ACSI identifies and analyzes a broad array of national, legal, and legislative issues through its Washington, D.C. office. Dr. John Holmes, Director for Government Affairs, monitors issues of national concern. He also produces National Notes, which is current information on pending congressional legislation, education reform, religious freedom, trends, and higher education. National Notes is emailed monthly to member schools. Members are urged to be proactive on legislative fronts that affect the Christian school movement and religious liberty, both nationally and internationally.
In Colorado Springs, Dr. Tom Cathey, ACSI’s Director for Legal/Legislative Issues, tracks legislation for all fifty states. Reports are generated for each state and are available under Legislative Tracking. He produces the Legal Legislative Update, which is mailed to member schools three times annually. Dr. Cathey also is available to answer questions from schools by phone or email.
The website also contains a number of reference articles dealing with Board Governance, Employment issues, Financial and IRS issues, Government Programs and Funding, Parent Issues, Student Discipline, Crisis Issues, and Health Issues. This is a member only area. Be sure and log in with your school user name and password.
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Use these hotlinks to contact your Congressional officials. All you have to do is enter your state and zip code to locate your U.S. Representative in the top hotlink. Use the bottom hotlink to locate your U.S. Senator. Both hotlinks will give you address and telephone contact information. You can also send email messages to these individuals through these hotlinks.
Crisis Planning for Early Education Centers Webinar
Date: April 8, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM (PDT) 11:00 AM (MDT) 12:00 PM (CDT) 1:00 PM (EDT)
Crisis planning is essential for all schools, including early education centers. It is critical to be prepared for whatever crisis may come. The webinar will cover the need for a crisis plan, resources for the plan, how to assemble a crisis team, how to work with local authorities, and how to develop plans for various crisis situations. There will be an opportunity for questions.
Presenters:
- Tom Cathey is the ACSI Director for Legal Legislative Issues and has over thirty years of Christian School experience.
- Kristi Martin is the Executive Director of Harvest Child Development Center in Fort Worth, Texas. She has dealt extensively with her local city while developing a comprehensive crisis plan for the center.
This webinar will be done in Microsoft Live Meeting and does not work on Mac computers.