Posts for 'Special Education' Category

Project Milwaukee is underway this week on WUWM. We’re examining the barriers that block some students in Milwaukee Public Schools from achieving at a higher level. Today, we report on the growing number of MPS children facing learning, behavioral and physical challenges. As Erin Toner reports, the district has been fighting a lawsuit that claims MPS has failed such students, while the district insists it is making progress. Walk into any public school in Milwaukee, and you’ll find streams of instruction flowing in some classrooms. It’s called inclusion. In this third-grade class at Gaenslen School, the teacher is working with the kids on spelling. In the back, a special education teacher is adapting the lesson for blond-haired Patrick.

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Parents of special education students are concerned about how the Morgan School District is spending federal stimulus money and promise to keep a close eye on it handles money in the future. "I want someone to come up with a plan and reason why we should be spending taxpayer money on items and what benefit that is going to have on my student," said parent Tina Cannon.

"If you're going to spend money just to spend money, then find a way to make it useful. We want what is best with the funds allocated for those children. The district should be responsible to taxpayers."The district received $364,400 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus money meant specifically for special education.

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Joliet Township High School Board took a stand Tuesday night by voting against the placement of two special education students at out-of-district facilities. However, that vote may put the district in violation of state and federal regulations under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Without any discussion or explanation, the board voted 6-1 to not place a student at Guardian Angel Community Services' Dillard Harris Educational Center and a student at Hopewell Career Academy, both in Joliet, which surprised Superintendent Paul Swanstrom. Swanstrom said he has never seen a board vote against out-of-district placements for special education students.

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SO WOEFUL was the District's performance in busing special education students that a federal judge had to take control. Court-appointed administrator David Gilmore remembers how the system struggled, managing to get, on average, just 30 percent of children to school on time. That was assuming the buses even showed up. Seven years later, the judge has agreed to return responsibility to the District. That is a significant vote of confidence that Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is right to celebrate. Gilmore had reported to the judge that the city is "consistently providing safe, timely and appropriate" services. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education will assume responsibility while Mr. Gilmore monitors a transition set to end, barring any problems, on Oct. 1.

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Remember back to kindergarten? Did you ever wonder where other children went when they disappeared for hours, returning only for naptime or lunch?

At Hazel Harvey Elementary, Xavier Pandrea's classmates never need to wonder where he goes when they're not looking.

Xavier, a special education student, might be different, but he participates in many of the same activities as his peers, said Intervention Specialist Victoria Hessey. "We want to expose him as much as possible to the regular curriculum and classroom," she said.

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The Orange Schools met or exceeded all state expectations for special education for the 2008-2009 school year, according to Matt Deevers, director of educational programs and instructions. Deevers told the Board of Education Monday the recent report showed Orange is in rare company and had “outperformed” many neighboring school districts. State and federal departments of education have set 20 indicators for evaluating school performance in special education under the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act.

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Special education can be defined as specially configured instructions and other education-related services to meet the educational, social, emotional, and vocational needs of students with disabilities. Special education teachers educate students who have various types of disabilities, including speech or language impairments, mental retardation, emotional distress, hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, multiple disabilities, specific learning disabilities, visual impairments, autism, combined blindness and deafness, traumatic brain injury, and other health impairments. A special educator has to work with students of all ages from infants and toddlers, students in elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as youths. The special educator's job also involves working with a team of professionals, i.e., doctors, speech pathologists, social workers, orthopedists, psychiatrists, counselors, etc. The teaching methods and techniques in special education would vary based on the disability and it would also vary from individual to individual.

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Voters at the special Town Meeting on Monday night took action to keep some of the money they spend on special education in the town.By an overwhelming 157-3 tally, the Town Meeting transferred "up to $86,625" to establish a tuition-based substantially separate classroom program at the Assawompset Elementary School. The money, which came out of the town's stabilization account, will pay the tuitions for Lakeville special education students.In establishing a special education elementary level separate classroom, Lakeville is not only trying to save money by keeping their special needs students in town, but also using the program as an income producer by providing seats in the classroom to students from neighboring towns.

The program will run from January to June, once the Freetown-Lakeville region provides the full-time teacher. The region provided one teacher for Lakeville and one for Freetown.The teacher for that classroom in Lakeville started today and we're interviewing for the teacher to be hired for Freetown," Superintendent of Schools John C. McCarthy said. "When the students return from Christmas vacation, that classroom will be operating.Selectman Nancy Yeatts explained that this is the way of the future.

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 The regional cooperative agency that provides state-mandated special educational services to the six school districts of northwest Colorado is in financial trouble. BOCES is in arrears some $777,000 in federal reimbursement payments to the schools in the Northwest district for the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years, leaving West Grand with a $139,000 budget shortfall and East Grand with a $220,000 shortfall, according to school district officials.

In mid-September, BOCES administrators came to its board of directors, made up of representatives from each of the six member districts, with the news that it had overspent its 2008-09 budget by $316,000. Staff also alerted the board that it would need to increase its 2009-10 assessment by more than $472,000 to balance its budget.BOCES claims that the reason for the shortfall was that they under-assessed the services provided to the districts.

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