U.S. Department of Education Releases Guidance to Schools on Ensuring Equity and Providing Behavioral Supports to Students with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) issued guidance in the form of a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that emphasizes the requirement that schools must provide positive behavioral supports to students with disabilities who need them. To read more click the link below or the […]
Feds Target Texas’ Special Education Enrollment Problem
The U.S. Department of Education has written a three-page letter to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) commissioner Mike Morath about the findings in the Chronicle’s recent article concerning Texas’ declining Special Education population. The Chronicle exposed the state’s arbitrary 8.5 percent benchmark back in September, reporting that the policy has likely denied “tens of thousands” of students Special […]
Texas Special Education Camera Law Just Got a Lot Broader
There has been an update to the interpretation of the Special Education Camera Law. An article in Education Week tries to explain what law makers meant when the law was passed and then in a letter they wrote last year after the camera law was passed. There is definitely a […]
How Texas Keeps Tens of Thousands of Children Out of Special Education
This is a very interesting and informative article on how thousands of students are being denied Special Education services in Texas. You can see how the percentage of Special Education students has changed in your district since 2004. Simply choose or search for your district from the drop down menu […]
New online STAAR Guidelines
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has shared information on the new online version of STAAR that will be available beginning in March 2017. STAAR A (STAAR Accommodated) and STAAR L (linguistically accommodated English version of the STAAR) will no longer be used as the online version will take their place. What we […]