Sentences with phrase «longtime special education advocate»
«It's understood that the department inherited this mess, and it is a mess,» said Ellen McHugh, a longtime special education advocate who also spoke at Monday's press conference.
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Jaye Bea Smalley, a longtime disabilities advocate who serves as co-president of the Citywide Council on Special Education, will join the Upper West Side's Community Board 7; the Rev. Keith Fennessy, a fifth - generation New Yorker and pastor of St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea, will join Community Board 4; and Sabrina Francis, an opera singer and music teacher at Round the Clock Daycare, will join Harlem's Community Board 9.
«It's a huge step in the right direction, but there's a lot of work to be done,» said Matt Cohen, a longtime special education attorney who helped represent the advocates and community groups that presented concerns to ISBE in November.