Ohio Listers Please Read!!!

May 10, 2000

Dear Listers,

The Ohio Department of Special Education is making changes that will affect our

children's education. There will be a meeting sponsered by the Ohio Coalition

For The Education Of Children With Disabilities to discuss those changes and

what we as parents can do to help.

I don't have the specifics of the changes but this is what I have gathered so

far, One of the proposed changes is ASDO...basically they want to clump all

catagories of disabilities together.

They want to allow schools to exempt our kids from the proficiency exams (this

lowers the

schools overall score when our kids test low) Basically I feel that this is an

attempt to get out of being accountable for our kids educations!

They want to change the ratio of students to teachers and also want to increase

the Speech Therapy case load by allowing schools to apply for a waiver to go

over the 1-80 case load to include up to 120!!! Our school Speech therapists

are already overloaded...if this happens our kids won't get the amopunt or

Quality of Speech Therapy that we know they need.

For more information PLEASE try to attend this meeting.

Meeting info is as follows.

The Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disbilities is sponsering

a one day conference on May 18th, 2000. The focus of the conference will be:

REVIEW OF THE IDEA REGULATIONS AND OHIO'S PROPOSED RULES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION.

STAFF OF THE COALITION WILL FOCUS ON THESE PROPOSED NEW RULES FOR PRE-SCHOOL AND

SCHOOL AGE SPECIAL EDUCATION. FEDERAL REGULATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED USING THE

MATERIALS AND VISUAL AIDES PREPARED FOR PARENT CENTERS BY THE FEDERAL

PARTNERSHIP PROJECT, FAPE. DISCUSSION GROUPS WILL MATCH THE PROPOSED NEW OHIO

RULES TO THESE REGULATIONS FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

WHERE: CLARION HOTEL ON HIGH STREET, WORTHINGTON, OHIO

WHEN: MAY, 18TH, 2000 FROM 9:30 AM TO 3:00 PM

COST: $15.00 IN ADVANCE. FEE INCLUDES LUNCH.

CONTACT: ANGELA FERDINAND, OCECD 1-800-374-2806

THIS IS ALSO THE DAY OF THE MAY COFEAT MEETING AT 7:00 PM SO AS LONG AS YOU ARE

IN THE AREA STOP IN AND JOIN US!!

Donna Carver :-)

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