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face=Arial color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN><STRONG>om:</STRONG> NAGC
Advocacy [mailto:giftedsupporter@nagc.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 08, 2009
6:38 AM<BR><B>To:</B> FIGGINS Stacey<BR><B>Subject:</B> Legislative
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">What You Should Do Before May
12</SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Contact your Senators
** and ask them to co-sign the Dodd-Grassley
appropriations letter requesting funds for the Javits Gifted
and Talented Students Education Act.</SPAN></P>
<UL>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Access your Senators' email
address or online form at </SPAN><A
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=171622841&sid=6509094&m=728008&u=NAGC&s=http://www.senate.org"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">www.senate.org</SPAN></A>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Use <I>education
appropriations </I>as the subject line, where possible
</SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"> Include a message
such as, "The Javits program is the only federal initiative
that focuses on ways to identify and serve the needs of
gifted and talented students, including those from
disadvantaged backgrounds. For more than 20 years the
results of the research and demonstration grants funded
through the Javits program have provided best practices for
classrooms across the country." </SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Where possible, include
examples of how students have benefitted from the research
and grants funded by the Javits prog</SPAN><SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">ram.</SPAN></SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">** note that 10
Senators have already co-signed the letter; Senators on the
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><A
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=171622841&sid=6509095&m=728008&u=NAGC&s=http://appropriations.senate.gov/members.cfm"
target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">appropriations
committee</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"> may
decline to co-sign. </SPAN>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Click here to read the
</SPAN><A
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=171622841&sid=6509096&m=728008&u=NAGC&s=http://attach/Senate%20ltr%20FY%202010.pdf"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Dodd-Grassley letter</SPAN></A><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt">.</SPAN> </LI></UL>
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<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">President Obama's Budget Excludes
Javits Program</SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></B></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">As you may know, President
Obama’s budget was sent to Congress yesterday. Unfortunately,
the education budget did not include funding for the Javits
Gifted and Talented Students Education
program.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Of course, we’re disappointed
that the President didn’t support the program this year,
especially considering that he did when he was in the U.S.
Senate. Although the budget documents state that the president
supports gifted and talented education, there is no indication
of how he and the secretary of education intend to demonstrate
that support. Know that NAGC will be working to persuade the
administration to show their support in tangible
ways.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">IN THE MEANTIME, gifted education
advocates will rely on the strategies that have served us well
in the past. We’ll take our case directly to Congress to
ensure that the Javits program is funded in fiscal year 2010
and beyond. </SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">IN THIS REGARD, we have the
opportunity to send a strong signal to the Senate
appropriations committee by securing additional Senators to
join Senators Dodd & Grassley in requesting at least
$11.25 million in funding for the Javits program in fiscal
year 2010.</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Originally, the letter to the
appropriations committee was to be sent on April 24, but
because of the delay in Congress receiving the president’s
budget, Senators Dodd (CT) and Grassley (Iowa) have extended
the deadline to co-sign their letter to May
12.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">NAGC urges you to take a moment
in the next few days to email your
senators</SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">,
asking them to co-sign the Dodd-Grassley letter requesting
$11.25 million for the Javits Gifted and Talented Students
Education Act. Click <A
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=171622841&sid=6509097&m=728008&u=NAGC&s=http://attach/Senate%20ltr%20FY%202010.pdf">here
</A>to read the letter.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">So far we have 10 Senators who
have agreed to co-sign </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">the
Dodd-Grassley letter (see below), but we’d like to have many
more to show the appropriations committee that there is real
support for this small, but important program. (Note
that Senators on the <A
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=171622841&sid=6509098&m=728008&u=NAGC&s=http://appropriations.senate.gov/members.cfm"
target=_blank>appropriations committee</A> may decline to sign
the letter, because the letter is directed to
them.)</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Senate email addresses (or online
forms) are posted for all Senators at <A
href="http://www.magnetmail1.net/ls.cfm?r=171622841&sid=6509099&m=728008&u=NAGC&s=http://www.senate.gov"
target=_blank>www.senate.gov</A>. Use “<I>education
appropriations request</I>” as your email subject line so that
your message will be directed to the appropriate staff.
</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">If you have used information
developed by the National Research Center on the Gifted &
Talented, or if your district or state has benefitted from
participation in a Javits grant project, please be sure to
include that information in your messages to the Senate. We
need to let Congress know the myriad ways that the Javits
program benefits students.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Thank you, your advocacy efforts
will make a difference!</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Senators Already Co-Signing the
Dodd-Grassley Letter on the Javits
Program</SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Blanche Lincoln (AR)<BR>Joseph
Lieberman (CT)<BR>Richard Lugar (IN)<BR>Frank Lautenberg
(NJ)<BR>Jeff Bingaman (NM)<BR>Sherrod Brown (OH)<BR>Ron Wyden
(OR)<BR>Robert Casey (PA)<BR>John D. “Jay” Rockefeller
(WV)<BR>Russell Feingold (WI)<BR></SPAN></SPAN></P><!--TWO End --></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD>
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