![]() *** YOUR DAILY DO’S – TUESDAY, 7 AM EDITION *** Mary Park OMG! Flynn resigns! Who knew what and when and is this whole house of cards going to blow? It’s enough to make the most even-keeled among us feel hyper-vigilant. That vigilance unfortunately is an everyday feeling in lots of houses where special-needs kids live (like, uh, mine). More so than ever these days, with a Secretary of Education who doesn’t seem to know what IDEA (federal law guaranteeing a public education for students with disabilities) is one minute and thinks it should be “left up to the states” the next. Not to mention an Attorney General who thinks special-needs kids are “the single most irritating problem for teachers throughout America today.” Yikes! It doesn’t help that during DeVos’s confirmation the Education Department’s IDEA website went down. It’s since been replaced with a placeholder citing “technical issues” and rerouting to the text of the act itself, where once special-needs families found a user-friendly “one-stop shop” for learning about the law and what it meant. (Thank you waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/…/2…/http://idea.ed.gov/explore/home.) I'm sure that doesn't mean anything ominous and was 100% a coincidence, though. So what can you do to help?
Tell Senators Murray and Cantwell to oppose the CHOICE act. Any institution receiving public money should be held accountable to federal laws surrounding students with disabilities. (Contact info and link to bill text in comments) #DailyDos https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/265 Senator Murray: (202) 224-2621 DC; (206) 553-5545 Seattle Like · Reply · 5 hrs Mary Park Senator Cantwell: (202) 224-3441 DC; (206) 220-6400 Seattle Like · Reply · 5 hrs Mary Park OR visit the senators' office hours at either 12 noon or 1 pm today at the Federal Building auditorium. Thank you Indivisibles!
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