To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line deduction for supplies as is allowed to elementary and secondary school teachers.

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 flexiblity, consolidation of Title I schoolwide funds, while preserving school and district accountability, and meeting the academic achievement needs of all students * INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT IMPLEMENTATION Regulations, guidance, and other implementation issues of the latest reauthorized federal special education law, to improve services and results for children with disabilities in pre K-12 grades of local public schools and districts, including specific California impact * ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION PREPARATION Preparation of recommendations to retain, revise, improve or add provisions in the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the principal federal statute that affects K-12 public education, with California impact * S 242: TITLE I INTEGRITY ACT OF 2009 To specify uniform purposes for which funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, Part A, funds for disadvantaged students, may be used by local K-12 public school districts for direct or indirect instructional services * TO PROVIDE CONTINUING AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO 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 the U.S. and in the State of California * HR 1361: INCREASED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH INCREASED STUDENT SUPPORT ACT To increase recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists, to low-income public school districts through new competitive grants to partnerships of school districts and graduate school programs training these professionals, to expand availability of student support services to preK-12 children and youth * HR 1: THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT IMPLEMENTATION To provide economic recovery urgency funds to pre-K-12 public school districts in California, on a timely, efficient basis, to maintain availability of educational services to students at a time when the State of California is experiencing a serious fiscal crisis and school district budgets are subject to severe cutbacks * TO DEVELOP STRENGTHENED SUPPORT FOR EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES To provide strengthened support for expanded learning initiatives and opportunities in local school districts and communities, so that students who need additional time to learn, in order to succeed academically, will have access to such opportunities * HR 1405: TO PROVIDE HEAD START TEACHERS A TAX DEDUCTION FOR CLASSROOM SCHOOL SUPPLIES PURCHASED WITH PERSONAL FUNDS To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line tax deduction as is currently allowed for elementary and secondary school teachers, for classroom school supplies and materials purchased with out-of-pocket personal funds that have not been reimbursed

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Education, Dept of, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

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 flexiblity, consolidation of Title I schoolwide funds, while preserving school and district accountability, and meeting the academic achievement needs of all students * INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ACT IMPLEMENTATION Regulations, guidance, and other implementation issues of the latest reauthorized federal special education law, to improve services and results for children with disabilities in pre K-12 grades of local public schools and districts, including specific California impact * ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION PREPARATION Preparation of recommendations to retain, revise, improve or add provisions in the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the principal federal statute that affects K-12 public education, with California impact * S 242: TITLE I INTEGRITY ACT OF 2009 To specify uniform purposes for which funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, Part A, funds for disadvantaged students, may be used by local K-12 public school districts for direct or indirect instructional services * TO PROVIDE CONTINUING AFFORDABLE ACCESS TO 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 the U.S. and in the State of California * HR 1361: INCREASED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH INCREASED STUDENT SUPPORT ACT To increase recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists, to low-income public school districts through new competitive grants to partnerships of school districts and graduate school programs training these professionals, to expand availability of student support services to preK-12 children and youth * HR 1: THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT IMPLEMENTATION To provide economic recovery urgency funds to pre-K-12 public school districts in California, on a timely, efficient basis, to maintain availability of educational services to students at a time when the State of California is experiencing a serious fiscal crisis and school district budgets are subject to severe cutbacks * TO DEVELOP STRENGTHENED SUPPORT FOR EXPANDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES To provide strengthened support for expanded learning initiatives and opportunities in local school districts and communities, so that students who need additional time to learn, in order to succeed academically, will have access to such opportunities * HR 1405: TO PROVIDE HEAD START TEACHERS A TAX DEDUCTION FOR CLASSROOM SCHOOL SUPPLIES PURCHASED WITH PERSONAL FUNDS To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to allow Head Start teachers the same above-the-line tax deduction as is currently allowed for elementary and secondary school teachers, for classroom school supplies and materials purchased with out-of-pocket personal funds that have not been reimbursed

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Education, Dept of, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE

HR 1405 - TO PROVIDE HEAD START TEACHERS A TAX DEDUCTION FOR PERSONAL PURCHASE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to allow Head Start teachers to receive the same above-the-line tax deduction that elementary and secondary school teachers now receive, for purchase of school classroom supplies and materials paid for with unreimbursed personal funds * ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT REAUTHORIZATION PREPARATION Research and development of recommendations for the upcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that relate especially to instructional content, delivery of instruction through use of online, print, and other diverse materials to enhance and supplement pre-K-12 teaching and learning for students and educators through differentiated learning opportunities and resources

Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $12,000

Government targets: Education, Dept of, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE