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...
Jun 16, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School |
The next attempt at advocating for my son was to look at basic civil rights law. I read about Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and how it was an equal access law (http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/faqs.html). It was a comparison between children with...
Jun 11, 2013 | Advocacy, Disability, IEPs, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School |
Finally in the mail a response to the complaint. I had prevailed on the Least Restrictive Environment issue. (http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/iepcontents/participation) As a result my son began moving out of the self-contained classroom and back into the regular...
Jun 4, 2013 | Advocacy, Deafness, Disability, Emotion, IEPs, Inclusion, Parent Involvement, Public School |
Our continued pressure on the School Board had drawn the attention of the local media and several articles had appeared in our local newspaper. The public disclosure brought out support from our community in trying to bring our children back. There was also the...
