education What Parents Need to Know About the Special Education Evaluation By schoolpsychologistfiles.blogspot.com Published On :: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:36:00 +0000 I spend most days of my life working with various students who are at different parts in the sped referral process. I attend Child Study Meetings where we decide if we are going to evaluate a student. I observe and screen children and talk with parents and teachers to help the committee make a good decision about whether we should do a special education evaluation. I evaluate those students (this includes Psychological testing, observations, talking with student/teacher/parent, doing rating scales, etc.). I attend eligibility meetings where we determine if the student is eligible for for special education services. All of this is second nature to me and sometimes I need to stop and remember when a parent comes in, that this is NEW. When I talk to parents, I find that many parents do not fully understand the special education referral process, even when they nod and act like they do. We as school staff need to do a better job of helping the parents understand the process. Parents also need to speak up and ask questions when there is not understanding. This is a guide for parents to understand the process of special education testing, the testing components, and some of the test data. It is important to note that schools systems and states will vary to some degree. If you have any questions about the process in your school system, ask your school psychologist, teacher, or principal. Parents have every right to ask questions and usually school personnel are happy to help make this process less anxiety-provoking for you. It is important for parents to understand their rights during the special education process.Special Education ProcessAfter data shows that interventions have been attempted and if a student is suspected of having a disability, a referral is made to evaluate him or her for special education testing. Once the parents sign the Permission for Testing Forms, timelines begin and the schools have 65 business days to complete the assessments and hold the eligibility meeting. Some states may have a different timeline. During these 65 days, several testing components will be completed with you and your child. The evaluators will write reports and a copy will be given to parents at the eligibility meeting. However, schools are required to have a copy available for parents to pick up two days before the eligibility meeting. It is advised, that parents take advantage of this and read reports before the meeting to help get familiar with the information and to formulate questions. The reports hold a lot of information that can be overwhelming if you are not familiar with this type of testing. Read Understanding Test Scores to understand the types of tests used and what the scores mean.Additionally, the meeting is likely to bring forth strong emotions as your child’s difficulties are discussed openly. It can be overwhelming for parents, especially when not prepared. When parents do not read the reports prior to the eligibility meeting, they are the only people at the table who come to the meeting not knowing what to expect.What if My Child is Found ELIGIBLE for Special Education Services?Once a child is eligible for special education services, the schools have 30 days to develop an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for the student. This will consist of accommodations, goals, and describe the services offered. Parents are part of a committee to help create this document. Once it is signed, schools are legally required to follow it. It is reviewed once a year, unless parents or teachers feel that changes are necessary. Every three years, the committee will determine if the student should be reevaluated. This is called a triennial evaluation. Sometimes another full evaluation will be conducted, other times a review of records and updated teacher information is used.What if My Child is Found INELIGIBLE for Special Education Services?If your child was found ineligible for special education services and you agree with the eligibility findings, then your child will not receive special education. He or she was evaluated because of a problem that still needs to be addressed within regular education. Ask for a separate meeting with your teacher or a team to determine what accommodations or strategies can be used to help.If you believe that your child requires special education services and has a disability, but was found ineligible for services, make an appointment to meet with the special education director. If an agreement cannot be reached, you may be able to have an Independent Evaluation at the expense of the school. The results of that testing will be brought back to an eligibility meeting. A child MUST have 2 things before they can receive special education services: They must have a disability and there must be a documented educational impact that the student requires special education services to be successful. Full Article
education Check out this Awesome Special Education Infographic by USC Rossier By schoolpsychologistfiles.blogspot.com Published On :: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:56:00 +0000 USC Rossier Online Full Article
education A Profile of Current DACA Recipients by Education, Industry, and Occupation By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:10:56 -0500 An average of 915 DACA recipients every day will lose their work authorization and protection from deportation once the phaseout of the program moves into full force in spring 2018, MPI estimates. This fact sheet also offers U.S. and state estimates of the school enrollment and educational attainment, workforce participation, and industries and occupations of employment for the nearly 690,000 current DACA holders. Full Article
education Mainstreaming 2.0: How Europe’s Education Systems Can Boost Migrant Inclusion By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:22:18 -0500 Rising numbers of young immigrants and refugees entering European schools following the 2015–16 migration crisis strained system capacity and injected new urgency into debates about how to support diverse learners and their families. This report examines the challenges facing European education systems and identifies key lessons to improve migrant inclusion in schools and integration more broadly. Full Article
education Effectively Serving Children in a Superdiverse Classroom: Implications for the Early Education System By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:29:16 -0500 As the number and share of Dual Language Learners (DLLs) continues to grow across the United States, diversity within this population is also increasing. This webinar marks the release of a report providing analysis of the diversity within the DLL population nationwide and at the state and local levels. Speakers discuss data on the three rapidly growing subgroups within the DLL population: Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander DLLs and young children of refugees, and the implications for the early education and care field and K-12 education systems. Full Article
