What To Do When the IEP Meeting Is Too Short
When is an IEP meeting too short? Can an IEP team review and revise a child’s IEP in 25-30 minutes?
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Category Archives: School Culture
Justice Department Settles with Florida in Class Removals Discrimination Case
On August 3, 2021, the Department of Justice reached a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with Volusia County Schools (Florida) to address allegations that the district punished Continue Reading →
Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Fry v. Napoleon Comm. School et. al
Update: On February 22, 2017, the United States Supreme Court vacated and remanded the Sixth Circuit’s Decision in Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, framing new standards and limits to the Continue Reading →
Inclusion Matters to Everyone!
From Jim Comstock-Galagan – If you want people to understand the matter of inclusion, you make them understand it for themselves. How would inclusion relate to them? Jim understood when Continue Reading →
School Police: Good Idea? Bad Idea?
Bringing police into public schools is a trend that exploded in the 1990s, after high-profile school shooting incidents at Columbine and Jonesboro. When a reader asked a question about school Continue Reading →
No F’s Allowed? Teacher Sues for Harassment & Retaliation
Sue Goudreau, a fourth grade teacher, is suing her principal and other school officials after the principal ordered teachers to alter grades so no child received a failing grade. Ms. Continue Reading →
Protecting Bullies, Not the Bullied, Seems to be the Rule in Our Schools
In Mass, parents are reporting that their children are refusing to go to class, have dropped out of sports, stopped trying to socialize, refused to go to class and in Continue Reading →
Strategies – When the Juvenile Justice System Operates on “Blind Trust”
What can a juvenile do if a juvenile court judge operates on “blind trust” with regard to the school system? Doesn’t the court have to be told the student has Continue Reading →
Handcuffs? Bruises? Disability Rights Files Suit Against Wake County Schools
On Thursday, September 18, Pete and Pam presented a special education law and advocacy training program in Chapel Hill, NC. After checking in, we picked up an email from an Continue Reading →
