Parents Urge The School District To Do Better

Speaking Up

Two parents gave public comment last week that provided a road map for how the new school board can improve the LAUSD for its students.

Frustration within the Special Education community is pervasive and growing. In July, Vicky Maronyan’s entry in my “Voices From the Community” series quickly took on a life of its own and became the article with the highest number of reads on my Medium blog. It currently has over 19.6 K views.

The parent calling into the board meeting details the trouble she is having getting her child the support needed to successfully navigate inclusion in a general education environment. While the LAUSD continues to push this type of inclusion on parents, even when it is not appropriate for their children, it is failing miserably at making sure that mainstreaming is successful. It almost seems like the only metric that matters is how many children are mainstreamed, not how many are benefited.

The inability to get students the supports that they need is a failure of an IEP system where local teams are not empowered to provide options that are student-centered. A lack of training for parents facing the bureaucracy is also a problem as is the difficulty of navigating the due process system, especially when parents do not have access to a lawyer. The proposed “Improving Special Education Withing the LAUSD” resolution would help to fix many of these problems and…

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