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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...