After an overwhelming bipartisan committee vote, we need your Senator's support
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Hello Aaron!
As we finish out the year, a rare sight has been spotted in Washington DC: a bipartisan vote! Last week, the Senate HELP Committee passed a bill - authored by Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - to improve the Education Department's research activites - including on school and academic libraries. Click below to thank Senators who voted for this bill, and urge your Senators to sign on:
S. 3392, the Advancing Research in Education Act (AREA), would reauthorize and improve the Education Department's statistical and research activities, including its data collection about school and academic libraries. The research is not empty bureaucracy: by strengthening data collection about school and academic libraries, we can better understand how those libraries support students and faculty, as well as identify challenges that libraries may be facing – and improve data collection from HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.
This bill was approved in an overwhelming bipartisan vote in the HELP Committee, and now needs the support in Congress to become law. So thank the Senators who supported this bill and ask your other Senator to sign on now:
As we end this year, we want to thank you for all you do for libraries! It is advocates like you that make progress possible.
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