We wouldn’t stand for it if children without disabilities were disciplined by being placed in a concrete room while school staff held the door shut. The practice has become acceptable, though, when it comes to children with special education [...]
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Just last week, the Governor signed Public Act 11-93, imposing new requirements intended to protect children from abuse by school employees. The law adopts recommendations made in a report issued in July 2010 by the Office of the Child Advocate and the Attorney General. The report, Protecting Our Children: Improving Protections for Children When Allegations [...] The Connecticut legislature’s Committee on Education will hold a public hearing today to consider Raised Bill 6326, An Act Concerning the Response of School Districts and The Departments of Education and Children and Families to reports of Child Abuse and Neglect. If passed, the bill would implement the recommendations of the Child Advocate’s report, Protecting [...] The State Department of Education has extended the deadline for responding to proposed revisions to the special education regulations. Any member of the public can comment on the proposed revisions to the special education regulations either by testifying at a public hearing or submitting written comments to the State Department of Education. Public hearings will be held [...] The Connecticut State Department of Education has proposed amendments to the special education regulations. Two public hearings on the proposed regulations will be held. The first hearing will be held on Monday, August 30, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at 25 Industrial Park Road, Middletown, CT, Room MCR3. The second hearing will be held [...]
Effective today, children placed in foster care or other out-of-home care by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) can stay in the school they were attending when they were removed from their home, rather than changing schools based on where they are placed. Until [...] Three years ago, the Connecticut legislature passed a law, Public Act 07-66, to require suspensions of students to occur in school unless “the administration determines that the pupil being suspended poses such a danger to persons or property or such a disruption of the educational process that the pupil shall be excluded from school during [...] |
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