{"id":68,"date":"2008-06-23T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T21:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2008-07-13T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T18:02:09","slug":"deadline-june-30th-comments-due-on-va-special-education-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/deadline-june-30th-comments-due-on-va-special-education-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Special Ed Regulations &#8211; What Next?"},"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=\"VA%20Special%20Ed%20Regulations%20-%20What%20Next%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The Public Comment Period ended on June 30, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happens Next?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) will revise the proposed regulations in response to the public comments they received. They plan to publish their revised proposed regulations at the Virginia Board of Education meeting on September 25, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on how the draft regulations are revised and worded, we may need to call on you for help again. Here is a summary of what will happen this summer, and some good advice from Miss Manners. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In July, advocates who are knowledgeable about the Virginia regulations need to meet with VDOE staff, articulate our concerns, and provide guidance about language in the regulations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Advocates should plan to attend the Board of Education meeting on July 17 to reinforce our concerns and our strength. Advocates can also use the summer months to continue building our base of parents who understand the issues and who are willing to take action when the time comes this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Between now and September, parents need to get to know one another and strengthen relationships. If we spend this time getting stronger, when the next draft of the regulations is released in September, we will be in a position to work together and do what needs to be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parents and advocates need to be prepared to act quickly after the Board meeting on September 25, when the Board will act on the next draft of the regulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice from Miss Manners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some people find it hard to be patient through this long process. It is essential that parents and advocates are viewed as rational, reasonable and right. If we allow our emotions to get in the way of our advocacy efforts, if we are viewed as demanding, unrealistic, offensive, unreasonable, or unpredictable, we will lose our credibility and momentum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We continue to add updated information to the Wrightslaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/virginia\/regs.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Virginia Special Education Regulations<\/span><\/a> page at <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/virginia\/regs.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/virginia\/regs.index.htm<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Please check this page for updates.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Comment Period ended on June 30, 2008. What Happens Next?\u00a0 The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) will revise the proposed regulations in response to the public comments they <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/deadline-june-30th-comments-due-on-va-special-education-regulations\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,5,64],"tags":[1311],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-idea-2004","category-special-education-regulations","tag-special-education-regulations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}