What To Do When the IEP Meeting Is Too Short
When is an IEP meeting too short? Can an IEP team review and revise a child’s IEP in 25-30 minutes?
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Category Archives: School Culture
Did the School District Restrain and/or Isolate Young Children with Disabilities?
In October 2020, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into seclusion and restraint against children with disabilities in Frederick County Public Schools (MD). On December 1, Continue Reading →
Justice Department Settles with Florida District in Class Removals Discrimination Case
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On August 3, 2021, the Department of Justice reached a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Volusia County Schools (Florida) to address allegations that the district punished Continue Reading →
Parapro at the “End-of-her-Rope!” Any comments?
We received an email from a para who feels like she is at her wit’s end, with nowhere to go. She asked if we could help by posing her dilemma Continue Reading →
Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Fry v. Napoleon Comm. School et. al
Update: On February 22, 2017, the United States Supreme Court vacated and remanded the Sixth Circuit’s Decision in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, framing new standards and limits to the Continue Reading →
POLL: Is Your School Doing a Great Job?
The results of the 2013 Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), show that fourth- and eighth-graders made incremental progress in math and reading. The scores show Continue Reading →
Early Math Teachers Celebrate ‘Critical Thinking, NOT Correct Answers’
Please tell me this is a joke. Early Math Teachers Celebrate ‘Critical Thinking, Not Correct Answers’ This article begins by quantifying a serious long-standing problem: “Just 40 percent of 4th-graders Continue Reading →
Inclusion Matters to Everyone!
From Jim Comstock-Galagan – If you want people to understand the matter of inclusion, you make them understand it for themselves. How would inclusion relate to them? Jim understood when Continue Reading →
Class Actions – Not a Primary Vehicle for Accomplishing Change
We think the school system continues to prey on parents in I.E.P. meetings. Having good information is valuable but does no good when the school preys on parents knowing full Continue Reading →
Special Ed Funding: A Sorry State of Affairs
As a therapist, I often run into the challenges to get the children and adolescents the services that they need. How do you in times of limited budgets, get the Continue Reading →
