Special-education students are slipping through the ... just place them in special ed,” Wernikoff said. A new referral form requiring detailed explanations of attempts to help a child was ...

“A negative, stressful, relational experience in the classroom seems to matter more for later special education referral than other classroom-level measures of the preschool-classroom experience ...

The goal is to understand how different students’ cases progress from referral to placement, or not being placed, in special education. Results are expected in late 2013. Since the ...

While the rest of Avon Elementary was quiet, a group of devoted district educators and researchers gathered this past summer to diligently review two new tools that aim to improve the special ...

The goal is to prevent the gap from occurring by providing intense scientifically research based interventions prior to referring a child for a special-education referral. This has resulted in ...

The report cites “few standards or procedures” to guide special education referral, evaluation and eligibility decisions, and concludes that the central office has insufficient resources to ...

For the first time, Atlanta Public Schools is offering a referral incentive to attract special education teachers. The district will pay APS employees $500 if they refer a special education ...

Typically when a student is referred for special education in Dallas ISD ... everyone in that child’s life is aware that a referral is being made, and 2) we reduce our number of disqualified ...

Although special education has made many strides as a discipline, disproportionality and issues with the referral process are not a new phenomenon — especially here in California. For example ...