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Guidance Targeting Harassment Outlines Local and Federal Responsibility

White House to Convene Conference on Bullying Early Next Year
October 26, 2010

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Washington, D.C. - Today, the Department of Education issued guidance to support educators in combating bullying in schools by clarifying when student bullying may violate federal education anti-discrimination laws. The guidance issued today also makes clear that while current laws enforced by the department do not protect against harassment based on religion or sexual orientation, they do include protection against harassment of members of religious groups based on shared ethnic characteristics as well as gender and sexual harassment of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender individuals.

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President Obama: It Gets Better
From The White House Blog posted by Brian Bond on October 21, 2010 at 11:30 PM EDT

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October 2010 Roper Poll Results

Tremaine Foundation & GfK Roper Track Attitudes of Teachers, Parents and Public Opinion Impacting Federal Legislation and Teaching

For Release: Oct 6, 2010
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New Poll Reveals Dangerous Confusion about Children with Learning Disabilities

Washington, DC - A poll released today showed that parents and educators are dangerously confused about learning disabilities but also support greater government funding for intervention. Released today by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation at a briefing on Capitol Hill, this is the fourth poll by GfK Roper in a series of in-depth opinion research on learning disabilities that began in 1995. The study conducted telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of American adults with sub-samples of parents, teachers and school administrators. It uncovered troubling misunderstandings about the definition, root causes, key influencers and interventions that impact public policy and legislation to support children who learn differently.

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CTN5 Visits the LDA of Maine Open House