Special Education Law and Advocacy
I am having difficulty finding who is required to attend the initial Evaluation Team Report (ETR) meeting to determine eligibility. Are special education teachers required to attend or is it Continue Reading →
Can the IEP team refuse to place a child in special education due to excessive absences, even though an evaluation points to the need for placement? No, the opposite is Continue Reading →
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Sometimes the best way to approach an IEP team is through the heart. One of our readers, Nan, offered some interesting ideas about how to approach the IEP team to Continue Reading →
My child has an IEP for ‘learning disability’ services. The school says she no longer has a learning disability and told me her IEP would expire at the end of Continue Reading →
Does my daughter, who has an IEP, have to be served by resource classes or can she be totally in mainstream classrooms? “Special education” under IDEA is not a place Continue Reading →
For Brian and me, the autistic behaviors of Jack, our now six year old son, first appeared at age 10 months. Nearly one year later, we finally received the diagnosis Continue Reading →
Are teachers being “scapegoated” or are American taxpayers being fleeced by our education system? Last month we posted a link to an article about reactions from national teachers’ unions to Continue Reading →
Check out these top 10 signs you might be suffering from “special ed advocate burn out” – submitted by one of our favorite Texas advocates. 10. You think of the Continue Reading →
Join Pete and Pam Wright on April 30 and May 1, 2010 for a Wrightslaw 2- Day Boot Camp in beautiful Portland, Maine. The Maine Parent Federation is sponsoring this Continue Reading →
