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Caught in the Middle: Whatever Happened to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act?

September 18, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

By Aaron Wright No child wants to feel like a failure. No educator wants to feel like they have failed a child. Most children in special education are identified as having a specific learning disability or language impairment. Yet nationally only 67% of children with disabilities will graduate from high school and almost one and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism, Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), Individual Educational Plan (IEP), Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), public schools, Special Education and FAPE, Students with Disabilities

Betsy DeVos’s Education Freedom: It’s Anything But

September 15, 2019 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Betsy DeVos rarely makes a statement without referring to her idea of Education Freedom. She is, of course, referring to school vouchers. But as education secretary she has been more about denying students true education freedom. DeVos stands for the opposite of educational freedom! As she travels around the country promoting her agenda, here’s a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children at the border, children with disabilities, class size, College and Career, Education Freedom, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Public Schools on Military Bases, Special Education and FAPE, Student Debt, the Military

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pastors4txkids Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids ·
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Always comical for @BetsyDeVos trolls whining that teachers contribute to us.

Aren’t privatizer billions enough for them?

We will block vouchers again with the powerful teacher/preacher dynamic duo!

Thank you @TexasAFT @OfficialATPE @UEATexas @txstateteachers @texascta! #txed

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roblevine82 Rob Levine @roblevine82 ·
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As MN seems about to adopt a drill and kill phonics fundamentalist literacy curriculum it's worth examining that now “There’s a whole generation of kids who associate reading with assessment" and have come to hate it https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/03/children-reading-books-english-middle-grade/673457/

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joshcowenmsu Josh Cowen @joshcowenmsu ·
7h

The privatize-schools crowd talks about #parents rights while pushing 3rd grade retention laws taking that decision away from parents and #teachers.

Don’t ever mistake attacks on #publiceducation for #parents rights.

I’m glad our #migov #mileg know the difference. https://twitter.com/SenPolehanki/status/1639328314966802447

Senator Dayna Polehanki @SenPolehanki

“I want to thank Gov. Whitmer for signing this important legislation. Parents and schools should be trusted to make decisions about grade retention—the state shouldn’t mass-flunk 3rd graders without parent input based on one test,” said State Senator Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia).”

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senlouiselucas L. Louise Lucas @senlouiselucas ·
23 Mar

Congratulations on your decision to run for public office. We need more women- especially in the Senate of Virginia! https://twitter.com/lvstodance/status/1638883713684520964

Kathy Beery, M.Ed. @lvstodance

@SenLouiseLucas @vademocrats I have filed to run against Senator Obenshain. Long odds, but folks should have a choice. He shouldn't run unopposed.

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drmaryhoward Dr. Mary Howard @drmaryhoward ·
24 Mar

Testing &the Love of Reading

“Skills" divorced from content gets us reading comp equivalent of DIBELS, the crazy pants "reading" assessmt that tries to "test" the skill of decoding by having Stds decode words that aren't words--rdg w/o actually reading.”

https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2023/03/testing-and-love-of-reading.html

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