Tonight, at 6pm the Senate is set to vote on the American Jobs Act. CEC supports this bill and urges all members to urge their Senators to join us and support S. 1660 - the American Jobs Act – save education jobs.
If enacted, this proposal will provide $30 billion to save and create jobs for educators in every state and help ensure that children and youth with disabilities and those with gifts and talents have the resources they need to succeed. To learn more, click here.
CEC’s members, like all Americans, have felt the brunt of this economic downturn and have witnessed its direct impact on the children and youth with disabilities and those with gifts and talents whom they serve. Layoffs have meant increased class sizes, fewer resources for technology and professional development, and fewer opportunities to provide students with a free appropriate public education.
CEC is especially pleased that the proposal includes the following in subtitles B and D in Title II:
- $30 billion to save some 280,000 jobs and support state and local efforts to retain, rehire, and hire early childhood, elementary, and secondary educators (including teachers, guidance counselors, classroom assistants, after-school personnel, tutors, and literacy and math coaches) to ensure that students are not shortchanged by education program cutbacks and eliminations and unreasonable class sizes.
- $30 billion proposed for school modernization to improve learning conditions for students in some 35,000 schools and capacity expansion at community colleges.
CEC urges Congress to pass the critical education provisions in the American Jobs Act. Without this investment, we risk letting our nation’s greatest asset – our children – languish in short-staffed, overcrowded, underfunded classrooms. Now is the time to invest in America’s future, support educators, and provide our children and youth with the resources they need to succeed.
Take action – contact your Senator about this important issue today!
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