Children are our priority. Ensuring their needs are met is our goal.
An education record simply isn’t a file consisting of report cards and progress reports. It includes such records as emails and legal invoices, too.
“No,” is the answer from Rory Duffield and Lourrie Duddridge, two senior specialists with Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), one of the largest school districts in the United States.
This article focuses on IEP Implementation-related regulation and case law that school divisions, school division lawyers, hearing officers, and state education agencies use in documents they issue.
FAPE is an acronym for Free Appropriate Public Education.
Free Appropriate Public Education is not the definition of FAPE.
If you don’t know it already, it is time to learn the definition of FAPE.
In order to know if the school division and its teachers are providing FAPE, you need to know what it is.
One goal of this series is to identify usage trends. Each article will be dedicated to one regulation. The articles will be routinely updated to include when, where, how, and who most recently cited the regulations.
There’s a lot to get fired up about when it comes to special education, but mediations get me hotter than a tin roof during a heat wave.
Why?
Lot’s of places to get snagged if you aren’t careful and/or don’t even know these briar patches exist.