Looking Ahead
A Call to Action!
The We the People initiative is the Obama administration’s effort to provide citizens with a new way to petition the administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition garners 25,000 signatures within 30 days, White House staff reviews it, sends it to the appropriate policy experts, and issues an official response. More information is available athttps://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions.
ASCD is taking advantage of this initiative and petitioning the administration to make whole child education a national priority. Our effort begins this Thursday, January 19, 2012. We will petition the Obama administration to establish a President’s Council on the Whole Child to help students be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, and we will need YOU to go to the petition when it goes live this Thursday to add your voice in support of this holistic and child-centered push for