41. USCS: Charter Schools And Special Education aids and services—with nondisabled students, to For example, delaware providesa charter school guidebook that of residence for all special education costs http://www.uscharterschools.org/lpt/uscs_docs/4

Print Version Print This Page Return to Web Version Charter Schools and Special Education: A Report on State Policies by: Eileen M. Ahearn, Ph.D. Prepared by: Project FORUM National Association of State Directors of Special Education 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 320 Alexandria, VA 22314 Prepared for: Office of Special Education Programs U.S. Department of Education> Final Report Deliverable #1-3.2 Under Cooperative Agreement No. H159K70002 March, 1999 Project FORUM at National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE) is a cooperative agreement funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U. S. Department of Education. The project carries out a variety of activities that provide information needed for program improvement, and promote the utilization of research data and other information for improving outcomes for students with disabilities. The project also provides technical assistance and information on emerging issues, and convenes small work groups to gather expert input, obtain feedback, and develop conceptual frameworks related to critical topics in special education. This report was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Department of Education (Contract No. HS92015001). However, the opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and no official endorsement by the Department should be inferred.

42. Post-Crescent - Learning’s Costly Curve Part of the solution may be labeling fewer students as disabled. delaware. specialeducationresearch is not rigorous or coordinated enough to support needs http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_4981028.shtml

var prop1 = "Appleton" var prop6 = "news" Appleton Weather Temp: Hi: Lo: Main Page News Sports Packers ... Pit Stop Picks Posted Aug. 04, 2002 Schools cope amid growing disabled-student population, special-education expenses By Kathy Walsh Nufer Post-Crescent staff writer Freedom made the commitment to ensure all children equal access to a public education well before state and federal governments made it law in the early 1970s, he said. Yet, in times of tight budgets there is no denying the mounting cost of educating everyone from the blind, deaf and medically fragile to children with cognitive and emotional disabilities and speech delays. While Congress considers reauthorizing the 28-year-old law now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), area school systems are picking up the bulk of the bill for an ever-growing number of special-education children. Two dozen Fox Valley school districts spent more than $62 million in district, state and federal dollars in the 2000-01 school year to educate 7,597 students with disabilities, according to the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. In the coming school year, Freedom, with a total enrollment of 1,590, will spend $1.9 million of its $12.2 million operational budget educating 215 children with disabilities.

43. Health And Health Care In Schools - April 2001 Plan on Children with special Health needs and assistive technologies for disabledor developmentally Eleven other statesArkansas, delaware, Illinois, Iowa http://www.healthinschools.org/ejournal/april_print.htm

Health and Health Care in Schools Vol 2, No 2 - April 2001 Link Between MMR Shots and Autism Disputed A theory that children develop autism as a result of having had measles-mumps-rubella vaccination is generating concern in both lay and medical communities, according to researchers who set out to determine to determine if there is any connection. First floated in Great Britain in the late 1990s by a medical investigative group, the theory holds that the combined vaccine given in early infancy may cause the developmental condition known as autism, which normally surfaces when children are 18 to 19 months of age, shortly after they have completed their vaccinations. Because autism is so difficult a condition for parents to accept, and because it is incompletely understood by medical practitioners, theories about its cause have been wide-ranging, from coldness in mothers to failure of parts of the brain to develop during pregnancy. In light of the serious implications for vaccine practice of the latest theory, a group of researchers in the California Department of Health reviewed the immunization coverage rates of children born between 1980 and 1994 who were enrolled in California kindergartens, to determine the age at which they first received MMR vaccinations. Those data were then compared with autism caseloads of children born in the same years who were enrolled in the California Department of Developmental Services regional service center system. They found that although there were only modest increases in the rates of immunization during those years, the numbers of autism cases increased markedly. This led the researchers to conclude that the difference is so wide that it's hard to see any connection.

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FRSD News Releases, 2002-2003 January 7, 2003 Lynn Beattie, Director of Special Services, retires Lynn M. Beattie, Director of Special Services for the Flemington Raritan Regional School District, is retiring from the field of education after 29 years of service. Her last day of school is January 31, 2003. Beattie began her career as a teacher of the handicapped in 1970 and taught in the Flemington-Raritan School District from 1979-1980. She returned to the district six years later to teach emotionally disturbed students and multiply disabled classes at Robert Hunter Elementary School in Raritan Township. “I remember when all district staff members could meet in the library of one of the elementary schools,” said Beattie. “Since then, the district and the special services department have grown significantly, along with the responsibility of providing quality services to a rising number of children with special needs.” In 1989, Beattie was appointed the district’s Supervisor of Special Services and has served as the director of the department for nearly 10 years. “I take great pride in the special education programs I have helped develop over the years,” said Beattie. “There is no greater compliment than to have families move to the district, or move back to the district, because of the department’s excellent staff, programs and services.”

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50. Stateline.org: Lobbying Season Opens For Special Education full cost of educating learning disabled children even of state legislators in Washington,delaware's US Representative change the cost of special education. http://www.stateline.org/story.do?storyId=225070

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Our broadcast partner WMAQ TV Chicago Our sister publications Latest issue: Teachers Rate Progress Latest issue: Under Suspicion Our publisher December 2002 Special education Cover story: Special ed enrollment grows more lopsided The haves and the have nots Austin High School and Northside College Preparatory High School are polar opposites in many ways, and special education is no exception. Austin enrolls a higher percentage of special education students than any other high school in the district; Northside has the fewest. CATALYST Senior Editor Elizabeth Duffrin researched both to find out how the lopsided distribution affected each school. Schools struggle with federal law Model inclusion at Mather High Who is Corey H.? Ten years ago, a school reform group teamed up with a university legal clinic to sue Chicago Public Schools and the state for illegally segregating special education students. In 1998, CPS settled the lawsuit before going to trial, agreeing to send more special needs children back to neighborhood schools and into general education classrooms. Here is a primer on that settlement. High schools bear the brunt of teacher shortage Briefing page A summary of key points.

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55. The Review News Students Start Chapter Of National time she will be involved with special needs children. an interest in working withdisabled children, Allison's of the Epilepsy Foundation of delaware, said he http://www.review.udel.edu/archive/2002_Issues/03.15.02/index.php3?section=1&art

56. March 2002 Autism News,disability News,special Education News Life of the developmentally disabled Agencies assist adults Legal rights for specialneeds students. Upcoming ball to benefit Lower delaware Autism Foundation. http://trainland.tripod.com/march2002.htm

Posted 3/29/02 AUTISM 2002 The Angel Of Autism Conference The Second PennABA Conference is Friday, April 5 in State College, PA. Top Experts to Speak on Mental Health Policy Muscatatuck veto spurs criticism ... Program intervenes when babies need special assistance Posted 3/28/02 Backpack PC helps disabled children Court antics net 1-day sentence Don't Point, Just Think: The Brain Wave as Joystick PBS Overlooks Dramatic Effect of Vision on Children's Ability to Learn ... Mother's cookbook finds autistic children's strength (This is pretty cool!!) Missing Boy Found Safe in Trunk This year, coordinators making special education program work Important Autism Research/PLEASE HELP!!!! Posted 3/27/02 $6M Awarded to Pursue Autism Genes Direct Link Between Computer Use and Vision Problems in Children The annual Easter egg hunt raises a difficult problem - how do I explain to my sons the meaning of death? Different parts of the brain handle fantasy and reality ... Developmentally disabled get job help from Northwest Center Posted 3/26/02 Funding freeze threatens special ed Gov. Schweiker's budget has no increase next year for the costly schools. Some say a crisis looms for the disabled.

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Posted 1/30/03 UT - Conference Will Discuss Developments in Autism IA - Enzymes offer relief from autism for family NM - He battled terrors, but his family had faith and a doc Psychiatric Genomics Selects Evotec OAI as Their Strategic Chemistry Partner For Drug Discovery and Development PA - Behavioral and medical aid for kids MA - Council supports special ed parents: Organizer: Stigma works against those who need help most FL - Elementary students experience challenges of deaf and blind UK - GP leader calls for end to MMR bonus NJ - Lobbyists target Burton UK - Mental health group launched AZ - Parents say teacher harmed autistic kids Terror suspect faces 9/11 families Posted 1/28/03 Educators Intent on Transforming Egypt (NY Times, registration required) Positive Response to Epilepsy Medication Does Not Ensure Good Prognosis Oxygen deprivation at or immediately after birth may place premature babies at risk for problems Ideas for Reducing Restraint/Seclusion in Behavioral Health UK - Ahern faces disability funding protest CA - Autism speakers to focus on play WI - UK - Fears for closure of centre for disabled CT - Opening the lines of communication MA - Hudson schools want 5 percent more next year NJ - Mom's goal: Hockey team for special kids MN - Legislators hear debate over childhood vaccinations A three-minute love affair Nick Hornby says there's still great pop out there - we just need to listen harder Austrailia -

58. Philadelphia Police Department ::: 8th District Profile bounded on the east by the delaware River, on and Armory, Woodhaven Center for disabledpersons, the one (1) Private school (Delta School for special needs). http://www.ppdonline.org/ppd2_ds08.htm

Home Operations Reports Prevention Career Wanted ... Operations 8th Police District Search Site: Find: Advanced Search Featured Here Organization Phone Directory Special Unit Phone Directory District Locator ... Success Stories Learn More About Who to Call For Help How 9-1-1 Works Hotline Directory Information Privacy Statement Utility Contact Webmaster Monitor Page Download Adobe Acrobat Reader Philadelphia Police Department 8th Police District The Eighth District was formed from the Seventh District in May of 1980 and is bounded on the east by the Delaware River, on the south by Rhawn Street; on the west by Roosevelt Boulevard; and on the north by Poquessing Creek. The property upon which the Eighth District is located is leased from the Northeast Airport. The District is 14.54 square miles in area which represents 10.5 % of the total land area of the city. This area contains all of the postal zones of 19154 and 19114 as well as parts of postal zones 19136 and 19153.

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QUICK CLICKS Table of Contents Archives Submit a Letter to the Editor Share a Story Idea ... NEA Home Page Debate Should Special Needs Students Be Exempt From Graduation Tests? YES Timothy Bush teaches special education at Seaford Senior High School in Delaware. Currently a member of the Delaware State Education Association executive board, he's also a lead teacher for his district's New Teacher Mentoring Program. S pecial educators are trained to look at the whole child and make decisions based on individual needs. I feel that I must qualify my "yes" answer by rephrasing the question to read, "Should many special need students be exempt from taking graduation tests?" I don't believe students should be routinely exempted, but I do believe that only the experts who participate on a student's Child Study Team should make that decision. As long as bureaucrats and politicians can mandate that all students take a single test to graduate, a team's ability to exempt a student from such testing is compromised. If special needs students are lumped together with non-disabled peers and required to take high-stakes tests without procedural safeguards, I have grave concerns about fairness. These concerns center around how special needs students are identified and tracked, what accommodations for them are made, and whether a single indicator is relied on for an assessment.

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NEWS FROM WASHINGTON - GENERAL June 6, 2001 AGENCY APPOINTMENTS RETHINKING SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR A NEW CENTURY COURT DECISIONS APPOINTMENTS TO FEDERAL AGENCIES Cabinet members for agencies of interest to persons with learning disabilities have been named: Education, Dr. Rod Paige; Labor, Elaine Chao; Attorney General, John Ashcroft Nominees for the Department of Education include Bill Hansen and Eugene Hickok for the positions of deputy and under secretary of education respectively; Susan Sclafani for counselor to the secretary, Beth Ann Bryan for senior advisor to the secretary, Susan B. Neuman for Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, and Dr. Russ Whitehurst, for Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. All of these individuals have backgrounds in teaching reading. Nominees for the positions of Assistant Secretary for OSERS and OSEP Director, and for the new Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Policy have not been named. RETHINKING SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR A NEW CENTURY In his opening statement, Chester Finn, president of the Fordham Foundation pointed out seven key policy failures:

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