"As I have travelled across the country visiting schools and classrooms and talking with teachers and parents, I have heard many questions about our plans at the U.S. Department of Education to support children with disabilities, their families, and the teachers who educate them and fight for them daily. To hear more about the issues affecting students with disabilities and their teachers, I asked CEC to contact members through an e-mail blast. Your response was overwhelming. Though CEC received more questions than we could possibly answer here, I have worked with your leadership to identify some of the central questions for educators of children with disabilities, and I have worked with my staff at the Department so that we can address them in this document. I would like to thank CEC members and all teachers of children with disabilities for their outstanding compassion and commitment and for the range of complex skills and talents you bring to teaching your students every day."
Posted on Mon, May. 30, 2011
Teachers give a gold star to a free-for-all education camp
By Adrienne Lu
Inquirer Staff Writer
For many teachers, the phrase professional development conjures up mandatory, snooze-inducing, school-sponsored lectures.
EdCamp, an "unconference" for educators that was conceived in the Philadelphia region last year, was designed to be the exact opposite: the free events are participant-driven and attendance is strictly voluntary.
"TITLE II - PUTTING WORKERS BACK ON THE JOB WHILE REBUILDING AND MODERNIZING AMERICA
Subtitle A - Veterans Hiring Preferences
Sec. 201. Returning Heroes and Wounded Warriors Work Opportunity Tax Credits
Subtitle B - Teacher Stabilization
Sec. 202. Purpose
Sec. 203. Grants for the Outlying Areas and the Secretary of the Interior; Availability of Funds.
Sec. 204. State Allocation
Sec. 205. State Application
Sec. 206. State Reservation and Responsibilities
Sec. 207. Local Educational Agencies
Sec. 208. Early Learning
Sec. 209. Maintenance of Effort
Sec. 210. Reporting
Sec. 211. Definitions
Sec. 212. Authorization of Appropriations
Subtitle C - First Responder Stabilization
Sec. 213. Purpose
Sec. 214. Grant Program
Sec. 215. Appropriations
Subtitle D - School Modernization
Part I - Elementary and Secondary Schools
Sec. 221. Purpose
Sec. 222. Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 223. Allocation of Funds
Sec. 224. State Use of Funds
Sec. 225. State and Local Applications
Sec. 226. Use of Funds
Sec. 227. Private Schools
Sec. 228. Additional Provisions
Part II - Community College Modernization
Sec. 229. Federal assistance for Community College Modernization"