Indeed, as the authors, Alan Gartner and Dorothy Kermer Lipsky, discovered most agencies do not even collect such data. Here in California, nothing has happened that might change this observation. If they are not, we will move to enforcement and sanctions and will make sure our state, local education agencies, teaches, special education local plan areas, and counties provide high quality, compliant services that ensure children with special education needs achieve to high standards, participate fully in the least restrictive environment, and have available to them the services or sets of services to make that possible. Nannie Abbey Marie Sanchez Candidate, New Mexico Board of Education Sanchez did not win, but she was the first person with Down Syndrome to ever run for state office. The California Special Education Observer provides news and information from the parent perspective.
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