Special Education
Who Will Stand Up For The LAUSD’s Most Vulnerable Students?
LAUSD parents must still negotiate IEPs without protections outlined in proposed “Improving Special Education Within the LAUSD” resolution.
– Re-elect Scott Schmerelson, 2020
For children with Special Education needs, the Individual Education Program (IEP) team decides the types of support and services the students will receive. While parents are supposed to be equal members of this team, experience presents a different reality. Some will find that successful programs, like Aut Core, are not being offered as the LAUSD forces children out of specialized classrooms. For those with severe needs, entire campuses have been declared out of bounds as the District continues to starve Special Education Centers of new students as it aims towards closing these schools.
As parents attempt to negotiate past these roadblocks, they cannot count on help from their child’s teacher because the LAUSD has cultivated a fear of retaliation for any employee who refuses to tow the company line. These teachers have been made…
