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IEL Supports Self-Advocates at Florida Advocacy Summit

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 IEL staff joined the Family Café to facilitate the first Florida Advocacy Summit (funded through the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council), which included self-advocates with disabilities, family members, and allies. Together, the attendees created advocacy action plans to address barriers to affordable, accessible housing and transportation for people with disabilities in Florida.   The IEL team designed […]

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August Policy Update

August 2022 IEL Federal Policy Update

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Policy by the People Agenda Summary of federal policy action this past month and a look-ahead to the next few weeks/month Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act (H.R.8450): On July 20th, the House Committee on Education and Labor released the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, the Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill, to address the issue of child

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...people cannot pursue their dreams if they or their children, sisters, brothers, friends, uncles, aunts, and others are being gunned down in their schools, communities, grocery stores, places of worship, and elsewhere.

IEL Supports Passage of Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

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June 24, 2022  The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) applauds the passage today of the historic Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, at the same time we continue to mourn the recent tragedies in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX that were carried out with guns.   This legislation is a significant step forward that will save lives and

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Deputy Secretary of Education Dr. Cindy Marten on a Community School site visit during CSxFE22

June 2022 IEL Federal Policy Update

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Policy by the People Agenda  Summary of legislative action this past month and a look-ahead to the next few weeks/month  ED’s New Efforts and Resources for Supporting Mental Health and Students With Disabilities: On May 23rd the Department of Education hosted the virtual summit From Recovery to Thriving: Supporting Mental Health and Students with Disabilities.

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Pride month: IEL logo and rainbow background with butterflies

IEL Calls on Leaders to Take an Active Stand for LGBTQIA+ Youth During Pride Month and Beyond

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IEL works collaboratively to increase access to education and workforce opportunities, so all children and families can create the lives they want to live. By partnering with community leaders across different ages, experience levels, and sectors, IEL’s fulfills its mission to ensure that all voices—including those of youth, communities of color, and people with disabilities—are

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IEL’s Education Policy Fellowship Program Graduates its 58th Cohort

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Fellowship program supports education leaders to promote equitable education policy (Washington DC, May 31, 2022) The Institute for Educational Leadership’s Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP™) is graduating its 58th cohort of Fellows this spring.  EPFP is a nationally recognized fellowship program that engages a diverse and collaborative community of strategic leaders to promote equitable education

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IEL Statement

IEL Statement on Latest Slaughter of School Children in Texas Shooting

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Massacre is the deadliest elementary school shooting since Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012 May 24th, 2022 Today we all mourn the devastating loss of 19 children and two adults that were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Our work at the The Institute for Educational Leadership centers on children and the

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Federal Budget Process

April 2022 IEL Federal Policy Update

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Summary of legislative action this past month and a look-ahead to the next few weeks/month Policy by the People Agenda Congress is currently holding hearings in appropriations subcommittees to inform their FY 23 proposed budgets. Please see below for a helpful timeline of the federal budget process (credit to Bloomberg Government, https://about.bgov.com/brief/your-guide-to-navigating-the-federal-budget-process/).  Alongside any advocacy

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