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Disregarding the Needs of the LAUSD’s Most Vulnerable Students

February 1, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

First and foremost, our students with disabilities are general ed students…All of them.” – Anthony Aguilar, LAUSD Chief of Special Education The end of 2019 brought a conclusion to the Chanda Smith consent decree and its modification. For the first time in over a generation, the delivery of special education services within the LAUSD is […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed Tagged With: Anthony Aguilar, Chanda Smith, CTC, Dr. Silke Bradford, Elizabeth Badger, FAPE, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, LRE, Marco Tolj, Moderate to Severe, Patricia Castellanos, Scott Schmerelson, Special Education, Special Education Centers, Tanya Ortiz Franklin

LAUSD Candidate Profile: Elizabeth Badger

January 26, 2020 by Carl J. Petersen

This is the last of two articles profiling the candidates running to represent the residents of LAUSD’s Board District 3.

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: Elizabeth Badger, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Scott Schmerelson, Speak Up, Special Education, Special Education Centers, UTLA

Using Students with Severe Special Education Needs As Lab Rats In An Education “Reform” Experiment

December 27, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

Was LAUSD’s plan to limit accessibility to Special Education Centers in the best interests of the students who needed those services?

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed Tagged With: Chanda Smith, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Modified Consent Decree, Nick Melvoin, Special Education, Special Education Centers

The Hijacking of Special Education

September 29, 2019 by Carl J. Petersen

The Chanda Smith consent decree should have helped every LAUSD student with special education needs. Instead, it harmed the most vulnerable.

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Special ed Tagged With: Chanda Smith, Division of Special Education, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Unified School District, Special Education, Special Education Centers

School’s (Not) Out for Summer

December 19, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Thanks to all the effective voices that made this possible for our youth!” – Mónica García, 12/14/16 During last week’s LAUSD meeting, the Board suddenly reversed course and abandoned a carefully compromised plan that would have slowly returned the beginning of the school year closer to its traditional Labor Day start. Without a warning to […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: iPad, John Deasy, LAUSD, Mónica García, Special Education Centers

Monica Garcia Votes to Continue Court Fight with Parents of Children with Special Needs

June 16, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

Last month, the 9th Circuit overruled a lower court and stated that parents did have the right to intervene on behalf of their children as they fight to keep special education centers as a choice available to them during the IEP process. While the LAUSD’s lawyers had reportedly already filed the paperwork, the Governing Board […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Chanda Smith, Mónica García, parent engagement, Special Education, Special Education Centers

The LAUSD Empire Strikes Back

June 13, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

“The district court further erred when it found intervention unnecessary to protect appellant’s’ interest in ensuring the receipt of public education consistent with their disabilities and federal law.” – Judge Carlos T. Bea The LAUSD claims that “special education centers are unnecessary because the District can ‘provide all supports and services…at a general education site”, […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents Tagged With: Chanda Smith, Littler Mendelson PC, parent engagement, Special Education, Special Education Centers

Monica Garcia’s Attack on Special Education

March 10, 2016 by Carl J. Petersen

When we say $1.4 billion for special ed and we only have $700 million from the federal government and the other $700 million are coming from every child in this district, I’m not about defunding special ed. I just know that we have a serious issue to how can we serve our own kids?” -Monica […]

Filed Under: LAUSD, Los Angeles Tagged With: Inclusion, LAUSD, LCAP, Mainstreaming, Mónica García, Special Education, Special Education Centers

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

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The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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