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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found the following two paragraphs -- one from each article -- to be thought-provoking:

[quote]"Historically, DCPS has not done a spectacular job of providing great general education for students," Beers said. "If you get to middle school and are reading at a third- and fourth-grade level and you don't know what's going on in the class because you can't keep up with the content, you act out behaviorally. Then you get identified as a student who has emotional disabilities when the reality is that we didn't provide the upfront education." [/quote]

[quote]4. Students with disabilities were placed in a remedial classroom set up for students who are at risk of academic failure but not for students with disabilities (entitled the Targeted Intervention Program –TIP). These students did not appear to receive specialized instruction hours for reading prescribed in their IEPs, [/quote]

Here's a thought:  Perhaps some of those middle schoolers reading at a third- and fourth-grade level who have been misidentified as disabled turned up at BASIS DC, and the staff at BASIS recognized that, rather than suffering from emotional or learning disabilities, these students needed remedial instruction.[/quote]

IEP are legally binding documents. Teachers can't defy them willy-nilly.[/quote]

It didn't sound like they were ignoring them willy-nilly:

[quote]1. Most of the documented IEPs, as well as accompanying notes and minutes that included decisions that altered the plan or established that the services were not needed, were either missing entirely from the students’ file folders or were not signed by the parent and/or the school's administration,

2. The student files at the school and the files found in the EasyIEP/ Special Education Database System (SEDS) maintained by OSSE do not match. SEDS is the system of record for IEPs of students with disabilities, and it is state policy that all LEAs maintain in SEDS current and accurate records, 
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In other words, the IEPs were changed in the context of an IEP meeting, but minutes were not taken, administrators and parents failed to sign the revised IEPs, the revised IEPs were not entered into SEDS, etc.[/quote]

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