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Administration's 2011 Budget Request Eliminates Direct Funding for NWP
Date: February 23, 2010
Summary: NCTE urged its members to contact their legislators in support of NWP because the Obama administration's 2011 budget proposal consolidates funding for the NWP with that of five other literacy programs.
Excerpt from NCTE's InBox
The Obama administration's 2011 budget proposal consolidates funding for the National Writing Project (NWP) with that of five other literacy programs under a new states-based competitive grants program for which only state education agencies (SEAs) would be eligible to compete, alone or in partnership with outside entities. Writing Project sites in states that chose not to compete or were unsuccessful would receive no funding. Funding that previously went to support the work of teachers in NWP local sites would instead flow to SEAs.
Excerpt from NCTE's InBox Blog: It Takes a Community
I trace back the best of what I know about teaching writing to six weeks during one hot summer in Richmond when I was both a student and a teacher of writing—when I learned with others who encouraged me to keep learning, to try new methods, to reflect upon what I was doing, and to strive even when I didn't want to. Throughout the summer, these colleagues were there both to support and to nudge me, and to this day I still work with some of them. I continue to be nurtured by that experience because it taught me how to keep on learning and gave me a way to continue to learn how to teach. From that writing project I became involved with my local and state affiliates and that's how I came to NCTE.
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Read It Takes a Community 
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