I support IEPs for everyone. An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a written statement for a student that is developed, reviewed, and revised in accordance with state and federal laws.
A kid should have a customized plan...lots of evidence that if a kid has full attention of the teachers, they do better.
I support IEPs for everyone. An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a written statement for a student that is developed, reviewed, and revised in accordance with state and federal laws.
A kid should have a customized plan...lots of evidence that if a kid has full attention of the teachers, they do better.
I survived the education wars of the late '60's and 70's when the Nixon administration used hatred of professional education as a wedge to implement the southern strategy. We were called Commuinsts for taking "religion" out of the public schools. They objected to the Education Act, especially Title I (a/k/a Chapter 1) that provided federal funding for disdvantaged kids. They hated the 1973 legislation that evolved into IDEA, which forced districts to accommodate diabled kids. Hated programs like "Head Start" and free breakfast and lunch programs.
We had a "desegregation" order initiated by a Republican controlled HumanRelations Commission in a district where we had few minorities, but had Black administratiors and Black scoool board members who were targeted because they were Democrats. We also represented a township where we had to sell part of our schools to Amish, that used unacredited teachers and had substandard facilities. We had to acquiesce to religious groups under the SCOTUS case Lemon v. Kurtzman. We had the first teacher strike in Pa -- at a time when public employees did not have the right to strike. My brother and I represented virtually all of the districts state wide.
Later we represented the same union, the American Federation of Teachers, that Randi Weingarten represents.
My brother practiced school law until he retired in 2018.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, we have the government of the former Soviet Union. Books are banned, speech is limited, lesson plans are political, history is rewrtitten, etc. JEB Bush tried to privatize and undermine funding for public education, and DeSantis is at the verge of making all of it private, a/k/a "charter."
Reagan tried to kill the Department of Education but failed. He did his best to denigrate it...failed to fund it.
I support IEPs for everyone. An Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a written statement for a student that is developed, reviewed, and revised in accordance with state and federal laws.
A kid should have a customized plan...lots of evidence that if a kid has full attention of the teachers, they do better.
I survived the education wars of the late '60's and 70's when the Nixon administration used hatred of professional education as a wedge to implement the southern strategy. We were called Commuinsts for taking "religion" out of the public schools. They objected to the Education Act, especially Title I (a/k/a Chapter 1) that provided federal funding for disdvantaged kids. They hated the 1973 legislation that evolved into IDEA, which forced districts to accommodate diabled kids. Hated programs like "Head Start" and free breakfast and lunch programs.
We had a "desegregation" order initiated by a Republican controlled HumanRelations Commission in a district where we had few minorities, but had Black administratiors and Black scoool board members who were targeted because they were Democrats. We also represented a township where we had to sell part of our schools to Amish, that used unacredited teachers and had substandard facilities. We had to acquiesce to religious groups under the SCOTUS case Lemon v. Kurtzman. We had the first teacher strike in Pa -- at a time when public employees did not have the right to strike. My brother and I represented virtually all of the districts state wide.
Later we represented the same union, the American Federation of Teachers, that Randi Weingarten represents.
My brother practiced school law until he retired in 2018.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, we have the government of the former Soviet Union. Books are banned, speech is limited, lesson plans are political, history is rewrtitten, etc. JEB Bush tried to privatize and undermine funding for public education, and DeSantis is at the verge of making all of it private, a/k/a "charter."
Reagan tried to kill the Department of Education but failed. He did his best to denigrate it...failed to fund it.
So you are in Florida! Somehow until this entry today I thought you were in Baja California. Why Baghdad by the Sea? Is that an actual township?
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