General Legislative Information

      Hurricane Assistance Information

• Read the U.S. Department of Education's FAQs about Emergency Impact Aid for Displaced Students
• Read the U.S. Department of Education's FAQs about Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations
• See the Federal Register notice regarding available funds for school districts
• Read the Legislative Text of the Hurricane Education Recovery Act
  

       Other Legislative Information

• Letter on Priority Issues
• Targeting Analysis and Recommendations
• Proposed School Accountability System

• Read the Council's Comments and Reply Comments to the FCC regarding the proposed E-Rate rule change (May 2001)
   
• See the Council's recommendations and proposals for reauthorizing the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act ESEA  (April 1999)
  
• Read Education Secretary Spellings' Speech at the Council's Legislative/Policy Conference (March 2005)
  
• Read the Council's comments on the draft guidance for Public School Choice (January 2003)
   
• Read the Council's comments on the draft Administrative Claiming Guide for Medicaid Cost Recovery (December 2002)
   
• Read the Council's comments on the draft guidance for Paraprofessionals
  (November 2002)
   
• Read the Council's Testimony on Implementation of No Child Left Behind
  (September 2002)
   
• Read the Council's comments on the preliminary regulations for Title I
  (August 2002)
   
• Read the report of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education
  (July 2002)
   
• Read the Council's letter supporting the Education Bill (December 2001) 
   
• Read the Council's letter to ESEA Conferees on the lack of targeting of Reading First funds (September 2001)
   
• Read the Council's Recommendations to the ESEA Conference Committee
  (September 2001)