• CEC Web Seminars Offer Solutions For Special Education Staff
• Comments on Proposed IDEA Regulations Are Due In Nearly Two Weeks!
• CEC Advocacy Toolkit Now Online
• NECTAC Issues New Information Available for IDEA Part C

CEC Web Seminars Offer Solutions For Special Education Staff

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Technology

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Comments on Proposed IDEA Regulations Are Due In Nearly Two Weeks!

CEC encourages everyone interested in the reauthorization of IDEA to submit comments on the proposed regulations to the Department of Education by the September 6 deadline. You can email your comments to ED at ideacomments@ed.gov . In addition, please email a copy of your comments to Deb Zeigler, Associate Executive Director Policy and Communication Services, debz@cec.sped.org, and to Dan Blair, Senior Director for Public Policy, danb@cec.sped.org.

CEC has provided initial comments on selected issues in the proposed IDEA regulations. In addition, we will be providing further, more extensive comments to the Department of Education before the September 6 deadline. We will let you know when our final comments are available on our Web site.

You can read CEC’s comments to date at http://www.cec.sped.org/cec_bn/cec_comments_regs.html .

You can also read side-by-side comparisons of selected issues in the proposed regulations and the IDEA ’97 regulations at http://www.cec.sped.org/cec_bn/side-by-sides.html .

CEC Advocacy Toolkit Now Online

CEC has released its August Advocacy Toolkit to help its members urge their elected officials in Congress to increase funding for IDEA, Javits grants for gifted and talented students, and education in general, when Congress votes on education-funding legislation in September. The Toolkit is designed to assist CEC members in contacting and meeting with members of Congress while they are at home during their August 2005 recess, and provides all the materials needed to effectively communicate CEC's message to elected officials and the local media. You can find the Toolkit on CEC's Web site at http://www.cec.sped.org/pp/pdfs/august_advocacy_toolkit_v2.pdf.

In addition, email your member of Congress on the latest issues facing students with disabilities and/or giftedness in only minutes by using the CEC’s online Legislative Action Center! Just visit http://capwiz.com/cek/home/ to email your member of Congress by personalizing a letter CEC has already written.

NECTAC Issues New Information Available for IDEA Part C

The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC) – a program funded by the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs – recently released Part C Updates, containing new information on how IDEA reauthorization affects Part C program administration for children from birth to five years. The Update includes a variety of resources, including implementation information and data trends. Visit the NECTAC website to access online resources and publications, http://www.nectac.org/