Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 10. May 2012 23:09
The spring 2012 issue of the Future of Children Journal, Children with Disabilities, explores the prevalence, nature, treatment, and consequences of childhood disability. The Journal, released on May 6th, consists of a series of nine articles addressing various aspects, trends, and the long-term financial impact of childhood disability. The Journal reveals that the most prevalent conditions in children with disabilities are mental health disorders, as opposed to physical conditions such as [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 27. April 2012 02:02
An April 24, 2012 Associated Press article reported that some states, spurred by education reform incentives for more effective teacher evaluation systems, are encountering challenges in establishing criteria for the evaluation of special education teachers. Some [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 27. April 2012 01:59
An April 2012 report, Review of Special Education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, revealed that low-income students are considerably more likely than other students to be determined eligible for special education. The report also revealed that low-income students with disabilities and Hispanic and African American students with disabilities are considerably less likely to be included in general education classrooms. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 10. April 2012 01:35
In an April 4, 2012 letter to the Center for Law and Education, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) withdrew its June 16, 2011 informal guidance on the maintenance of effort (MOE) requirement for local education agencies (LEA) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 5. April 2012 00:04
On March 26, 2012, a Florida U.S. District Court judge ordered the State Medicaid agency to “provide, fund, and authorize Applied Behavioral Analysis treatment … to all Medicaid-eligible persons under the age of 21 in Florida who have been diagnosed with autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder as prescribed by a physician or other licensed practitioner.” [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 15. March 2012 19:48
On March 6, 2012 the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) published, in the Federal Register, a proposal to increase the data reporting requirements that state education agencies must meet to receive funding under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 9. March 2012 00:52
On March 6, 2012 the U.S. Department of Education (ED), Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released the results of a first-of-its kind Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) that reveals serious educational inequities in the nation’s K-12 schools. In a press release, ED acknowledged that the CRDC reflects that African-American and Hispanic students, [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 17. February 2012 01:38
In a February 13, 2012 press release, the President Obama Administration outlined the $3.8 trillion 2013 Education budget proposal it sent to Congress on that date. Among other things, the Administration is requesting $69.8 billion in funding for competitive grant programs, $1.7 billion more than Congress awarded for 2012, while proposing no increase in 2012 funding levels for key formula grant programs [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 3. February 2012 01:24
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), among other things, requires federally-funded school districts to provide a free appropriate public education to each student with a disability. An appropriate education includes the provision of regular or special education and related aids and services that are designed to meet the needs [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 3. February 2012 01:10
In November 2011, eleven states applied for waivers of various provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in response to a NCLB flexibility program offered by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) in September. A January 31, 2012 article by the Associated Press reports that in December ED advised nearly all waiver applicants that their respective [More]
