The department is continuing its media rollout of a revised evaluation process ... want students winding up in special education just because we did not do a good job in teaching them in their ...

The Austin district is under a watch, called a monitor, by the Texas Education Agency over its chronic student evaluation backlog for special education services. Once a child’s parent requests ...

The Austin district doesn’t have the personnel needed to address increasing demands for special education evaluation requests, so it still uses contracted services, according to the district.

The following children are entitled to evaluation to determine if they meet requirements for special education and related services provided through the Individuals with Disabilities Education ...

or The parent requested a special education evaluation; or The student’s teacher or another staff member expressed specific concerns about a pattern of behavior to the director of special ...