{"id":22838,"date":"2018-03-29T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=22838"},"modified":"2018-03-26T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:59:18","slug":"tea-special-education-improvement-plan-and-corrective-action-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/tea-special-education-improvement-plan-and-corrective-action-response\/","title":{"rendered":"TEA Special Education Improvement Plan and Corrective Action Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"TEA%20Special%20Education%20Improvement%20Plan%20and%20Corrective%20Action%20Response\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong>Update: March 19, 2018<\/strong> from the Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe TEA released the 42-page draft strategic plan Monday, a couple of months after a 15-month federal investigation concluded Texas had not been providing kids with disabilities the tools and services they needed to learn, likely failing to educate thousands of students and violating federal law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/kid.cute_.boy_.ai_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find the complete article here &#8211; <span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/03\/19\/tea-strategic-plan-special-ed\/\">In new plan, Texas Education Agency vows special education overhaul with limited dollars<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"> <a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/03\/19\/tea-strategic-plan-special-ed\/\">https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2018\/03\/19\/tea-strategic-plan-special-ed\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Federal officials found the state was effectively incentivizing school districts to keep their special education numbers low and that many teachers fundamentally misunderstood the legal requirements around educating kids with disabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After conversations with parents and advocates, the Texas Education Agency on Monday released a second draft of its plan for overhauling the way it educates students with disabilities \u2014 while highlighting the agency&#8217;s limitations on available funds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texans can provide commentary on the draft, which will be finalized and submitted to the federal government by April 18.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Proposed Plan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more information about the Corrective Action Response and the proposed draft of the Special Education Improvement Plan on the <a href=\"https:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/TexasSPED\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">TEA website<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/TexasSPED\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/TexasSPED\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the <span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Draft Special Education Improvement Plan and Corrective Action Response<\/span> (March 19, 2018)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/WorkArea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=51539620634\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/tea.texas.gov\/WorkArea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=51539620634<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Public Comment<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to provide specific comments on the current proposed draft Special Education Improvement Plan in writing by emailing <a href=\"mailto:TexasSPED@tea.texas.gov\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">TexasSPED@tea.texas.gov<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TEA will aggregate the feedback received before sending a final version to OSEP by April 18, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/tea-violated-federal-laws-corrective-action-ordered\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">TEA Violated Federal Laws &#8211; Corrective Action Ordered<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/tea-violated-federal-laws-corrective-action-ordered\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/tea-violated-federal-laws-corrective-action-ordered\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">INVESTIGATION: How Texas Keeps Tens of Thousands of Kids Out of Special Ed<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/investigation-how-texas-keeps-tens-of-thousands-of-kids-out-of-special-ed\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/investigation-how-texas-keeps-tens-of-thousands-of-kids-out-of-special-ed\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: March 19, 2018 from the Texas Tribune. \u201cThe TEA released the 42-page draft strategic plan Monday, a couple of months after a 15-month federal investigation concluded Texas had not <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/tea-special-education-improvement-plan-and-corrective-action-response\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,35,57,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-find","category-eligibility","category-fape","category-idea-2004"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22848,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22838\/revisions\/22848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}