Seattle Schools Community Forum: Sped and the Superintendent

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Sped and the Superintendent

Sped and the Superintendent

Editor's note; I took out the reference to a "swarm" of people, forgetting that swarm actually implies a large group and that was not my intent.  As well, I had one unpleasant comment saying I was comparing people to insects. Not the case because there are many words used to describe a group. Swarm is one of them.  You can look it up.

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The Superintendent visited the Special Education SCPTSA last week.

Just broadly, the Superintendent was given a lengthy intro - not by PTA folks but by Nicole Fitch, SpEd Director, then Juneau stated some platitudes and then had one interesting statement about leaving the "technical" knowledge/work to Sped staff.  I would certainly not expect the Superintendent to know all Sped issues inside out but I certainly wouldn't expect her to deflect a question in that manner.
Per the Strategic Plan, there are some basic questions from Sped parents:

• What is SPS doing to ensure equitable access for students with disabilities?
• How are they ensuring that students with disabilities have equitable access to their neighborhood schools? 
• Or what are they doing to ensure students with disabilities being included in extracurricular activities?

It can't be stated enough that, for many Sped families, just trying to get their CONTINUE READING: Seattle Schools Community Forum: Sped and the Superintendent