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Legislative Update March, 2010
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murrayellison
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Date: March 11, 2010 08:51PM
CEA continues to send out updates on various pieces of legislation, adult and juvenile. Fran Tracy-Mumford of Maryland became our legislative chair which and has given the CEA Executive Office an extra hand in keeping up with emails and sending out information. She will chair the legislative update at the Forum on Tuesday.
CEA continues to sign on to a large number of letters supporting legislation in both adult and juvenile areas. We gave a larger report to Murray Ellison for the President’s Council Special Interest Group Report.
The major pieces of national legislation during the last several months include the Workforce Investment Act (AEEG), National Criminal Justice Act, various pieces of juvenile justice legislation sponsored Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Coalition including the coalition ACT4JJ Working Group, the Appropriations Working Group, the Youth Promise Act and the Recidivism Reduction Act, among others.
As we have done for years the CEA Executive Office continues to network with important groups. CEA is a member of the National Coalition for Literacy and the Coalition for the Advancement of Adult Literacy and has been very involved with the re-authorization of the Workforce Investment Act. The Executive Director has worked behind the scenes with a number of legislative aides in the House and Senate helping with language to improve the post secondary grants for the incarcerated (formerly Grants for Youthful Offenders). In the Spring he met with Greg Darneider, President Obama’s College Access appointee to champion increased funding for adult and youth in the nation’s correctional facilities. At the invitation of the Neglected and Delinquent Technical Assistance Centers the Executive Director spoke at the 2009 NDTAC National Conference in June in Washington, DC emphasizing CEA’s strong role in juvenile justice. Most recently, CEA has become involved with the Office of the Vice President on correctional education bringing a group of correctional and educational leaders to talk about education and technology in corrections. In December, I met with the Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, and the Assistant Secretary for OVAE, Brenda Dann-Messier, to talk about issues related to adult and juvenile education.
In the last four months CEA Executive Office has been trying to ascertain the situation for teachers in the California adult system. At the invitation of the SEIU union representing teachers and with their support I flew to Sacramento to testify to the legislature against the cuts. At this writing, about 800 teachers have lost their jobs, effective February 28, 2010. A lawsuit is pending that may re-instate some or all of them. We will give an update at the Board meeting.
Steve
Stephen J. Steurer, Ph.D.,
Executive Director
Correctional Education Association
8182 Lark Brown Road Suite 202
Elkridge, MD 21075
tel 443-459-3081
fax 443-459-3088
www.ceanational.org
"Transforming Lives Through Education"
CEA continues to sign on to a large number of letters supporting legislation in both adult and juvenile areas. We gave a larger report to Murray Ellison for the President’s Council Special Interest Group Report.
The major pieces of national legislation during the last several months include the Workforce Investment Act (AEEG), National Criminal Justice Act, various pieces of juvenile justice legislation sponsored Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Coalition including the coalition ACT4JJ Working Group, the Appropriations Working Group, the Youth Promise Act and the Recidivism Reduction Act, among others.
As we have done for years the CEA Executive Office continues to network with important groups. CEA is a member of the National Coalition for Literacy and the Coalition for the Advancement of Adult Literacy and has been very involved with the re-authorization of the Workforce Investment Act. The Executive Director has worked behind the scenes with a number of legislative aides in the House and Senate helping with language to improve the post secondary grants for the incarcerated (formerly Grants for Youthful Offenders). In the Spring he met with Greg Darneider, President Obama’s College Access appointee to champion increased funding for adult and youth in the nation’s correctional facilities. At the invitation of the Neglected and Delinquent Technical Assistance Centers the Executive Director spoke at the 2009 NDTAC National Conference in June in Washington, DC emphasizing CEA’s strong role in juvenile justice. Most recently, CEA has become involved with the Office of the Vice President on correctional education bringing a group of correctional and educational leaders to talk about education and technology in corrections. In December, I met with the Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, and the Assistant Secretary for OVAE, Brenda Dann-Messier, to talk about issues related to adult and juvenile education.
In the last four months CEA Executive Office has been trying to ascertain the situation for teachers in the California adult system. At the invitation of the SEIU union representing teachers and with their support I flew to Sacramento to testify to the legislature against the cuts. At this writing, about 800 teachers have lost their jobs, effective February 28, 2010. A lawsuit is pending that may re-instate some or all of them. We will give an update at the Board meeting.
Steve
Stephen J. Steurer, Ph.D.,
Executive Director
Correctional Education Association
8182 Lark Brown Road Suite 202
Elkridge, MD 21075
tel 443-459-3081
fax 443-459-3088
www.ceanational.org
"Transforming Lives Through Education"
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