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Category Archives: OCR Complaint
48. Let’s Go To Court? Not If I Can Help It.
There is only one type of individual that OSEP (Office of Special Education Programs) has discouraged from attending an IEP meeting and that is an attorney. While school attorneys are not expressly forbidden from attending IEP meetings, they are strongly … Continue reading
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17. Reflections of the ESE Policeman!
I soon realized that we as parents had no established vehicle to participate in the decision making process on a district t or even site based level. I read about the passage of Goals 2000. (GOALS 2000 – Educate America) … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Disability, Emotion, Evaluation, Inclusion, Least Restrictive Environment, OCR Complaint, Parent Involvement, Procedural Safeguards, Public School, Special Education
Tagged Complaint, Education reform, father to father, florida, Inclusion, NICHCY, OCR, parent involvement, special education
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16. OCR Investigation Is Complete. Back to The Neighborhood School!
The day finally arrived when I went to the mailbox and peered inside to find a fat letter with a return address from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in Atlanta, Georgia. I opened it and began to read. OCR … Continue reading
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15. Committed to Sharing Information and Resources
I returned home with renewed purpose empowered with all this new information and now a job to provide it to other parents. I also had the new tools of the computer and internet and email. I surfed the web reading … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocacy, father to father, florida, hearing impairment, IEP, Inclusion, Office of Civil Rights Complaint, parent advocacy, parent involvement, Public School, special education, Support group
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14. Pamphlets, Resources, Parents and a Computer Guru!
Still no word from OCR and the school year had come to a close. My son returned home and went off to summer school but with an extra five hours a day minus bus time to spend and was back … Continue reading
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12. I Was An Informed Parent, And A Force To Be Reckoned With!
The complaint was filed and we would have to await the ruling. The length of time for the complaint investigation to be processed by OCR was considerably longer than that under the State complaint. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/ocrcpm.html) OCR can extend that time … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocacy, Deafness, disability, Emotion, father to father, florida, hearing impairment, IEPs, Inclusion, Office of Civil Rights Complaint, parent advocacy, parent involvement, Public School, special education, State Complaint
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11. Learning More About Section 504
The next attempt at advocating for my son was to look at basic civil rights law. I read about Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and how it was an equal access law (http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/faqs.html). It was a comparison between children … Continue reading
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