Sentences with phrase «said special education advocate»

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«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.

Hundreds of Yonkers education advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffeducation advocates said at the Capitol today that the district needs an additional $ 26 million from the state to avoid a Board of Education plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffEducation plan that would cut all sports, limit supplies, reduce special education and eliminate as many as 200 staffeducation and eliminate as many as 200 staff members.

During his City Council campaign, Landesman advocated for special education and said he planned on making that a focus of the board's Youth and Education ceducation and said he planned on making that a focus of the board's Youth and Education cEducation committee.

At a conference, Dr. Naomi Zigmond, a professor of special education at the University of Pittsburgh, said she advocates assigning special education students to separate classes and providing them with «intensive, relentless instruction.»

«Public Advocate James» principled position remains consistent: forced co-locations must not move forward without parents» input or when they result in overcrowding, students being warehoused in trailers, loss of space for special education and physical education, and elementary students being mixed with high school students,» her office said in a statement.

Addressing more than 1,300 health professionals, special - education experts, advocates for the disabled, and parents at a conference here, Dr. Koop said that too many handicapped and chronically ill children are not receiving timely and adequate care.

Advocates and parents say the case dramatically expands the rights of special - education students in the United States, creates a nationwide standard for special education, and empowers parents as they advocate for their children in schools.

In a unanimous 8 - 0 decision that advocates say expands the rights of special education students, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, «appropriately ambitious» progress.

«School boards across the nation have advocated for an increased federal investment in key programs such as special education,» said Deborah A. Rigsby, Director, Federal Legislation, National School Boards Association.

«She was an incredible asset to the SBE, not only as a charter school leader, but as a special education advocate and overall education expert,» said Colin Miller, Vice President, Policy for the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA).

«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.

«They have targets on their back, and with a child who already has a disability, the damage can be greater,» said Ellen Callegary, an attorney and special - education advocate for more than 30 years, who is part of a coalition of advocates pressing for changes at the state level.

On the other side of the divide, supporting Gundersen's view, are special education advocates like Sheldon Horowitz, senior director of learning resources and research at the National Center for Learning Disabilities, who said that most special education students should be expected to meet rigorous standards, just like their peers.

DeVos hearing: In her confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary, Betsy DeVos says she will be «a strong advocate for great public schools,» but «if a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child — perhaps they have a special need that is going unmet — we should support a parent's right to enroll their child in a high - quality alternative.»

But special education advocates at school of education across the state say the new rules open up a pathway for a college graduate without formal training to become a teacher, so long as he or she can pass a certification exam.

Advocates say that they provide more choices for students with special needs, or who feel underserved by the local schools that service their neighborhood — they say that the quality of a child's education should not be determined by zip code alone.

But — so long as the teacher can earn «effective» ratings from their school district for three out of five years — special education advocates say he or she could keep a teaching job while holding a credential called an «adjunct permit.»

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Associationeducation — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Associationeducation teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education AssociationEducation Association Council.