The F.C.S.S. legislative committee is making a difference both at the state and national levels. F.C.S.S. is responsible for getting N.C.S.S. (and other national organizations) to look at the upcoming 2006 N.A.E.P. assessment. F.C.S.S. was the first professional organization representing social studies teachers to call for disaggregated data in the form of state-by-state comparisons to a national mean for all N.A.E.P. assessments.

F.C.S.S. was successful in getting former U.S. Secretary of Education and now TN Senator Lamar Alexander to file a bill to do this. F.C.S.S. was able to capture the attention of U.S. Representative Jim Davis (Tampa), in another bill that would withhold federal dollars from any state such as Florida that no longer required U.S History or Government for all its high school graduates. F.C.S.S. continues to fight against determined state bureaucrats and legislators who oppose our being added to Florida’s Student Progression Law or who wish to see our curriculum remain in an inferior status within public education. For example, current Florida law will not allow districts to even consider a student’s performance in social studies as that student is being considered for promotion in grades K-8!

We need your help! Join F.C.S.S. and become a member of the legislative ‘grassroots’ committee. If you don’t have the time for this, consider making an extra financial contribution to F.C.S.S. for this purpose!