Anonymous
02/04/2025 21:54
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The IEP system has been broken for many years. DOE isn’t doing their job so give it to someone else and hope it gets better.
The Dept. of Ed's actual functions are really misunderstood. It's mostly a bank that distributes guidance and federal $ that Congress appropriates for Pell Grants, Title 1, IDEA, and some relatively tiny other grant programs, like for HBCUs.
Implementation/IEPs are at the state and mostly local levels. As a PP said, if you want it to get better, Congress needs to actually fund IDEA and the ADA (which it never has, not even close). That's why the Trump rhetoric re: giving power to the states on this issue is misleading - they already have the authority, just not enough $.
The Dept. of Ed does investigate civil rights violations under IDEA, which DOGE will almost certainly cut. And it seems likely that IDEA and Title 1 funding, which pay for many SPED positions at schools, will be diminished more.
This is bad for kids.
The entire IEP process as it stands is bad for kids and teachers and families and schools. IEP law is federal- the DOE should be at a minimum assisting these schools in ways to create better systems to maximize funds within the constraints of those laws. Instead all they do is pass out money and fight legal battles and add requirements and paperwork that’s useless. It’s just not a sustainable system and you said yourself DOE is just a bank. We don’t need a bank, we need educators that can go in and assist schools and show them ways to consolidate and maximize funding. If federal law is prohibiting that then DOE should be fixing it. It’s been nearly the same IEP system for decades and I can tell you it’s only gotten harder to implement. Find someone that can make the system better, not just write a check.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 21:34
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
You're is what I meant not your...
Anonymous
02/04/2025 21:34
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:I’m beyond livid at how stupid people are.
If you have a child with an IEP they will be affected by Musk/MAGA shutting down the Dept of Education.
I’m a speech therapist. I worked for VB schools for 2 years. Let me be clear: Federal funding is attached to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) the law that gives your child IEP services. Which is overseen by the Dept of Education. Call your senator, representatives and the VA state governor, Youngkin (who is running ads to shut down the Dept of Ed).
Your a ST and this is your first sentence posting to mostly parents of children with SN?
Anonymous
02/04/2025 21:12
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:The entire system is an absolute waste of money!
Do you know what it a real waste of money. Locking people out of their places of work and email systems while the US government continues to pay civil servants for work that DOGE single handedly has stopped them from doing. Don't forget about the loss of productivity that is happening across all government agencies due to the turmoil and stress of workers being let go without cause, the nightly threatening emails that FEDS are getting and the unnecessary restructuring. How about all the money that is now being spent on finding new worksites (building leases) and equipment (computers, desks, chairs, phones) for federal workers to use when they already have perfectly functioning worksites they aren't allowed to use anymore.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 21:01
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:The IEP system has been broken for many years. DOE isn’t doing their job so give it to someone else and hope it gets better.
The Dept. of Ed's actual functions are really misunderstood. It's mostly a bank that distributes guidance and federal $ that Congress appropriates for Pell Grants, Title 1, IDEA, and some relatively tiny other grant programs, like for HBCUs.
Implementation/IEPs are at the state and mostly local levels. As a PP said, if you want it to get better, Congress needs to actually fund IDEA and the ADA (which it never has, not even close). That's why the Trump rhetoric re: giving power to the states on this issue is misleading - they already have the authority, just not enough $.
The Dept. of Ed does investigate civil rights violations under IDEA, which DOGE will almost certainly cut. And it seems likely that IDEA and Title 1 funding, which pay for many SPED positions at schools, will be diminished more.
This is bad for kids.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 20:04
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:The entire system is an absolute waste of money!
You are disgusting. Please take your hatred elsewhere. And when one of your children or grandchildren need help, don’t look to society at large for any help.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:59
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:The entire system is an absolute waste of money!
I’m sorry, but you’re in the kids with special needs and disabilities forum. You seem to have wandered in by accident
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:57
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
The entire system is an absolute waste of money!
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:39
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
I’ve been talking about this for years. Republicans want to abolish the DOE because they don’t want to pay for special education at the state and local levels which is governed federally and incredibly expensive. They should be ashamed for wanting to take away resources from our most vulnerable children and their families. It’s despicable.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:39
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:There’s no proposal to cut off IDEA funding as far as I am aware?
Why does a plan matter? There are unelected people with no accountability going into federal agencies accessing classified information, cutting off the funds to programs, locking the doors of government agencies, barring employees from entering, and shutting off their access from email. When this happens to the department of education your child will definitely be impacted.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:39
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
I’m very worried about our lovely special ed teachers. They deserve to stay in the current billets, not get shuffled around.
Also, we pay for private, so my kids could survive without his IEP, but not everyone in our school can. His classmates need those services if they can’t pay.
Also, we pay for private, so my kids could survive without his IEP, but not everyone in our school can. His classmates need those services if they can’t pay.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:37
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:I mean, our county seems to only spend money *creating* an IEP. They offer scant services, and don’t fulfill them. So maybe some restructuring will be good
Nope it won’t be good for kids with disabilities.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:36
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:The IEP system has been broken for many years. DOE isn’t doing their job so give it to someone else and hope it gets better.
It’s not going to get better. It’s going to go away. Some of you are just so naive.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:35
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:The IEP system has been broken for many years. DOE isn’t doing their job so give it to someone else and hope it gets better.
Maybe you should speak with Congress about fully funding ADA and IDEA.
Anonymous
02/04/2025 19:26
Subject: IEP impact / from Musk & DoE
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There’s no proposal to cut off IDEA funding as far as I am aware?
As though disability and accessibility are high priorities for this administration.
Our kids are f-ed
Unfortunately I think you're right.