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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 84195" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Oregon is beautiful. You would get a beautiful home in Yamhill or Marion County. You should be aware that we are in the midsts of a land use battle and you could not at this time guarantee that your neighboring landowners wouldn't put four hundred homes or a methane farm on the 40 acre lot next to you. This will probably change after our November elections, as there is a measure (49) that will rectify this issue and it looks like it will pass. Our land prices have not fallen the way they have in the rest of the country, so you will get less for your dollar here.</p><p></p><p>You would not get the kind of Special Education help that you are looking for. In fact, Oregon is recognized as one of the most under-served states for Special Education students. We currently fund our schools strictly through property taxes, but our new home construction is booming. In our district, a 2,000 student high school opened 5 years ago. It is already so overburdened that there are 19 temporary outbuildings to handle all of the new students. There is another ballot measure that will allow us to put a new schools fee on each builder's permit. But it's too late for all of those kids in all of those tens of thousands of new homes that have come in the last 10 years. We don't live in Yamhill County, and Yamhill does not have any special school funding that I know of. In past situations, the state has decided that Special Education counselors can meet and make decisions with sd attorneys during school breaks, that admin and s/e teachers etc can meet without parent's knowledge or consent so long as "no decisions are made", generally not a lot of sympathy or experience working with special needs students.</p><p></p><p>I have a friend in Minnesota who has three AS boys. She has been treated very well there. The districts do a lot of hands on learning (their learning, not the child's learning) about new procedures and ideas. She has gone to conferences all over the country that they have recommended and participated in.</p><p></p><p>Not to badmouth Oregon. I love it here. But if you don't know what your rights are, and you don't fight for them, they aren't going to offer them. And even if you can get access to them, you'll be one of the few getting them so they will be way behind the times in so far as experience.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I found this information on a conference that examined all of the states and their Special Education programs.</p><p></p><p> <a href="http://cehd.umn.edu/nceo/OnlinePubs/2003StateReport.htm" target="_blank">Special Education by state</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 84195, member: 99"] Oregon is beautiful. You would get a beautiful home in Yamhill or Marion County. You should be aware that we are in the midsts of a land use battle and you could not at this time guarantee that your neighboring landowners wouldn't put four hundred homes or a methane farm on the 40 acre lot next to you. This will probably change after our November elections, as there is a measure (49) that will rectify this issue and it looks like it will pass. Our land prices have not fallen the way they have in the rest of the country, so you will get less for your dollar here. You would not get the kind of Special Education help that you are looking for. In fact, Oregon is recognized as one of the most under-served states for Special Education students. We currently fund our schools strictly through property taxes, but our new home construction is booming. In our district, a 2,000 student high school opened 5 years ago. It is already so overburdened that there are 19 temporary outbuildings to handle all of the new students. There is another ballot measure that will allow us to put a new schools fee on each builder's permit. But it's too late for all of those kids in all of those tens of thousands of new homes that have come in the last 10 years. We don't live in Yamhill County, and Yamhill does not have any special school funding that I know of. In past situations, the state has decided that Special Education counselors can meet and make decisions with sd attorneys during school breaks, that admin and s/e teachers etc can meet without parent's knowledge or consent so long as "no decisions are made", generally not a lot of sympathy or experience working with special needs students. I have a friend in Minnesota who has three AS boys. She has been treated very well there. The districts do a lot of hands on learning (their learning, not the child's learning) about new procedures and ideas. She has gone to conferences all over the country that they have recommended and participated in. Not to badmouth Oregon. I love it here. But if you don't know what your rights are, and you don't fight for them, they aren't going to offer them. And even if you can get access to them, you'll be one of the few getting them so they will be way behind the times in so far as experience. I found this information on a conference that examined all of the states and their Special Education programs. [url="http://cehd.umn.edu/nceo/OnlinePubs/2003StateReport.htm"]Special Education by state[/url] [/QUOTE]
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