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Ellen Mc Hugh
NYC, NY
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Ellen commented on the article |School Boards are a great way to be involved in education...... if you have them. Here in NYC there are only advisory panels with little or no input into the action of eduction.While I haven't read you earlier posts I wonder if you will address the following issues that I think you may have overlooked: funding education for children with special needs, integrating children with special needs within general education programs/ classrooms and the involvement of parents in their child's education. The initial act of Congress, passed in 1975, guaranteed the right of children with disabilities to a free and appropriate eduction and called for a gradual increase of funding to states of 40%...we are at about 18% now. Children with disabilities are still disproportionally placed in separate and segregated classrooms and denied access to the simplest of school activities: gym, lunch and trips.
Parents are rarely viewed as full partners in the education of a child. For the most part staff and leadership would keep parents at arms length and request only that parents make kids do homework, a very necessary action, or raise money. Parents can bring much broader skills to bear if there is a more open community in the school
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