Partial History of NJ Struggle for a Better IDEIA 2004
Defend Special
Ed: NJ Action Initiated / Strong IDEA List Serve Started
NJ State
IDEA Page /
Gantwerk to
Districts: Send Input / Parents Respond to
Gantwerk Letter
B.
Gantwerk Fast Tracks Changes
IDEA Revisions: What's in Store.
IDEA Now of NJDDC /
SPAN IDEA Survey / SPAN IDEA
Links /
ARC IDEIA 2004 Newsletter
What
Feedback is Your Pupil Services Director Providing to NJ DOE on IDEIA 2004?
Action Required: Parent Advocate Attorneys Respond to DOE Direction to
Districts
Petition in the News:
PETITION DRIVE IN
TRENTON TIMES / GANTWERK DISDAINS PARENT INPUT!
Deconstruction of Gantwerk's Comments
Get letters into your local and regional papers:
Opinion Page: Special Education Families Unite!
Newspaper: NJ Student Advocate
- Hot Off the Presses
IDEIA 2004 NJ Hearings /
Implementation Schedule: We Should Demand a Date Change to a Saturday!
Evening Meeting January 18? NJ Board of
Ed Might Respond to Call of Parents / Advocates
LETTER SENT TO STATE BOARD
OFFICE ON
SPECIAL EDUCATION CODE HEARING PROCESS
Report on 12/21/2005 NJ Board of Education
Hearing on IDEIA 2004 Revisions to NJ Code
Report: Parent Victory – Board Hearing Rooms Maxed
Out
(and Board Attempts to Befuddle are Overcome!)
January 18 Hearings /
Candle Light Support Rally Press Coverage
Report: January 18, 2006:
Successes of Evening and Challenges Before Us
RESPONSE FROM STATE BOARD
OF EDUCATION TO THE NJ STUDENT ADVOCACY UNION ON STATE CODE IMPLEMENTATION
PROCESS
State Reschedules Hearing Process (and a
response)
ANALYZING THE CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
OF STATE HEARINGS ON CODE CHANGES
Call for Inclusive, Collaborative
and Democratic Board of Education Special Education Code Hearing Process
SPAN Preliminary Review of Latest
Code Draft
Ask the Advocate
NJ Complaint Form (MS Word)
(PDF)
On Line Public Hearing on IDEIA 2004
Survey on NJ OSEP Complaint
Process
Past Activities
IEP Wkshp
Rec. Programs for
those w/ Disabilities
An Evening of Educational Advocacy
September 8, 2005 Edison, NJ
What The Student Advocate Has Done for Our Children
Lately . . .
NJ IDEIA 2004 Organizing Committee
Minutes of IDEIA 2004 meeting on Thu., May
26
Student Rights Radio
Discussion, October 31
Effort to
Reach Gubernatorial Hopefuls and Acting Governor / Candidates
IDEA: An Update
Dec. 5, 2005
Middletown
January 18,
2006: Hold a Candle Light for Our Children's Rights
50 Strong For Our
Children
No. Jersey Radio Interview Aired, 1/22
Petitioning for Rights Children: Legal in Princeton
Interview on NJ IDEIA Rights
- Racial Disparities in Sp-Ed
Call
is Heard in Montgomery Twp: Inclusive Recreation
NJSAU Minutes 2/18/2006
Playing and Singing for
Our Rights, 4/1/6
Better IDEA Laws for Special Education
Students?
Better IEPs? Anything is Possible!
April
1 Report: Student Advocacy Union - Fundraising Concert
Mobilization for Rights
of Our Children, May 17, 2006, Trenton
Nationwide Internet Radio Rally for Sp-Ed Parent Rights
9pm EST, Sat. May 20
Parents’ Rally @ Statehouse in Trenton Thursday, June 8, 2006
Piscataway Parents Mtg, June 19, 2006