Principal Fife was the captain of the good ship HMS Middle School. He knew his mission, keep the school ship shape, hatches battened down, and sailing straight. Through twenty years serving in her majesty’s local education agency he’d successfully weathered the storms sent his way. Why then had the IEP meeting he just chaired [...]
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Congress originally passed the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) in 1974 to provide federal funding to states to support Child Protective Service Agencies to help prevent child abuse. Over the years, CAPTA has been amended several times, most recently in 2003 by the Keeping Families and Children Safe Act. Additionally, research has [...]
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Yesterday New Jersey’s Governor Corzine signed into law state legislation placing the burden of proof in all special education due process hearings on the school districts regardless of whether the parents or the school district requested the hearing. Similar to New York’s legislation passed last fall, this bill rectifies the Supreme Court decision in [...]
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Apparently, some schools or school districts have refused to allow qualified students with disabilities the opportunity to participate in challenging academic programs such as Advanced Placement or Baccalaureate classes or other accelerated programs. Moreover, some schools and school districts have required that students with disabilities give up their specialized services in order to participate [...]
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Joanna was frustrated. She had just been assigned to be the social worker for a three year old girl with fetal alcohol syndrome who was in the hospital. The little girl was scheduled to be assessed by the school district to determine if she should receive special education services. Joanna knew that the girl’s [...]
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