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Funding for Illinois special education approved More than 200 Illinois school districts could be in line for a total of $21 million in state funding for special education programs. Read more... Fight over special ed facility not over At least one local school board member says he'll push to fight the Special Education District of Lake County over approval it received for a $26.5 million building project. Read more... Schools struggle to fund special education When Mike Padavic took his first job as a social worker for the AERO Cooperative in 1985, his $16,000 annual salary seemed reasonable. Read more... Special ed funding to be restored, dismissed teachers not promised jobs School districts statewide that had to dip into their general fund this school year to help supplement special education funding may soon be reimbursed Read more... CCHS coordinates special education efforts Officials at Carbondale Community High School are working ahead on improving the district's special education service, even before seeing recommendations from the state of Illinois. Read more... Referendum failure means drastic schedule changes Split shifts, year-round school and staggered start times are among the proposed schedule changes that Lockport High School District 205 officials will begin debating as they come together for the first time this week since the defeat of a referendum measure to build a new high school. Read more... In the classroom: Integrating students helps overcome obstacles In first-grade teacher Karen Tallman's class, the name of every student is attached to the top of their desk. Read more... Educators, special-ed group in talks Strike scheduled to start this morning Read more... Many schools fail only in special ed Some question how students are tested Read more... Hope Institute plans school in Chicago The Springfield-based Hope Institute for Children and Families will open in fall 2009 an elementary school in Chicago that will have a special focus on children with autism. Read more... Parents say school for disabled a disgrace Calling conditions at their West Englewood school a disgrace, irate parents and students called on Chicago Board of Education officials Wednesday to relieve overcrowding at Southside Occupational Academy, a public vocational school for students with learning disabilities. The school was... Read more... Special education funding shot down SPRINGFIELD - A proposal to pump $21 million into special education fell victim Friday to the highly politicized budget fight that has dominated the State Capitol this year. Read more... Parents want Dist. 300 'jewel' school as-is Emma's parents joined many other parents and teachers from deLacey Tuesday night in urging the school board to not move the at-risk preschoolers to another building. Their concern arose from a proposal the District 300 administration made last month. To address crowded elementary schools on the district's east side, the administration suggested... Read more... Area parents can send their at-risk kids to preschool Carol Pemberton's 3-year-old son Steven started attending a free preschool for at-risk children one month ago -- and she can already see the difference in him. Read more... Schools could force college to make way Special-ed co-op would move in Fox College would move out of its longtime location in Oak Lawn to make room for a more permanent home for the AERO Special Education Cooperative under a proposal the Oak Lawn-Hometown School District 123 board is expected to approve Monday... Read more... Lending ears to learners Thanks to technology, and new teaching tools that help students use it, deaf children are excelling in mainstream classrooms A beige plastic device the size of a quarter that peeks from his sandy blond hair is the only visible sign Adam Ballent is profoundly deaf... Read more... Special ed teacher tied to abuse of 3 autistic boys He is a 12-year-old autistic boy who never learned to speak... So when the boy came home from Robert Frost Junior High School in August, he had no way to explain the horrible bruises on one of his shins... Read more... YouthBuild to offer high school diplomas BLOOMINGTON - McLean County has a new high school. Although YouthBuild McLean County doesn't have a sports team or mascot, it will begin issuing high school diplomas in June... Read more... 'In the right hands': Kids with autism getting their own school Specialized learning in Rockford will be offered to 10 children beginning Monday. Sam has autism. He couldn't handle a regular classroom and found it difficult in special education programs offered by school districts. Monday, Sam finally will go to a school where he fits, the new... Read more... Company profits by special education NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mark Claypool left social work jaded by how special education students were shuffled around and ignored in public schools. He had one radical idea: The best way to teach special education students would be to turn a profit while doing it... Read more... Virtual schooling growing at K-12 level TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --As a seventh-grader, Kelsey-Anne Hizer was getting mostly D's and F's and felt the teachers at her Ocala middle school were not giving her the help she needed. But after switching to a virtual school for eighth grade, Kelsey-Anne is receiving more individual attention and making A's and B's... Read more... Opinion: Autistic children forgotten I am a mother of two children who have been diagnosed with severe autism. I am writing in response to the governor's cutting funding for autism and what it means to families like me in Illinois... Read more... Students + parents' help = success Don't worry, no math skills required for Antioch seminar on study strategies Recognizing the desire to help their children study and knowledge of the Periodic Table don't always go hand in hand, Antioch Community High School is offering a free four-session seminar for parents wanting to learn how to assist their student. Read more... New high-tech board comes to classrooms Gone are the days of dusty chalkboards and filmstrips. The new board resembles a dry-erase whiteboard, but is actually an interactive computer screen the size of a chalkboard and remote-controlled by a pad carried by the teacher, wirelessly communicating with the Internet... Read more... Opinion: Do our best students get left behind? In a society rife with many real and purported categories of victims, it might be hard to consider the intellectually brightest among us as similarly isolated or maligned. The Aug. 27 issue of Time does just that in a "Failing Our Geniuses" cover story... Read more... Parents against preschool plan A decision by Elgin Area School District U-46 to separate special education and mainstream preschoolers would harm both groups - and possibly violate the law, a group of parents told the school board Monday... Read more... Report: Special ed students struggle to meet state test targets ROCKFORD - Expect more schools to miss Adequate Yearly Progress targets under the federal No Child Left Behind Act across the state in coming years. Preliminary 2007 data shows that special education students... Read more...
DECATUR - Camps and other social opportunities are simply part of summer for most children. That's not usually the case, however, for children with... Read more... |
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