[WADNet Post] Oct 16: Special Notices from DAWN
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SPECIAL NOTICES FROM DAWN
-- Oct 19 & 20: Sen. Feingold Listening Sessions
-- Nov 13: Public Forum on Special Education
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Oct 19 & 20: Sen. Feingold Listening Sessions
U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will hold listening sessions in Ashland,
Sawyer and Price Counties. His session in Ashland will be held on
Friday, October 19, 2007. His sessions in Sawyer and Price counties
will be on Saturday, October 20, 2007. Senator Feingold has pledged to
hold listening sessions in all of Wisconsin’s 72 counties each year of
his six-year term. If constituents need special accommodations at the
listening sessions they should contact Senator Feingold’s Middleton
office at 608-828-1200.
His Ashland County listening session will be held at 6:45 p.m. in the
Council Chambers at the Ashland City Hall, 601 Main Street West, Ashland.
His Sawyer County listening session will be held at 8:15 a.m. at the
Stone Lake Lions Hall, 16831 West Main Street, Stone Lake.
His Price County listening session will be held at 12:00 p.m. at the
Brantwood Community Center, N4888 Stadium Road, Brantwood.
Each session will last up to one hour. These meetings allow you the
opportunity to express your views to the Senator on federal issues such
as IDEA, Community Choice Act, Rehabilitation Act, housing, health care,
voting and campaign finance, and ethics reform.
For more information on federal issues, check the DAWN web site on
national disability issues at: http://www.dawninfo.org/advocacy/national.cfm
More information about Sen. Feingold’s listening sessions (in both
English and Spanish) can be found on his web site.
English: http://feingold.senate.gov/listening/index.html
Spanish: http://feingold.senate.gov/espanol/listening_map_sp.html
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Nov 13: Public Forum on Special Education
The Wisconsin Council on Special Education will hold a public forum to
obtain broad based input on special education.
When: November 13, 2007 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM
Where: Madison Marriott West, Salon D, 1313 John Q. Hammons Drive,
Middleton, 608/831-2000.
What: The purpose for this forum is to gather public comment on the
unique challenges and successes of special education in Wisconsin.
Information gathered will be used by the Council in advising the
Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on matters affecting the
education of Wisconsin’s children and youth with disabilities.
Comments are sought for the following topics:
* State law: eligibility criteria for Significant Developmental Delay
and Specific Learning Disabilities;
* Parent education and parent partnerships: statewide needs;
* Cross-categorical programming;
* Student mental health issues: needs and responses;
* Any other topic on special education.
For more information:
Patricia Yahle, Council Chairperson
at Milwaukee Public Schools
P.O. Box 2181
Milwaukee, WI 53201-2181
414/475-8608
yahlepa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
or
Julie Lidbury, Council Vice-Chairperson
Department of Corrections
P.O. Box 8930
Madison, WI 53708-8930
608/240-5923
julie.lidbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Contributed by: DAWN)
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Leslie Riggs
WADNet Post Editor & Listserv Administrator
Wisconsin Association of the Deaf
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