Advocacy

CCBD is proud to announce our Position Summary Paper on Disproportionality. It is available to download from our Advocacy - Position and Policy page and to distribute immediately. An abstract of the position paper is available via the download link above.

The Executive Committee of CCBD recognizes and thanks Advocacy and Governmental Relations Committee members Russ Skiba and Susan Albrecht (Chair), and Dan Losen of the Civil Rights Project for primary authorship of drafts of this position summary.

Budget 2013

The federal Fiscal Year 2013 (FY 2013) budget process began with the release of the president's proposed budget in mid-February.  The next step in the process is action in the House and Senate budget committees on each chamber's version of a budget resolution.  The budget resolution is a non-binding bill that states spending priorities for FY 2013, which begins on October 1, 2012, and the bottom line amount given to the appropriations, or spending, committees to fund all federal programs.

Download the proposed Paul Ryan budget here.

The Council for Exceptional Children announced on April 6, 2011 that legislation providing guidance and accountability for the use of restraint and seclusion in schools was reintroduce in the House of Representatives today.  CCBD with CEC led the way in drafting the language of this proposed legislation which passed the previous House by a bi-partisan vote.  The language just introduced is similar in content and has the support of CEC and CCBD.

We received bad news on Friday, February 11, 2011: The House of Representatives has introduced a bill (known as a Continuing Resolution) that would cut IDEA Part B funding by over $500 million. 

Federal funding is confusing even when Congress runs on schedule and everyone sings "kumbaya!" What we are witnessing right now appears closer to chaos than calm.

A Brief Civics Lesson

CCBD joins 850 other organizations in support of increased finding for the FY 2008. Below is the letter that was sent to Washington:

CCBD has recently authors a Position Paper on Restraint and Seclusion as well as a White Paper on use of restraint and a White Paper on the use of seclusion.

Reece Peterson, Ph.D., Professor of Special Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a member of CCBD’s Advocacy and Governmental Relations Committee, provided key testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor in response to a recent report of the Government Accountability Office on injuries and deaths of students in America’s schools from the use of physical restraint and seclusion.