District edicts to collect and approve
data on special education students added a significant workload to staff, while CPS «did not take any meaningful steps» to inform parents of the new requirements for obtaining classroom aides or transportation services.
Her experience in supervision and evaluation and her passion for supporting all students with a particular
focus on special education students and English Learners have brought her to CAS.
If Connecticut's numbers are representative of the national rate, it appears that more than 70 percent of restraints
used on special education students in public schools are not reported to the federal government, and more than 85 percent in charters.»
District edicts to collect and approve data
on special education students added a significant workload to staff, while the panel said CPS «did not take any meaningful steps» to inform parents of the new requirements for obtaining classroom aides or transportation services.
Because, if you are a charter school and you want to appear successful, you don't want to risk
taking on the special education students since they will inevitably lower the school's average Connecticut Mastery Test scores.
Mulgrew alerted delegates that by the end of April more than 30,000 UFT members would start receiving back pay for the after - hours work they have put in between September 2011 and Dec. 30, 2012 to complete their
work on the Special Education Student Information System.
In addition, in cases in which inclusion really means «mainstreaming» (special education students are «brought into» a regular classroom for certain periods of the day) or when special education professionals focus
solely on special education students instead of supporting, and interacting with, all students, individual differences are magnified and social isolation is increased.
Although ESSA does include some tighter
regulations on special education students (which CCSSO president Tony Evers called «even more onerous» than NCLB's), the basic premise of the law is that states will have greater freedom to set their own curriculum, identify low - performing schools, and craft appropriate remedies to improve them.
An Exceptional Child Certificate with a Generalist K / 12 Endorsement allows the certificate holder to teach any subject identified within goals and
objectives on a special education student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
For example, he makes the point that restraint and seclusion techniques are «disproportionately
used on special education students,» and yet that makes sense to those of us who have experience working in schools.
I once pointed out to the master of the universe, Steven Adamowski, that private charter schools had no more reason to
take on special education students than private insurance companies had for enrolling people with «pre-existing conditions.»
Civil rights groups point out NCLB places a
focus on special education students, as well as kids from poor, minority or non-English-speaking backgrounds — if these students don't improve, a school faces consequences under NCLB.
From that we can calculate that NYC spends an average of $ 24,773
on its special education students.
Detailed data
on special education students, racial makeup, curricular offerings and so forth is not easily accessible via the website.
The brief details six instructional strategies and presents data describing the effectiveness of
each on special education students and low - achieving students.