Is special education instruction by a paraprofessional legal?

schoolkidslawyer May 12, 2015 12 Comments

Recently, I was asked this (not so) hypothetical: “4th grade child has an IEP (high functioning Down Syndrome) and is placed in a life skills classroom. There is one special education teacher and seven aides rotating through the classroom.  Reading and math instruction is being solely taught by an aide with the teacher touching base […]

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Pass the IEP, please!

schoolkidslawyer September 6, 2012 0 Comments

You remember at the dinner table (perhaps most notably the Thanksgiving Dinner table) when you would ask someone to pass something along?  Maybe it was the stuffing bowl; maybe it was the cranberry sauce; maybe it was the dinner rolls; or maybe it was the fruit cake (OK, I know it wasn’t the fruit cake […]

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