Advocacy and Membership: Twin Goals of CEC-‐DR
To do so will require a dogged, long-‐term effort on our part, as political winds are turbulent, with the 2016 presidential election splitting the Republican party and the death of Justice Antonin Scalia leaving an eight-‐member U.S. Supreme Court to decide (or not) important cases. In April, CEC members from across divisions met at the CEC convention in St. Louis, Missouri, to discuss our long-‐term strategies for advocacy. In July, we will storm Capitol Hill along with our colleagues from CASE, arguing on behalf of funding for children and youth with disabilities and the programs and research that serve them.
You can do your part by keeping your CEC-‐DR membership current and inviting your colleagues and students to join CEC-‐DR. Your membership opens doors to invaluable networking opportunities and chances to engage with colleagues across CEC divisions on behalf of special education research and NCSER funding.
This summer, we will bring to members of Congress your stories about the benefits of special education research for children and youth with disabilities, their family members, their teachers, and school leaders. Follow the link below to add your story today.
We wish to congratulate all of our CEC-‐DR award winners and thank everyone for a successful CEC convention. Speaking of awards, we wish to congratulate Christopher Lemons and Cynthia Puranik, special education researchers and IES grantees recently honored by President Obama as extraordinary early career scientists.
We can’t wait to unveil our new CEC-‐DR logo this spring and announce the outcome of our election for Vice President. We look forward to working with you all as we continue to advocate for special education research funding and increase the national presence of CEC-‐DR.
News and links
1. Follow the link below to add your story about special education research:
https://sites.google.com/a/uncg.edu/cec-‐dr-‐research-‐stories/
2. Read the announcement from the White House honoring Christopher Lemons and Cynthia Puranik here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-‐press-‐office/2016/02/18/ president-‐obama-‐ honors-‐extraordinary-‐early-‐career-‐ scientists
3. Read the news and find the resources from the IES Principal Investigators’ meeting in December of 2015: