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Monday, March 4, 2013
Lexington parents call for investigation into 'seclusion rooms' - Lexington, MA - Lexington Minuteman
U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) - Lexington parents call for investigation into 'seclusion room'
[UPDATE - (abridged)] NOTE THAT WHILE THE INVESTIGATORS LISTED BELOW ARE LIMITED TO LOOKING AT RETALIATION IN LEXINGTON, MA, this email (below) provides a clear and simple way to notify authorities, including the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights in Washington, DC, about retaliation and harassment of parents seeking help for their children in other school districts across the country.
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Dear [Lexington] Special Education Parents Advisory Council:
The US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights is investigating claims of retaliation against parents/students in Lexington Public Schools.
The Attorney who is investigating is:
Philip Catanzano US DOE OCR
Philip.Catanzano@ed.gov Direct Dial #: 617-289-0038
The Investigator partnering with him is:
Patricia Cox US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
Patricia.Cox@ed.gov Direct Dial #: 617-289-0042
I understand that the results of the survey the SEPAC did should show me that I’m not alone in my fear of retaliation and experience of retaliation from Lexington. It would be a good thing for the Office of Civil Rights to hear parent concerns if you are willing to share.
[UPDATE - (abridged)] NOTE THAT WHILE THE INVESTIGATORS LISTED BELOW ARE LIMITED TO LOOKING AT RETALIATION IN LEXINGTON, MA, this email (below) provides a clear and simple way to notify authorities, including the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights in Washington, DC, about retaliation and harassment of parents seeking help for their children in other school districts across the country.
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Dear [Lexington] Special Education Parents Advisory Council:
The US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights is investigating claims of retaliation against parents/students in Lexington Public Schools.
The Attorney who is investigating is:
Philip Catanzano US DOE OCR
Philip.Catanzano@ed.gov Direct Dial #: 617-289-0038
The Investigator partnering with him is:
Patricia Cox US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
Patricia.Cox@ed.gov Direct Dial #: 617-289-0042
I understand that the results of the survey the SEPAC did should show me that I’m not alone in my fear of retaliation and experience of retaliation from Lexington. It would be a good thing for the Office of Civil Rights to hear parent concerns if you are willing to share.
Examples of retaliation practices (in layperson terms, to the best of my understanding) look like:
On ___DATE_______, I ___did X________, and ___Name of LPS Staff or title_________ responded by ____doing “Y” (What s/he did)___________________.
Things that might be examples of the “X” action you took could include:
Requested an IEP Team meeting
Expressed concern about an IEP not being implemented
Tried to get more opportunity for inclusion
Called the Director of Student Services
Called the Principal
Called the Superintendent
Requested more services
Requested data
Expressed concern about how someone was interacting with your child
Reported that your child is being bullied
Tried to discuss and get resolution to a problem your child is having with a teacher or staff person
Tried to get change for instruction after noticing that your child wasn’t doing well or was having problems.
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Examples of the types of things that would be an adverse response from a staff person, administrator, or other person:
Being ignored
Being ignored repeatedly
Being given a lot of hoops to jump through
Communication being restricted somehow, such as by not allowing you to talk with certain people, not allowing people to talk or share information with you, restricting your ability to communicate
Refusing to schedule meetings or attend meetings
Refusing to evaluate
Delaying meetings, evaluations, IEP reconvene meetings, especially in combination
Putting unreasonable demands on you
Belittling you
Saying you are a bad parent and expressing concern about your parenting in response to your advocacy
Reducing services
Refusing to include your parent concerns in an IEP
Sending N1 Statements attached to the IEP that have untrue information in them and/or misrepresent the facts
Putting you in a position of feeling afraid to advocate due to threats or suggestions of some kind of action that would cause you to worry about your child at school or that it will result in them taking away needed services, supports.
Saying that ‘if you don’t do X, we are/are not going to do Y’
Please feel free to email me with any questions. My best to all of you.
Barb Visovatti
On ___DATE_______, I ___did X________, and ___Name of LPS Staff or title_________ responded by ____doing “Y” (What s/he did)___________________.
