special education

Texas plans to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into fixing the state's beleaguered special-education system. As The Houston Chronicle reports, the Texas Education Agency plans to spend nearly $212 million over the next five years to help students with special needs. The news comes in the wake of a ...

DAVENPORT, Ia. (KWQC) - An audit completed by the Iowa Department of Education determined several areas of the the Davenport Community School District's special education program are "out of compliance." According to the report, seven areas are out of compliance with the Individuals with ...

A week ago Schwegler says the Urbandale CSD notified her that her fourth grade son Joey, who is autistic, will be forced to switch schools and attend Webster Elementary along with other level three special education students next school year. He's been here since Pre-K. He's grown up with these kids.

The Patchogue-Medford School District plans to revamp their special education programming through an enhancement plan by providing more support and more training for teachers. The initiative will be included in the 2018-19 budget with additional support to help transition special education students ...

Ms. Mulkern, who was known as Teddy, was one of many advocates who helped create the state's special education law, Chapter 766. She also formerly chaired the state Department of Education's Regional Advisory Council for Special Education. As an administrator or teacher, she led by example.

CLEAR LAKE | Retiring after more than 30 years as a Clear Lake special education teacher was a difficult decision for Geri Berding. She loved her job, she loved her coworkers and she loved her students. “It was the hard decision, but it was the right decision to make,” she said. Berding was diagnosed with ...

The effort is intended to allow the special education students to attend the same high school prom as their peers, at no cost. Faculty donate money to cover the cost of tickets for the students and arrange for donations of flowers and corsages through a staff member's mother, who is a florist. They gather the ...

A group of Windsor parents, including D'Angelo, launched the new committee called ACE It 25 in January as part of an effort to create an organization that is sensitive to the issues facing families with children in special education programs, D'Angelo said. In the 1990s, the group was called the Exceptional ...

For this round of Education Lab IQ (Interesting Questions), we're investigating your questions about how special education works in Washington, ... When national consultants met with district staff that same year, they heard four different versions of how parent complaints about special education were ...

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson knows the public's trust in the district needs to be repaired after a state investigation into its special education programming, but she's asking for community support as they attempt to fix “systemic problems.” Jackson pledged to right the wrongs state education ...

Jessica Brown. jbrown@dawsonnews.com. Updated: April 17, 2018, 8:47 p.m.. There was hardly a dry eye in the audience when, Hershel Bennett, director of the Exceptional Children program, took the podium at Monday night's board of education meeting. “Tonight's a big night for exceptional children. It's like our Oscars,” ...

It was preceded by a protest outside the administration building by special education advocates and ended in shouting and a call to the Grand Rapids Police Department over an alleged altercation between the head of school security, Larry Johnson and leader of the advocate group, Lily Cheng Schulting.

Several parents urged Park Ridge-Niles District 64 officials to rethink the scope of the now-underway audit of the district's special education programs to allow for a more thorough and independent assessment of the district's programs. Lisa Harrod, of LMT Consulting, will be paid no more than $15,000 to ...

“Since I am going into special education, I figured why not do something with that,” Thomson said. “It is basically our final for English class. We had to have 15 hours of community service and then have to make a presentation to a board of people. So when my event is done, I have to go make a presentation ...

Chicago Public Schools will provide about $60 million in additional funding to schools for the next academic year, an increase district officials said will cover salary increases for unionized teachers and restore a special education funding model that was abandoned amid much controversy in 2016.

Among other things, Hughes, Palmieri and their supporters hope the Illinois State Board of Education, which launched the probe, will appoint an “independent monitor” to oversee changes with special education at CPS. The state probe comes on the heels of a WBEZ investigation, which found that CPS had ...

“Our Minnesota school districts have had to find ways to cover the unfunded costs of special education for decades, and it places a huge burden on their already stressed budgets," said Brenda Cassellius, Minnesota Department of Education commissioner. "Our school districts tell us this is a priority, and we ...