Fwd: The end of the IEP!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest guest]

FYI

Mike Savory

Courtsey: Bev s

An amendment will be offered to the Senate IDEA bill

on "paperwork reduction". It is expected to be similar

to the "paperwork reduction" provision that is already

part of the House IDEA bill.

The House bill allows 10 States to ask the U.S.

Department of Education to set up Statewide programs

to completely waive current paperwork requirements.

House Democrats in the Committee report on

H.R. 1350 say the bill "has absolutely no restrictions

on what paperwork could be waived....A STATE COULD

PROPOSE TO WAIVE IEPS or due process notices...."

What do the House Republicans say? The program

allow States "to reduce the IEP paperwork burden".

The IEP is the only paperwork specifically mentioned.

There is no question that the intent of Congress is IEP

"paperwork reduction". This is totally separate from

the new requirements for Standardized IEP forms for

all States, and from the new requirement that "the bill

makes clear that NOTHING beyond what is clearly

laid out in statute [the final bill signed by the President]

is required to be in an IEP", and from the new ability

to do a 3-year IEP.

If a State proposes to waive the IEP (since we will have

once-a-year tests in reading and math under No Child

Left Behind which is the new "accountability" to replace

IEP accountability), and the Secretary of Education

approves it, NO appeal of that decision is possible

because IDEA 2004 specifically allows it all in the name

of "paperwork reduction".

If people really want to "align" IDEA with No Child Left

Behind, they need to realize just what that will mean

for many students with disabilities and their parents.

IDEA and the IEP have required individualization. No

Child Left Behind requires once-a-year standardized

tests in reading and math.

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Mike Savory

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