To clarify the simplistic comprehension of Newsday regarding the new teacher evaluation system ["New ... it's indeed easy to "fail" this system. Special education, remedial math and reading ...

Eli Clark, left, has been waiting nearly a year for an evaluation ... rules governing special education: In most cases, students must be evaluated for IEPs upon a parent’s request, and typically ...

The letter, issued Wednesday and ... In public schools, parents who think their child needs special education services must submit a request for an evaluation, through which district officials ...

The letter, which asks the Education Department for the exact statutory language that allows it to make changes to the special education evaluation process, was written a week after House ...

I would say, “As you start a special education evaluation, make sure you are evaluating all areas of suspected disability.” After all, it is hard to convince someone that you have all the ...

In a letter ... special education policies Wednesday. The agency said it believes that the state's special education enrollment has dropped due to federal laws that it said had tightened the ...

This isn’t the first time that concerns have been raised about using NAEP scores as part of the evaluation system. The National Association of State Directors of Special Education, based in ...

A family member who thinks a child might be eligible for special education services can request an initial evaluation, and a reevaluation is a regular checkup for a student who is already getting ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin ISD is on target to meet its promised deadline of July 1 to clear the district’s backlog of special education evaluations. In March, a disability rights group sued the ...

Austin’s public school system has cleared a major hurdle in its goal to keep control of its special education services ... in evaluations for students requesting the services, the problem ...