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Don’t Let Your School Get Away with Denying an Evaluation to Your Child
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Every so often the government takes a powerful stance on the side of the less powerful. January 21, 2011 was one of those moments. On that date the United States Department of Education released a memo to the State Directors of Special Education stating that schools cannot deny or delay a [...]
Testing Makes McKay Scholarships Accountable to Parents – a post from the redefinED Blog
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In Robyn Rennick’s post on Florida’s McKay Scholarships for Students With Disabilities last week, she argued that standardized testing measures are “inappropriate,” even “cruel,” for disabled children due to their diverse levels of achievement and in some cases immeasurable levels of progress. But [...]
Miami-Dade School District Cut ESE Funding by Over $46 Million, Broward – $32 Million!
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If you’ve heard your child’s teachers complaining more than ever about scarce classroom resources – or worse, your child has lost classroom support, such as a paraprofessional or an extra teacher – there’s a reason. The most recent data gathered by Washington, DC – based Advocacy Institute shows [...]
BREAKING NEWS – FL Will Pay for Private PreK Therapies
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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’s the deal in brief.
If your disabled child will be 4 years old by September 1, 2012 and he or [...]
Are You an Extreme Chooser? (How Far Would You Go to Find the Right School?)
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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 [...]
Transition to the “Real” World from FL Public Schools (in a bleak economy no less)
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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 [...]
What’s New in Schools? – It’s Called RtI
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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.
RtI – the details
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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.
