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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 59060" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How many times have you asked to see your child's teacher's college diploma or even asked what their major was in college? </div></div></p><p></p><p>I did. You'd have thought I was asking for something that required the highest national security clearance. I asked Administration for a teacher's qualifications when difficult child was in elementary. I didn't get them. I also asked for qualifications of the sd's Special Education evaluators who performed difficult child's 1st evaluation. I never got their credentials either.</p><p></p><p>I can't recall who it was, but someone posted about a Charter School not accepting Special Education students in the not to distant past, so I wanted to post the following quote so that we can find the info in the future. From US Dept of Education: <a href="http://www.ed.gov/pubs/chartlegis/part1.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100218204407/http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/chartlegis/part1.html</a></p><p></p><p>Every charter school is part of its state's educational system and all states participate in IDEA, so all charter schools have obligations under IDEA. Most of the state charter school statutes reviewed for this report were passed before the 1997 amendments to IDEA. The IDEA amendments clarify obligations of charter schools to students with disabilities and ways in which charter schools may access federal special education funds and services, whether through a district or directly from the state. If a charter school is considered a freestanding LEA (that is, a local education agency or district), it must be treated by the state the same as other freestanding LEAs in regard to applying for federal funds. For charter schools that are part of an LEA, the LEA must serve children with disabilities attending those schools in the same manner as it serves children with disabilities in other schools. The LEA must provide IDEA funds to those schools in the same manner as it provides those funds to its other schools.4</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 59060, member: 23"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How many times have you asked to see your child's teacher's college diploma or even asked what their major was in college? </div></div> I did. You'd have thought I was asking for something that required the highest national security clearance. I asked Administration for a teacher's qualifications when difficult child was in elementary. I didn't get them. I also asked for qualifications of the sd's Special Education evaluators who performed difficult child's 1st evaluation. I never got their credentials either. I can't recall who it was, but someone posted about a Charter School not accepting Special Education students in the not to distant past, so I wanted to post the following quote so that we can find the info in the future. From US Dept of Education: [URL='http://www.ed.gov/pubs/chartlegis/part1.html']https://web.archive.org/web/20100218204407/http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/chartlegis/part1.html[/URL] Every charter school is part of its state's educational system and all states participate in IDEA, so all charter schools have obligations under IDEA. Most of the state charter school statutes reviewed for this report were passed before the 1997 amendments to IDEA. The IDEA amendments clarify obligations of charter schools to students with disabilities and ways in which charter schools may access federal special education funds and services, whether through a district or directly from the state. If a charter school is considered a freestanding LEA (that is, a local education agency or district), it must be treated by the state the same as other freestanding LEAs in regard to applying for federal funds. For charter schools that are part of an LEA, the LEA must serve children with disabilities attending those schools in the same manner as it serves children with disabilities in other schools. The LEA must provide IDEA funds to those schools in the same manner as it provides those funds to its other schools.4 [/QUOTE]
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