark Takano (D-CA) introduced the Respect, Advancement, and Increasing Support for Educators (RAISE) Act.

Congress is currently gathering input from stakeholders as they begin to deliberate on Fiscal Year 2023 spending. Your voice is critical to this process. Please join us in sending your own letter to...

This week, CEC President Danielle M. Kovach, Ed.D sent a letter to appropriators requesting increased funding in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 for programs that support infants, toddler, children, and youth with disabilities and/or gifts and talents and the educators who serve them.