Out of my desire to help my child, I did a lot of research on the web and joined many . In August 2009, i read some posts about a parent access bill to children's special education classrooms that was passed just a few months ago in Ill. I understood this to be the secon state to have such a bill. I researched for the bill and after I found it, I thought to myself "Why not here?" I emailed my friend Donna Obermeyer and sent it to her and asked her about it. Well, she was enthused about it and with her help and experience, I was able to get the paper work together about the Ill. bill and PA. bill and contacted Representative Kathy Haigh. We met with her and she graciously said she would support a bill of this sort If you would like to support this bill, please send an email to Donna at : [email protected] or Sarah at [email protected] .
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The following is some of the proposed language of the bill and NOT set in stone as of yet. I will use this page to keep you up-dated about it.
. To insure that parents of children with disabilities can participate fully and effectively with school personnel in the consideration and development of appropriate educational programs for their child. It shall provide that, upon request by a parent, parents and parent-designated independent evaluators and educational consultants shall be afforded timely access for observations of a child's current program and of any program proposed for the child, including both academic and non-academic components of any such program. Parents and their designees shall be afforded access of sufficient duration and extent to enable them to evaluate a child's performance in a current program and the
ability of a proposed program to enable such child to make effective progress. No conditions or restrictions may be imposed on such observations except those necessary to ensure the safety of children in a program, the integrity of a program while under observation, or the safeguarding of personally identifiable information consistent with the requirements of the federal family educational rights privacy act and applicable state laws.
Please feel free to leave a comment. Click on 'comment' .
The following is some of the proposed language of the bill and NOT set in stone as of yet. I will use this page to keep you up-dated about it.
. To insure that parents of children with disabilities can participate fully and effectively with school personnel in the consideration and development of appropriate educational programs for their child. It shall provide that, upon request by a parent, parents and parent-designated independent evaluators and educational consultants shall be afforded timely access for observations of a child's current program and of any program proposed for the child, including both academic and non-academic components of any such program. Parents and their designees shall be afforded access of sufficient duration and extent to enable them to evaluate a child's performance in a current program and the
ability of a proposed program to enable such child to make effective progress. No conditions or restrictions may be imposed on such observations except those necessary to ensure the safety of children in a program, the integrity of a program while under observation, or the safeguarding of personally identifiable information consistent with the requirements of the federal family educational rights privacy act and applicable state laws.
