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Back to School 2020
August 3, 2020 Advocacy stacey

Typically, at this time of the year (August), we’re getting ready to send our kids back into a classroom, but we know that we are quickly approaching an unprecedented back-to-school situation. While there are some kids across the nation who will go back into classrooms, hundreds of thousands (and maybe millions) will continue to do

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TAKE CONTROL IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
July 21, 2020 Advocacy stacey

So, it appears that many schools across the nation will not be going back in August or September. Some of the largest school systems in the nation will have yet another semester, or more, of their students homebound. Some kids will be working with their parents, some won’t because parents simply don’t have the capacity

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ONLINE IEP MEETINGS – ARE THEY HERE TO STAY??
July 9, 2020 Advocacy stacey

Beginning with the closings of school buildings, parents and teachers had to adjust to online IEP, behavior plan and evaluation/re-evaluation plan meetings. It was certainly a challenge at first. Different school systems chose different platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Team, Cisco Webex, etc). Given that it doesn’t look like we’ll be past Covid in the near future,

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Covid – Back to School Options (Do You Have Any?)
July 8, 2020 Advocacy stacey

As parents are being asked for feedback and input into the plans to return to school, I encourage you to understand your rights and know that there are options. From all the families that I have heard from, I can sadly count on one hand the number of students whose parents report that their child’s

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