LINDSAY KUBATZKY

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) lobbied on issues related to our mission of supporting individuals with learning disabilities. This includes advocating during the budget reconciliation process and FY 2025 appropriations process to increase funding for special education services. In addition, NCLD advocated on the the IDEA Full Funding Act and the Respond, Innovate, Succeeds, and Empower Act. NCLD also advocated around issues impacting students with disabilities within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) lobbied on issues related to our mission of supporting individuals with learning disabilities. This includes advocating during the budget reconciliation process and FY 2025 appropriations process to increase funding for special education services. In addition, NCLD advocated on the the IDEA Full Funding Act and the Respond, Innovate, Succeeds, and Empower Act.

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) lobbied on issues related to our mission of supporting individuals with learning disabilities. This includes advocating during the budget reconciliation process and FY 2025 appropriations process to increase funding for special education services. In addition, NCLD collaborated on the Empowering Families in Special Education Act, the IDEA Full Funding Act, the Keep our PACT Act, Protecting Students with Disabilities Act, the Respond, Innovate, Succeeds, and Empowers Act, the Respect, Advancement, and Increasing Support for Educators (RAISE) Act, and the Workforce Opportunity and Innovation Act. In addition, NCLD supported the resolutions acknowledging the importance of public Education and public schools.

Appropriations related to special education funding NCLD priorities Private school vouchers including the Educational Choice for Children Act Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

AI FY 2025 Appropriations College Transparency Act Education and Workforce Freedom Act Educational Choice for Children Act Grassroots NCLD Priorities NDAA RISE Act WIOA 21st Century Dyslexia Act

Advanced Coursework Equity Act AI FY25 appropriations Grassroots IDEA Full Funding Act Keeping All Students Safe Act NCLD priorities / LD Day of Action NDAA Respond, Innovate, Succeed and Empower Act (RISE) WIOA

Appropriations Literacy Improvement for Transformation (LIFT) Act Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower Act Private school vouchers Vouchers Stronger Workforce for America Act NCLD priorities Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act FY24 appropriations Literacy

FY 24 Appropriations Advanced Coursework Equity Act Individuals with Disabilities Education Act LD Resolution Stronger Workforce for America Act Advancing Research in Education Act Vouchers

COLLEGE TRANSPARENCY ACT National Apprenticeship Act FY 24 Appropriations Respond Innovate Succeed and Empower Act Advanced Coursework Equity Act Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Expanding Disability Access to Higher Education Act NCLD Priorities LD Resolution

COLLEGE TRANSPARENCY ACT Respond Innovate Succeed and Empower Act More Teaching Less Testing Act FY 24 Appropriations Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Expanding Disability Access to Higher Education Act Grassroots PARA Act NCLD Priorities Education Science Reform Act

COLLEGE TRANSPARENCY ACT RISE ACT 21st CENTURY DYSLEXIA ACT APPROPRIATIOINS KEEPING OUR PACT ACT PARENTS' & STUDENTS' RIGHTS VOUCHERS

FY 2023 Appropriations Respond, Innovate, Succeed and Empowers (RISE) Act 21st Century Dyslexia Act Early Education School Climate Grassroots (Mental Health Matters Act)

FY 2023 Appropriations Teacher Loan Forgiveness Act Grassroots (Mental Health Matters Act) RISE Act/Mental Health Matters Act 21st Century Dyslexia Act

FY 23 Appropriations (IES and IDEA Funding) - America COMPETES Act - Dyslexia Legislation - Student Mental Health Rights Act - RISE Act - Grassroots Advocacy - Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

College Transparency Act/America COMPETES Act Amendment Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act RISE Act FY 2023 Appropriations LD Research

FY 22 Appropriations IDEA Full Funding Act Build Back Better Act Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower Act Educators for America Act

Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower (RISE) Act Education Sciences Reform Act FY 22 Appropriations Budget Reconciliation Catherine Lhamon Nomination NCLD's Policy Agenda

LD research funding and FY 22 Appropriations The Respond, Innovate, Succeed, & Empower Act NCLD's policy agenda Grassroots Advocacy Lhamon OCR Nomination

COVID relief funding Statewide assessments and waivers under the Every Student Succeeds Act FY22 funding and funding for LD research IDEA funding Strategy for reintroducing the RISE Act

3 hours for FY 2021 Appropriations 3 hours on FY21 appropriations 24 hours on NCLD's legislative agenda for the 117th Congress

FY 2021 appropriations (CEF Hill Meeting with Rep. Lois Frankel) Stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 Crisis (Heroes and HEALS Act) Bills on school climate and discipline (Counseling Not Criminalization Act) AP access for students with disabilities (Advanced Coursework Equity Act) IDEA funding (the Supporting Children with Disabilities During COVID-19 Act) FY 2021 appropriations stimulus package in response to COVID (the HEALS Act, the Heroes Act) AP access for students with disabilities (The Advanced Coursework Equity Act) bills on school climate and discipline (the "Counseling not Criminalization in Schools Act") and instructional loss due to COVID (The Learning Opportunity and Achievement Act)

Budget & appropriations for FY2020, specific to funding for education programs (1) Legislative priorities for COVID-19 stimulus bills, (2) Waivers of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and (3) FY2021 IDEA funding (4) The Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower Students with Disabilities (RISE)Act

Budget & appropriations for FY2020, specific to funding for education programs (1) promoting the RISE Act on transition for young adults with learning disabilities; (2) advocating for Individual Disability Education Act IDEA funding, research funding, and increases in funding for FY2021; (3) COVID-19 legislative proposals

Budget & appropriations for FY2020, specific to funding for education programs --Individual Disability Education Act (IDEA) funding increase for FY20 with the IDEA Full Funding Coalition in both the House and Senate appropriations committees -- the RISE Act

Budget & appropriations for FY2020, specific to funding for education programs -- Advocating in support of the Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower Act of 2019 (RISE Act), which amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve access to higher education for students with disabilities -- Advocacy on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and the Improving Access to Higher Education Act, both of which can increase access to college for students with disabilities -- Proposals relating to the use of 529 savings plans for homeschool expenses for students with disabilities -- Advocacy on full funding of IDEA to provide more robust services to students with disabilities

Appropriations Respond, Innovate, Succeed, and Empower Act of 2017 or the RISE Act: This bill amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to set forth requirements about data collection related to students with disabilities. Specifically, the bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) to outline which documents disabled students need to submit in order to ensure they are eligible for student disability support services.