education Responding to Early Childhood Education and Care Needs of Children of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Europe and North America By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:14:31 -0500 Marking the release of an MPI report, this webinar examines the challenges and successes major host countries in Europe and North America are experiencing in providing high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children from refugee and asylum seeker families. Full Article
education Immigrants and the New Brain Gain: Ways to Leverage Rising Educational Attainment By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:24:43 -0400 A recent MPI study reveals that 48 percent of recent immigrants to the United States were college graduates, a sharp increase over earlier periods. How can the United States better leverage this brain gain? This commentary outlines some policies that could allow the United States to more fully utilize the professional and academic credentials that highly skilled immigrants have, for their benefit and that of the U.S. economy. Full Article
education The Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:29:06 -0400 The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is uncertain, amid skepticism from the Trump administration about its merits and the promise of legal challenge from ten state attorneys general. This issue brief presents a profile of young adults eligible for DACA in terms of their educational attainment and labor force participation, as well as what is at stake should the program be terminated. Full Article
education Surviving vs. Thriving: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Adult Education for Immigrants and Refugees By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:58:18 -0400 Marking the release of an MPI brief that articulates a new adult education program model, this webinar features a discussion among immigration and legal services, adult education, and digital learning experts. The webinar includes a discussion of strategies to implement the English Plus Integration model, which would maintain a central focus on English language acquisition while also building skills necessary for successful immigrant integration. Full Article
education Surviving vs. Thriving: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in Adult Education for Immigrants and Refugees By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:45:52 -0400 Taking stock of weaknesses in the WIOA-driven design of most adult basic education programming, MPI analysts draw on research from the integration, adult education, and postsecondary success fields in arguing for the adoption of an “English Plus Integration” (EPI) adult education program model, and discuss strategies for implementation. Full Article
education MPI Analysis of All State ESSA Accountability Plans Finds Fractured Picture of Education Policy for English Learners & Differing Approaches By www.migrationpolicy.org Published On :: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:45:31 -0500 WASHINGTON – Four years since the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law, all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have developed accountability plans that include blueprints for serving English Learners (ELs), as well as measuring these students’ progress and being accountable for their outcomes. This marked a significant development, as EL performance was previously not well integrated with factors that determined whether a school was performing well or poorly. Full Article
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education Accidental Education By decisions-and-info-gaps.blogspot.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:31:00 +0000 "He had to take that life as he best could, with such accidental education as luck had given him". Henry AdamsI am a university professor. Universities facilitate efficient and systematic learning, so I teach classes, design courses, and develop curricula. Universities have tremendously benefitted technology, the economy, health, cultural richness and awareness, and many other "goods".Nonetheless, some important lessons are learned strictly by accident. Moreover, without accidental surprises, education would be a bit dry, sometimes even sterile. As Adams wrote: "The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught."An example. I chose my undergraduate college because of their program in anthropology. When I got there I took a chemistry course in my first semester. I was enchanted, by the prof as much as by the subject. I majored in chemistry and never went near the anthro department. If that prof had been on sabbatical I might have ended up an anthropologist.Universities promote lifelong learning. College is little more than a six-pack of knowledge, a smattering of understanding and a wisp of wisdom. But lifelong learning doesn't only mean "come back to grad school". It means perceiving those rarities and strangenesses that others don't notice. Apples must have fallen on lots of peoples' heads before some clever fellow said "Hmmm, what's going on here?".Accidental education is much more than keeping your eyes and mind open (though that is essential). To understand the deepest importance of accidental education we need to enlist two concepts: the boundlessness of the unknown, and human free will. We will then understand that accidental education feeds the potential for uniqueness of the individual.As we have explained elsewhere, in discussing grand unified theories and imagination, the unknown is richer and stranger - and more contradictory - than the single physical reality that we actually face. The unknown is the realm of all possible as well as impossible worlds. It is the domain in which our dreams and speculations wander. It may be frightening or heartening, but taken as a whole it is incoherent, contradictory and endlessly amazing, variable and stimulating.We learn about the unknown in part by speculating, wondering, and dreaming (awake and asleep). Imagining the impossible is very educational. For instance, most things are impossible for children (from tying their shoes to running the country), but they must be encouraged to imagine that they can or will be able to do them. Adults also can re-make themselves in line with their dreams. We are free and able to imagine ourselves and the world in endless new and different ways. Newton's apple brought to his mind a picture of the universe unlike any that had been imagined before. Surprises, like dreams, can free us from the mundane. Cynics sometimes sneer at personal or collective myths and musings, but the ability to re-invent ourselves is the essence of humanity. The children of Israel imagined at Sinai that the covenant was given directly to them all - men, women and children equally - with no royal or priestly intermediary. This launched the concept and the possibility of political equality.The Israelites had no map of the desert because the promised land that they sought was first of all an idea. Only after re-inventing themselves as a free people created equal in the image of God, and not slaves, only after finding a collective identity and mission, only then could they enter the land of Canaan. Theirs wanderings were random and their discoveries were accidental, but their formative value is with us to this day. No map or curriculum can organize one's wandering in the land of imagination. Unexpected events happen in the real world, but they stimulate our imagination of the infinity of other possible worlds. Our most important education is the accidental stumbling on new thoughts that feed our potential for innovation and uniqueness. For the receptive mind, accidental education can be the most sublime. Full Article
