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Open Letter: Reinstate the Grade 6-12 Virtual Program
Dear School Board Directors, Superintendent Jones and Senior Staff: At the August 11 School Board meeting, District staff assured the School Board that they would assist families who had registered for the Virtual Program, Grades 6-12, to find and enroll in other...
Open Letter: Policy 3246 and accompanying Procedure
Dear School Board Directors, Superintendent Jones and Senior Staff, Thank you for this opportunity to provide comments from the Special Education PTSA about Policy 3246 and the accompanying Procedure, which will be introduced at the August 25 School Board meeting. As...
Summer Programming
The Seattle Special Education PTSA calls for an investigation of summer programming for students with disabilities in Seattle Public Schools. The issues faced by students and families during Summer 2021 were unacceptable and yet, many families would say that they were...
School Board Testimony 7/7/21
One year ago, the Special Education PTSA wrote to you and to the District about the fact that students with disabilities were not assigned to the proper tiers and were not being served in the summer of learning program. The Special Education Department reassigned a...
Open Letter: Recovery Services
Dear School Board Directors, Superintendent Jones and Senior Staff, As you know, students with IEPs who have not made appropriate progress on pre-COVID IEP goals are entitled to recovery services. These are services additional to what is provided in a student’s IEP to...
School Board Testimony 6/2/21
I am Janis White, President of the Seattle Special Education PTSA. Special education recovery services -- once again, parents are getting confusing and inconsistent messages from schools, there has not been a full partnership with community and we are concerned that...
Q13 story on SPS recovery plan
Janis White, Special Education PTSA president, discusses the recovery plan that SPS submitted to OSPI. Seattle Public Schools gets approval from board to submit recovery plan to OSPI (q13fox.com)
Seattle’s Child: Opinion | District has failed to deliver on special education during pandemic
Opinion | District has failed to deliver on special education during pandemic | Seattle's Child
School Board Testimony 1/13/2021
Since last spring we have been hearing that students who receive special education services and are unable to access remote learning would be prioritized for in-person learning. How has that worked out? It has been an individual IEP team decision, requiring review of...
