Aug 13, 2013 | Advocacy, Charter School, Disability, IEPs, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School, Special Education |
I was beginning to become recognized as a resource for all parents of children with disabilities. In my interactions with parents I learned about a wide variety of disabilities and how they impacted children’s access to an education. ( Specific Disabilities ) The...
Jul 19, 2013 | Advocacy, Behavior Plan, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Parent Involvement, Public School, Special Education |
I had made some changes in policy and services in my community applying things I had read and learned from others. My son had settled in and all the other children with hearing impairments had been placed in age and grade appropriate settings. All but one … His...
Jul 8, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Public School |
The day finally arrived when I went to the mailbox and peered inside to find a fat letter with a return address from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in Atlanta, Georgia. I opened it and began to read. OCR had found in their investigation that our school district...
Jul 1, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, IEPs, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Public School, Special Education |
I returned home with renewed purpose empowered with all this new information and now a job to provide it to other parents. I also had the new tools of the computer and internet and email. I surfed the web reading and learning more. I understood that this was about...
Jun 28, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Public School, Special Education |
Still no word from OCR and the school year had come to a close. My son returned home and went off to summer school but with an extra five hours a day minus bus time to spend and was back in his own neighborhood. I signed him up for the local sports programs like...
Jun 18, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, IEPs, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Public School |
The complaint was filed and we would have to await the ruling. The length of time for the complaint investigation to be processed by OCR was considerably longer than that under the State complaint. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ocrcpm.html) OCR can...
