Concerned parents and educators have created an online petition to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
They are afraid that she will use this period of national crisis to reduce the rights of students with disabilities.
Please read their petition, and if you agree with them, please add your name.
Thank you so much Professor Ravitch!
Betsy DeVos is trying to use the current crises to impose IDEA waivers, robbing students with disabilities of their right to a free and appropriate public education (FAPE). Students with disabilities, their families, SPED advocates, and SPED organizations, are encouraged to read and sign. The organizers are also looking for testimonials and anecdotes from parents.
OK: that’s a job done.
Special education children need more support, not less.
Done.
Done.Thanks so much for posting this, Diane. I will be directing approx. 200 individuals ^ orgs. to this post (anyone not reading the blog needs to do so, esp. at this time) to sign this petition. We need way more than 368 signatures!
Yes!