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	<description>A Private Law Firm - Allison Hertog, Esq., M.A.</description>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS &#8211; Can You Get McKay $ w/o Going Back to Public School?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under an incredible brand new law (HB 1505) disabled children can use the McKay Scholarship towards their private school tuition, if they have: a) never used the Scholarship before; and b) attended public school for any year in the last 5 years.**  That means that if your disabled child is now in private school without <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=386" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gov Christ Signs Law on Restraint and Seclusion of Students with Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 4, Gov Charlie Christ signed into law the state’s first regulations for the use of restraint and seclusion on public school students with disabilities. The law requires that a school prepare an incident report within a specified period after each occasion of student restraint or seclusion and that the school notify the student&#8217;s <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=409" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS &#8211; FL Will Pay for Private PreK Therapies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ABA Therapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Governor Crist signed into law what appears to be an extraordinary program for disabled prekindergarten children beginning with the 2012-13 school year.  The details are not clear yet, but here&#8217;s the deal in brief. If your disabled child will be 4 years old by September 1, 2012 and he or she gets an Individualized <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=385" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Extreme Chooser?  (How Far Would You Go to Find the Right School?)</title>
		<link>http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=369&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=are-you-an-extreme-chooser-how-far-do-you-go-to-find-the-right-school</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charter Schools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most parents are advocates of school choice -whether we identify ourselves that way or not.  We would choose to send our children to the best school in our neighborhood over the one which was just simply around the corner, that is, if we could.  Upper middle class parents routinely choose to buy homes in neighborhoods <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=369" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Transition to the &#8220;Real&#8221; World from FL Public Schools (in a bleak economy no less)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IEP Meetings]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transition Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vocational Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career preparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[florida high school]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IEP meetings are crucial for not only diploma planning, but also for transition planning and career preparation. Good transition goals in the IEP (which are critical years prior to high school graduation) can include workplace experiences that help students learn about employment settings and vocational opportunities and specific plans for developing self-determination skills. IDEA <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=144" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s New in Schools? &#8211;  It&#8217;s Called RtI</title>
		<link>http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=63&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=whats-new-in-special-ed-rti</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research-Based Intervention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Behavior Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting now it will be much harder (in fact, I think nearly impossible in Florida)to get your learning disabled ("LD") child special education services.  That said, special ed services historically haven't helped LD kids very much. So, let's hope these changes are all for the good. Children with behavior problems may not receive special ed services as easily as before either. ]]></description>
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		<title>RtI &#8211; the details</title>
		<link>http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=49&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=what-to-do-when</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RtI is a 3-tiered process of increasingly intensive research- based instruction which is part of federal law (IDEA 2004). At the end of the process (Tier 3), students who are still struggling in reading, math and/or behavior will be eligible for special education services (an "IEP"). The theory of RtI, which is to catch struggling students early and provide high quality research-based instruction, is great.]]></description>
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		<title>Special Education Vouchers Prevent Mislabeling, Study Says</title>
		<link>http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=236&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=special-education-vouchers-prevent-mislabeling-study-says</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inclusion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Education Vouchers Prevent Mislabeling, Study Says EdWeek Article I write from the Florida special needs voucher trenches – I am both an attorney for parents of disabled public school students and a fierce proponent of the McKay Scholarship. I don’t doubt the results of Greene and Winters’ study which addresses those students with “marginal” <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=236" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>If RtI Isn&#8217;t Working for Your Child: Knowing Your Legal Rights</title>
		<link>http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=235&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=if-rti-isnt-working-for-your-child-knowing-your-legal-rights</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eligibility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Response to Intervention (RtI) is a 3-tiered process of research-based instruction, which is part of federal law (IDEA 2004). Before RtI, in order to get considered for special education services (an &#8220;IEP&#8221;) the main thing your struggling learner needed was a psycho-educational evaluation (conducted by a private or public school psychologist). The evaluation needed to show <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=235" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Make School Work for Your Disabled Child</title>
		<link>http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=4&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=make-school-work-for-your-disabled-child</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonHertog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever wish you had someone to sit on your side of the table? Not just a lawyer.  Not just someone with first-hand experience teaching kids with disabilities.  But also a passionate advocate for your child&#8217;s needs.  Well, you&#8217;ve finally found one &#8211; me, Allison Hertog.﻿  I am one of only a handful of <a href="http://makingschoolwork.org/?p=4" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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