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Special Education Mess in Texas: Stonewalling to End Public Schools?

February 1, 2018 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Special Education Mess in Texas: Stonewalling to End Public Schools?

Texans are still understandably upset about their children losing out on special education services. Texas education officials look like they are stonewalling to keep special education services from students. Here’s the most recent information on the Texas special education boondoggle. You have to hit the links to get the real picture, and even then it […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Data Mining, special education, SPEDx, Students with Disabilities, Texas Education Agency

Special Education: Vouchers and Betsy DeVos

November 28, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 25 Comments

Special Education: Vouchers and Betsy DeVos

What will future Education Secretary Betsy DeVos do with special education? Most voucher programs currently go to students with disabilities. My guess is that there will be increased support with the new Trump administration and DeVos. The following states have voucher programs for student with disabilities: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betsy DeVos, charter schools, gifted students, religious schools, Special Education Vouchers, Students with Disabilities

Using Student Journal Writing to Fight Bad School Reform

October 10, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Using Student Journal Writing to Fight Bad School Reform

Every student should have a journal including most students with disabilities and ELL students. Journal writing is one of the best teaching techniques to show students that their voice matters and that their schools are about who they are and what they do. It also teaches students many writing skills. It is a 180 degree […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dyslexia, Journal Writing, Students with Disabilities

There are Many Roads and Destinations for Children with Disabilities

July 25, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 3 Comments

There are Many Roads and Destinations for Children with Disabilities

Every child doesn’t have to arrive at the same destination. There are many endpoints and lots of highways. So why are parents and students directed to one score and one test to say who will be successful? The Atlantic is asking whether No Child Left Behind (NCLB) should be considered an achievement when it comes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: public schools, Students with Disabilities, testing

Parents of Students with Disabilities Who Love High-Stakes Testing: How to Convince Them Otherwise

February 4, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 6 Comments

Parents of Students with Disabilities Who Love High-Stakes Testing: How to Convince Them Otherwise

Adversaries to ending high-stakes testing are not always misguided education reformers who worship big data, but other parents. Some of the loudest crusaders in favor of high-stakes testing are parents with students who have disabilities. As Congress plans to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), some parents are speaking up against changes that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ESEA, high-stakes testing, IEPs, Students with Disabilities, Test Alterations

Bill Gates’s and the Ed. Reformers’ China/Special Education Disconnect

September 30, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Bill Gates’s and the Ed. Reformers’ China/Special Education Disconnect

Bill Gates and other ed. reformers praise China, Singapore and Korea as having the highest test scores in the world, of course, better than the United States they will tell you. What they fail to say is that in America, public schools teach everyone—students with disabilities too. Students who come to school with learning disabilities […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: China, special education, Students with Disabilities

Freedom and America’s Public Schools and School Boards: They Belong to All of Us

July 3, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

Freedom and America’s Public Schools and School Boards: They Belong to All of Us

It is difficult to find a more patriotic day than the 4th of July. While many problems face the country, and there are plenty of differences, most of us look forward to celebrating the birth of our nation. While we are free to hold different beliefs, Americans enjoy waving their flags and they love their […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brown v. Board of Education, charter schools, Common Core, Communities, parents, race relations, School Boards, Students with Disabilities, teachers

So Now You Can Read the PARCC and Smarter Balanced Tests to Students with Disabilities?

May 28, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 4 Comments

So Now You Can Read the PARCC and Smarter Balanced Tests to Students with Disabilities?

Ed. Week is having a live chat this Thursday afternoon, 3 to 4 ET, to discuss PARCC and Smarter Balanced accommodations for students with disabilities. They say this assessment will “offer the promise of more inclusion and self-sufficiency for students with special needs and English-language learners.” How any assessment is going to do all that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accommodations, assessment, PARCC, Smarter-Balanced, Students with Disabilities

Why the Education Reformers Worry about Special Education

March 30, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

Why the Education Reformers Worry about Special Education

Posted on November 12, 2013 with updated changes by Nancy Bailey I heard someone, a parent or teacher, blurt out at an informal education meeting that education reformers are afraid of special education. I think that person is right. Many of those currently in charge of condemning public schools don’t understand anything about students with […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrea Rediske, Common Core, education reform, Ethan's Bill, Florida, high-stakes testing, privatization, special education, Students with Disabilities

Larger Classes Help Students with Disabilities? Who Does the Illinois Bd. of Ed. Think It’s Fooling?

January 14, 2014 By Nancy Bailey Leave a Comment

Larger Classes Help Students with Disabilities? Who Does the Illinois Bd. of Ed. Think It’s Fooling?

The Illinois Board of Education believes larger general education classes will help children with disabilities http://action.aft.org/c/468/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7727.  Restricting the size or providing self-contained classes would do them a disservice. Really? Shame on them! Who do they think they are fooling? Consider this profound statement: “The elimination of state requirements specific to class size will best ensure […]

Filed Under: Special Education Tagged With: class size, Illinois Board of Education, Individual Educational Plan (IEP), Least Restrictive Environment (LRE), Students with Disabilities

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