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Next steps for Education as the Gateway to Women’s Economic Security

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For the last year, a national e-mail list has been used to send information on program ideas related to AAUW’s new theme, “Education as the Gateway to Women’s Economic Security”. If you’d like to be part of the North Carolina “theme team” – with a commitment to distributing these ideas and putting them into action – let Nancy know and she’ll get you subscribed so you see these messages as soon as they come out.

For more about programming ideas related to the theme, see www.aauw.org/newvision and, in particular, the one page handout which documents the wide variety of programs generated from the theme.
Read on for the latest updates.
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AAUW Washington Federal Update

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From: AAUW Public Policy & Government Relations Dept.

  • The 109th Congress Still Hasn’t Finished Its Business
  • Senate Confirms FDA Chief
  • Short Work Week for Members of Congress Goes the Way of the Dodo
  • Despite Gains in Politics, Women Still Have a Long Way to Go
  • Most Parents Are Very Satisfied With Their Child’s School
  • Dept. of Education Convenes Forum on Higher Education
  • Hunting for a College is COOL
  • LAF Plaintiff’s Case Settled After Supreme Court Decision

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December Federal Public Policy Update

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From: AAUW Public Policy & Government Relations Dept.
Date: Friday, Dec. 1, 2006

  • Congress Expected to Lamely Duck its Responsibilities– Final FY07 Budget Decisions Left for New Year and New Congress
  • he First 100 Hours of the Next Congress
  • Wouldn’t That Make Them the Gang of 12?
  • On the Road
  • Apparently If They Can Keep the Wage Disparity a Secret Long Enough They Don’t Have To Do Anything about It
  • Supreme Court Declines to Take Voucher Case
  • University Calls for 50/50 Faculty
  • Florida Voters File Suit
  • Americans Believe a Woman Will be President
  • …But Bill Frist Believes that He Won’t
  • America Recognizes AAUW’s 125th Anniversary
  • Sign Up Your Friends and AAUW Colleagues for Action Network!
  • Congress Expected to Lamely Duck its Responsibilities– Final FY07 Budget Decisions Left for New Year and New Congress

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Nov. 8 Election News from AAUW Washington

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As a result of yesterday’s elections, for the first time in U.S. history a woman will be speaker of the house when the 110th Congress convenes in January. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is expected to be elevated to speaker now that the Democrats have won the majority of seats in the House. Pelosi addressed the AAUW National Convention in June 2005. As Action Network went to press, the balance of power in the Senate was still in question – and all seemed to hinge on the state of Virginia.In terms of total numbers, it is unclear whether 2006 will match 1992, when women almost doubled their ranks in both chambers. That year, women picked up 19 House seats and three Senate seats, putting 47 women in the House and seven women in the Senate. Before yesterday’s election, there were 67 women in the House and 14 women in the Senate, making women 15 percent of the entire legislative branch

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Supplementary material on education as promised on 10/21

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Below you’ll find the extra education material that Keith Howard talked about on Saturday at the Women’s Agenda Assembly in Statesville. I have condensed some of the information. Contact information for questions regarding the material below: KeithH@legalaidnc.org

This message includes or has links to:

  1. Personal Education Plans: The Law and You
  2. Accessing Test Scores through the DPI website
  3. Amicus brief in the Leandro case, 9/21/06

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