• FY 2013 House Budget Resolution FY 2013 Senate Budget Resolution * FY 2013 HOUSE BUDGET RESOLUTION - Funding for Pre-K-12 and adult public education programs, wraparound services, including healthcare, related children/youth issues, college student financial aid, and child nutrition * FY 2013 SENATE BUDGET RESOLUTION - Funding for Pre-K-12 and adult public education programs, wraparound services, including health care, related children/youth issues, college student financial aid, and child nutrition * HOUSE FY 2013 LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS - To provide optimal sustainable funding for early childhood, pre-K-12, and adult public education, to develop career and college readiness, and academic proficiency for all local school district students, and to fund related support services for children and youth that include health care, Medicaid and SCHIP * SENATE FY 2013 LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS - To provide optimal sustainable funding for early childhood, pre-K-12, and adult public education, to develop career and college readiness, and academic proficiency for all local school district students, and to fund related support services for children and youth that include health care, Medicaid and SCHIP * FY 2013 PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST - Funding and greater flexibility for preK-12 and adult public education programs, related children/youth issues, college student financial aid, provisions for children's health, Medicaid and child nutrition * SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACILITIES AND TEACHERS/EDUCATORS POSITIONS - To seek supplemental/additional federal funds for preK-12 public school facilities improvement support; and to preserve preK-12 public school positions for teachers and educators, allowing for rehiring and hiring of personnel during this period of economic and budgetary difficulties in California, to ensure high quality education for students
• Comprehensive Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization Preparation * COMPREHENSIVE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION PREPARATION - Preparation of recommendations to retain, revise, improve, add or eliminate provisions in the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the principal federal statute that affects K-12 public education, with California impact, and to increase awareness of Fresno Unified (CA)-Long Beach Unified (CA) learning partnerships achievement improvement models, and desirability of greater federal flexibilities * TO PROVIDE CONTINUING AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO FEDERAL STUDENT LOANS AND FINANCIAL AID DURING TIMES OF FINANCIAL TURMOIL IN U.S. - To ensure continuing availability of and access to, federal college student financial assistance for local public school students, especially those who aspire to attend college, are from low-income families or underrepresented groups, who may be the first in their families to chart such an academic course, and who are taking a course of study while enrolled in elementary and secondary school to prepare them to succeed in college and career, especially during the now turbulent financial times experienced in U.S. communities and in the State of California * NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND CURRENT LAW IMPLEMENTATION- Regulations, guidance, waivers, and other implementation issues in diverse titles of the current Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization, and specific impacts on California preK-12 public school districts, including Title I funding fairness issues, funding flexibility, while preserving school and district accountability, and meeting the academic needs of all students * INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT (IDEA) IMPLEMENTATION AND PREPARATION - Regulations, guidance, and other implementation issues of the latest reauthorized federal special education law, to improve services and results for children with disabilities in preK-12 grades of local public schools and districts, including specific California impact, to identify inconsistencies in issues related to the education of children with disabilities, between IDEA and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and try to resolve them constructively * S 2252 - REBUILD AMERICA ACT - To provide that the U.S. Secretary of Education allocate grants to states, and through them, subgrants to local school districts for costs of retaining, recalling, rehiring or hiring employees to provide early childhood, elementary, or secondary education and related services and for modernizing facilities for those levels of education
• THE ANTI-DEFICIENCY ACT, TO AMEND SECTION 254 OF THE COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1934 - To exempt funds received for the Universal Service Fund, including the "E-Rate" telecommunications discounts for K-12 schools and libraries, from certain provisions of Title I of the Communications Act, known as the Anti-Deficiency Act, regarding applicable accounting rules, annually or permanently * TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996: Ongoing revision of federal telecommunications law and implementation of new rulemaking, regulations and guidance for schools and libraries Universal Service "E-Rate" telecommunications discounts, by Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, Universal Service Administration Company, Schools/Libraries Division, including E-Rate issues affecting K-12 public schools, school districts, students and educators, that would permit more eligible schools and students to gain affordable access to advanced telecommunications, to balance support to schools for broadband and for telephone services. * NATIONAL EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY PLAN AND NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN IMPLEMENTATION - To build support and sustainability for implementation of advanced telecommunications facilities and services for Pre-K-12 students and local school districts, including affordable broadband access and availability aligned with future college and career readiness educational goals and learning systems, using existing E-Rate mechanisms and selected other non-E-Rate funding, policy, and programmatic opportunities * TO SEEK INCREASE IN CURRENT E-RATE FUNDING CAP - To permanently raise the current annual funding cap on the E-Rate program, that provides discounts to schools and libraries for affordable access to advanced telecommunications services, and to explore additional options to provide affordable telecommunications opportunities to students at home and school, with identified funding sources that do not diminish the presently available but oversubscribed E-Rate funds
• To Improve Health Care Quality, Affordability, Accessibility, and Services for All Children To Implement Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 * TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE QUALITY, AFFORDABILITY, ACCESSIBILITY, AND SERVICES FOR ALL CHILDREN - To ensure that the new health care reform legislation is implemented, that improved health care quality, affordability, accessibility and services for all children, and youth, including preK-12 public school students, EPSDT services, wellness and prevention services, and health coverage, are at least equal to that now provided through Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) for low-income children * TO IMPLEMENT HEALTHY, HUNGER-FREE KIDS ACT OF 2010 - To ensure that the newly reauthorized Child Nutrition Act, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, is well-implemented at reasonable costs to local school districts with nutritionally healthy school meals that meet the needs of school children and families for federally subsidized school meals and other food assistance, during these difficult economic times; and that fosters optimal child health
• Food Safety for Child Nutrition Improvement Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act Child Nutrition Reauthorization 2010 Implementation * FOOD SAFETY FOR CHILD NUTRITION IMPROVEMENT - Implementation, legislation/guidance for improved food safety for child nutrition and school meals for public elementary and secondary school students, including the federal farm to school program, especially in light of recent and repeated USDA recall of products sent to school districts for use in federally subsidized school meals, rising food prices for preK-12 public schools, students, and families, and specific food safety impacts on California's children * HEALTHY, HUNGER FREE KIDS ACT CHILD NUTRITION REAUTHORIZATION 2010 IMPLEMENTATION - To ensure positive and reasonable implementation of the recently reauthorized Child Nutrition, National School Lunch and School Breakfast Acts for preK-12 public school meals programs, with healthy nutritional standards and optimal support for students and local school districts

Duration: September 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Education, Telecommunications, Health Issues, Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.)

Spending: about $60,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Education - Dept of, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Education - Dept of,, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), White House Office, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS),, White House Office,