Things that might be examples of the “X” action you took could include:
Requested an IEP Team meeting
Expressed concern about an IEP not being implemented
Tried to get more opportunity for inclusion
Called the Director of Student Services
Called the Principal
Called the Superintendent
Requested more services
Requested data
Expressed concern about how someone was interacting with your child
Reported that your child is being bullied
Tried to discuss and get resolution to a problem your child is having with a teacher or staff person
Tried to get change for instruction after noticing that your child wasn’t doing well or was having problems.
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Examples of the types of things that would be an adverse response from a staff person, administrator, or other person:
Being ignored
Being ignored repeatedly
Being given a lot of hoops to jump through
Communication being restricted somehow, such as by not allowing you to talk with certain people, not allowing people to talk or share information with you, restricting your ability to communicate
Refusing to schedule meetings or attend meetings
Refusing to evaluate
Delaying meetings, evaluations, IEP reconvene meetings, especially in combination
Putting unreasonable demands on you
Belittling you
Saying you are a bad parent and expressing concern about your parenting in response to your advocacy
Reducing services
Refusing to include your parent concerns in an IEP
Sending N1 Statements attached to the IEP that have untrue information in them and/or misrepresent the facts
Putting you in a position of feeling afraid to advocate due to threats or suggestions of some kind of action that would cause you to worry about your child at school or that it will result in them taking away needed services, supports.
Saying that ‘if you don’t do X, we are/are not going to do Y’
Please feel free to email me with any questions. My best to all of you.
Barb Visovatti
Read more: Lexington parents call for investigation into 'seclusion rooms' - Lexington, MA - Lexington Minuteman http://www.wickedlocal.com/lexington/news/x1107518980/Lexington-parents-call-for-investigation-into-use-of-seclusion-rooms#ixzz2McwxIyAK
Read more: Lexington parents call for investigation into 'seclusion rooms' - Lexington, MA - Lexington Minuteman http://www.wickedlocal.com/lexington/news/x1107518980/Lexington-parents-call-for-investigation-into-use-of-seclusion-rooms#ixzz2McvUiuDx
In the wake of allegations that Lexington Public Schools used seclusion rooms to discipline special-needs students, parents and concerned residents called for an independent investigation.
During public comment at a School Committee meeting Tuesday night, Sept. 11, resident Barbara Visovatti said her son had been placed in a “quiet room” on at least three occasions in 2008.
2008.
“There was one chair in it and the window was covered with paper,” she said.
The effects of this treatment, Visovatti said, became apparent in her son’s behavior, starting in May 2008.
“He started putting himself in our dark front hall closet, closing the door and staying with his knees to his chest in the fetal position,” she said.
Visovatti said she e-mailed her son’s teacher who said the quiet room would no longer be used.
Visovatti and her husband told the School Committee they kept their son home from school until they could find a different placement because they felt he was unsafe in Lexington.
Superintendent Paul Ash has stated the school district ceased the use of time-out rooms in 2007.
Jennifer Yaar, co-chairman of the Special Education Parents Advisory Council (SEPAC), said there is a need to restore confidence in the school system.
Read more: Lexington parents call for investigation into 'seclusion rooms' - Lexington, MA - Lexington Minuteman http://www.wickedlocal.com/lexington/news/x1107518980/Lexington-parents-call-for-investigation-into-use-of-seclusion-rooms#ixzz2MctrIedi
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HOW IDEA FAILS FAMILIES WITHOUT MEANS: CAUSES AND CORRECTIONS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF SPECIAL EDUCATION LAWYERING - Tags: CHILDREN with disabilities -- Education -- Law & legislation -- United States UNITED States. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
The article focuses on the U.S. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and examines how it fails low income families that have children with disabilities. Topics include low income families' access to skilled and effective advocates to represent their children and the need for Individualized Education Programs (IEP) for all qualifying children. [ABSTRACT]Hyman, Elisa; Rivkin, Dean Hill; Rosenbaum, Stephen A. [AUTHORS]
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law;2012, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p107 [SOURCE]
HOW IDEA FAILS FAMILIES WITHOUT MEANS: CAUSES AND CORRECTIONS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF SPECIAL EDUCATION LAWYERING - Tags: CHILDREN with disabilities -- Education -- Law & legislation -- United States UNITED States. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Sequestration & Special Education
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What is Sequestration?
