[Ohiogift] ESEA amendments include 6 years of Javits funding

[Margaret DeLacy]

Friends:

Below is a link to and excerpt from a story that appeared in Educaction week.

Margaret


http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2015/04/restraint_and_seclusion_gifted.html

States would be required to adopt policies to prevent unnecessary use of restraint and seclusion in schools, and a federal gifted education grant program would be reauthorized for six years, under amendments that were added this week to the proposed rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. 

The Senate education committee unanimously approved the bill Thursday. Its next step is debate before the full Senate. ...

The gifted education amendment came from retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, also a Democrat. Mikulski has been a longtime champion of gifted education. The amendment would continue authorization of the federal Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education program, which was just funded for $10 million in the fiscal 2015 budget. Javits grants go to researchers who study best practices in identifying and teaching underrepresented populations.