Judge Orders Search for MPS Students in Need of Special Education
On June 21, 2009 the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported: “A federal judge has ordered Milwaukee Public Schools to launch a wide search for students who didn’t get special education services they should have gotten between 2000 and 2005 and to figure out what needs to be done to make that up to them.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Aaron Goodstein ordered that someone from outside the system be hired to monitor work on providing education services to compensate the students or former students involved because MPS has not shown it will adequately remedy its problems in special education on its own.” (emphasis added)
Read about the lawsuit that dates from 2001… Class Action Lawsuit
Tags: Child Find · Compensatory Education · Eligibility · Indentification · Legal Decisions · Legal News · Special Ed Law3 Comments
I am a counselor with the local mental health agency. I’m working with a 4 year old boy who has been “kicked out of” two preschool programs for behavior problems. He is diagnosed with ADHD. He has not been tested by the local school district. They refuse to offer him services because of his behavior.
What can you do if a school team refuses to evaluate a child?
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