Sequestration. Originally a legal term referring generally to the act of valuable property being taken into custody by an agent of the court and locked away for safekeeping, usually to prevent the property from being disposed of or abused before a dispute over its ownership can be resolved. But the term has been adapted by Congress in more recent years to describe a new fiscal policy procedure originally provided for in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act of 1985 -- an effort to reform Congressional voting procedures so as to make the size of the Federal government's budget deficit a matter of conscious choice rather than simply the arithmetical outcome of a decentralized appropriations process in which no one ever looked at the cumulative results until it was too late to change them. If the dozen or so appropriation bills passed separately by Congress provide for total government spending in excess of the limits Congress earlier laid down for itself in the annual Budget Resolution, and if Congress cannot agree on ways to cut back the total (or does not pass a new, higher Budget Resolution), then an "automatic" form of spending cutback takes place. This automatic spending cut is what is called "sequestration."
What is Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act of 1985?
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Aug 5, 2009 – Deficit Reduction Act of 2009 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to ...
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"The sequestration will put at risk all that we have accomplished in education.I don't think we have a lot of flexibility here," Duncan said of potential cuts. "Regardless of impact,...it's a horrendous way to think of budget choices." U.S.Education Secretary Arnie Duncan U.S.Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related Services. [Sequestration & Special Education - enjoyhi5autism.bl...
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*"*Sequestration sends a signal that the United States is backtracking on its commitment to reform and its long-standing promise to promote equity through Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA." *Fiscal year 2013 is a little more than two months away and sequestration kicks in three months after that on January 2nd -- so it's critically important that we – and the American people – fully understand the consequences of sequestration and take steps to avoid it now.* *The sequestration will put at risk all that we've accomplished in education and weaken ... more »
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The Senate committee responsible for writing
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Budget Process in the U.S. Department of Education
In purely financial terms, the Federal budget that comes out each year includes ... Preparation of the budget begins in the Department of Education during May, when the ...
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Sequestration Needed for Federal Education Programs. by Neal McCluskey Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies - Author: Neal McCluskey, Published: 2012-07-25, Type: Congressional Testimony - This testimony was delivered on July 25, 2012.
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... programs such as defense, education, national ... recent memorandum, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that a sequestration ... appropriations bills for the fiscal year ...
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What is Sequestration?
Sequestration: A Glossary of Political Economy ... - Auburn University
Sequestration: What it Means and How Government Contractors ...
The Budget Control Act of 2011 establishes a process, known
as sequestration, whereby automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are
scheduled to occur in January 2013. These cuts are currently slated to affect both mandatory and discretionary spending and are predicted to produce roughly $108 billion in annual spending reductions through 2021, split evenly between defense and non-defense accounts. This 90-minute webinar will provide a background of the sequestration process and an overview of the Budget Control Act of 2011 to help you understand the legal environment surrounding the Act. In tandem, it will address particular types of contract vehicles and contract actions that likely will or will not be affected by these cuts.
What is Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act of 1985?
Gramm–Rudman–Hollings Balanced Budget Act - Wikipedia, the ...
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (99th Congress, S.1702, Pub.L. 99-177, title II, December 12, 1985, ...
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In law, sequestration may refer to: Sequestration (law), the
seizure of property Jury sequestration, the isolation of a jury in order to
ensure they are not ...
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The Senate then works with the House to pass all
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U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Appropriations
The Senate then works with the House to pass all
appropriations bills by October 1, the beginning of ... The
Appropriations Committee was created in 1867. Learn the history
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Idea Rebounds: Automatic Cuts to Curb Deficits - The New York Times
May 15, 2011 – The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings act of 1985, for all its flaws, created a fiscal ... that eventually made deficit reduction possible, or so it seems now.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Free Technology for Teachers
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