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So you’re going to Capitol Hill – now what? AACS thanks you in advance for your participation in the 2018 School Leaders Summit & Capitol Hill Day. Capping off the School Leaders Summit is Capitol Hill Day on Thursday, April 12, 2018. “Hill Day” is a significant component of AACS’ ongoing advocacy efforts and political outreach at the federal level, and your active involvement in Capitol Hill Day is crucial in the effort to make our collective voice heard. Join AACS' Policy Advisors and Government Relations consultants when they host two webinars to explain how to contact your Members of Congress, share tips on scheduling meetings on The Hill, and explain what you can expect when you arrive in Washington, D.C. This is your chance to ask any questions you might have, address any challenges you are facing in scheduling your meetings, or calm any nerves you're experiencing at the thought of meeting with your congressional delegation. Register for one or both webinars by selecting the dates below: Tuesday, March 20 - 1:00 pm EST Great news - our host hotel, the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C., has graciously lowered our event group rate to $209. This applies to all existing and future reservations. To match this incredible offer, AACS has extended Early Bird pricing to all AACS members up to the event! Reserve your seat at the table at the 2018 School Leaders Summit and participate in this year's Capitol Hill Day - both for just $550. April 28 – 30 | McCormick Place North, Chicago IL
Who attends: America’s Beauty Show is ONLY for licensed salon professionals and students, NOT the general public. Some 70,000+ hairdressers, nail technicians, estheticians, salon owners, beauty school instructors and students, plus manufacturer and distributor personnel attend each year. ABS is produced by the association Cosmetologists Chicago, a not-for-profit organization with over 15,000+ members and counting. It is easily one of the largest professional events in the global beauty industry today. What to expect:
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Does your AACS school’s alumni include BeautyChangesLives scholarship winners? If so, we’d love to promote these beauty scholars’ success to industry media. Throughout the year, the BeautyChangesLives Foundation shares the success of BeautyChangesLives scholarship winners with beauty industry trade publications (look for a few interviewed in the April issues of NailPro and American Salon.) We aim to show how the scholarships – and careers in beauty – change lives. If you’d like us to consider your school’s BeautyChangesLives alums for industry news pitches, please contact lauren@beautychangeslives.org. 
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March is shaping up to be a pivotal month for state legislative activity. For the first time since January, less than 40 states – 37 to be exact – are in legislative session this week. We have also seen the first significant wave of 2018 legislative adjournments as between March 8 and 13 the following states have adjourned their regular legislative sessions sine die – Arkansas, Florida, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Louisiana however kicked off its legislative session on Monday – becoming the final state to do so in 2018. The sine die adjournment of Florida’s legislature last Friday killed measures – HB 1041, HB 15 and SB 1114 – that would have reduced the number of hours of training for barbers and restricted barbers from 1,200 to 600 for barbers and from 1,200 to 325 for restricted barbers. As previously reported, they also contained language reducing the amount of training hours required for specialty registrations from: 240 hours to 150 hours for nail specialists; 260 hours to 165 hours for facial specialists; and 500 hours to 300 hours for full specialists. Click here for more State Relations updates from Brian Newman. Member Events
Returning to the AACS School Leaders Summit, Tammy Heflebower is back to discuss competency-based education. During this session, School Owners and Thought Leaders will review components of highly reliable organizations, consider the value in competency requirements for beauty and wellness education, consider proficiency scales as a way to align expectations to requirements and consider valid performance assessments as a means for evaluating future professional. Sponsored by Pivot Point. Register for the School Leaders Summit & Capitol Hill Day today! Everything you need to know to be engaged with AACS' Political Action Committee (PAC). As we continue to build a modern association, we want to keep you fully informed about our work, and we’d like to share more information about what it means to utilize such a valuable tool to advance our advocacy. We’ve designed these webinars to help you understand how the creation of our PAC takes us into the future, and we invite you to learn about the work that AACS PAC can do on your behalf – but we need your help to get there. Please join us for our webinars to learn how you can be a part of our efforts. The webinar content will cover:
Register for one or both webinars by selecting the dates below: Thursday, March 22 – 1:00 pm EST Members in the News
Don’t forget to renew your AACS Membership for 2018 if you haven’t already. To avoid a gap in your member benefits, make sure you renew by March 31st! You can even renew online for added convenience. If you have any questions or would like to submit your payment over the phone, please contact Glen Fernandez or call 800.831.1086 for more details. It's been proven that employee training and development boosts employee and student retention, and it improves performance for all aspects of an institution. So when would be a good time to help your employees improve? Why not now? 
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