education Educational Opportunities and Performance in Massachusetts By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes. Full Article Massachusetts
education Deval Patrick, Obama Education Ally, Announces Presidential Run By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 A businessman, Patrick served two terms as governor of Massachusetts and has credited education with his own dramatic rise to success. Full Article Massachusetts
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education ECOT Looms Over Ohio Gubernatorial Candidates' Education Plans By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Any discussion in politics of the future of education in Ohio inevitably turns to the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. Full Article Ohio
education Educational Opportunities and Performance in Ohio By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes. Full Article Ohio
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education Oklahoma Orders Tulsa District to Review All Students' Special Education Plans By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 The decision comes after a state investigation of one Tulsa school found that the individualized education programs for students there frequently used generic educational goals. Full Article Oklahoma
education I Was an Angry Teacher Fighting for Better Education Policy. Now, I'm Shaping It By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 What goes on behind all the closed doors in politics? Most teachers never get a chance to find out, writes teacher-turned-politician John Waldron. Full Article Oklahoma
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education Right-to-Education Ruling Jolts Education-Advocacy World By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2020-04-29T11:36:00-04:00 The decision by a federal appeals court recognizing the right to a basic minimum education may be felt far beyond the substandard Detroit schools underlying it, but hurdles could remain. Full Article Education
education This Pandemic Is No Time to Backtrack on Special Education By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2020-05-05T00:00:00-04:00 It's worth remembering how far we've come on educating students with disabilities, writes Nebraska's education commissioner Matthew L. Blomstedt. Full Article Education
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education Hogan vetoes major education bill, cites virus budget impact By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2020-05-07T21:29:57-04:00 Full Article Education
education Wyoming Faces $700 Million Education Budget Deficit By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 As in several other states dependent on tax revenue from natural resources, Wyoming legislators are looking for ways to make millions of dollars in education budget cuts. Full Article Wyoming
education Wyoming, Idaho Laws Expand K-12 Computer Science Education By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 All districts in Wyoming will be required to provide K-12 computer science instruction, and Idaho high schools will offer at least one high school CS course. Full Article Wyoming
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education Special Education Enrollment Increases in Texas in Wake of Newspaper Investigation By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 About 14,000 more students in the state are enrolled in special education, after the state lifted what it called a "benchmark" enrollment figure of 8.5 percent. Full Article Texas
education Ed. Dept. Seeks to Halt Texas' Special Education Enrollment Benchmark By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 The U.S. Department of Education said Texas must stop using a guideline for special education enrollment that may have led to thousands of children being denied services they were qualified to receive. Full Article Texas
education Ed. Dept. to Host Listening Tour On Texas Special Education Enrollment By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Officials want to hear from parents, students and educators in the wake of a newspaper series that said Texas is suppressing special education enrollment. Full Article Texas
education Last Day to Submit Comments on Texas Special Education Enrollment By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Jan. 6 is the last day to submit comments to the U.S. Department of Education about their experiences with Texas' special education identification processes. Full Article Texas
education Texas Illegally Suppressed Special Education Enrollment, Ed. Dept. Finds By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 The federal office of special education programs said the state failed to ensure that students were properly evaluated for special education, as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Full Article Texas
education Feds Plan Fresh Oversight of Texas Special Education Plan By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 The state has developed an extensive plan for fixing a violation of federal special education law, but federal officials want to see additional corrective actions and plan a visit to follow up. Full Article Texas
education Texas Directed to Take Additional Actions to Remedy Special Education Violations By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Thousands of Texas children are believed to have been kept from special education services because of a now-prohibited special education enrollment target of 8.5 percent, which is well below the national average. Full Article Texas
education Educational Opportunities and Performance in Texas By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes. Full Article Texas
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education Several States Propose Budget Cuts, Education Mostly Unharmed By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Lawmakers in Michigan, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Utah have all gave previews this to their 2018 fiscal year budget proposals. Full Article North_Dakota