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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...