Talk:Special education in the United States

message: In the last couple of weeks, I've been trying to insert more detail, more citations, and information from the original sources, such as regulations, authoritative federal cases and so on. I've repaired some broken links.   I added a section on special education finance.  I've added links to some of the key statutes and regulations.  I've added a section explaining the cooperative federalism structure of US special education law.  I've made a few corresponding revisions as well to LRE and FAPE sections.   If you see errors, by all means fix em.  
What is missing, I think, is a sense of the major current policy issues that are facing special education.  The relationship to NCLB.   The emerging financial challenges to public schools arising from an increasing number of students who don't speak English and a rising child poverty rate, just at the time that States are cutting back support for regular and special education. One needs a sense of the challenges faced by local schools when the state and federal governments impose increasing requirements while cutting state funding support.  Jvonkorff (talk) 00:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Added legal citations and information from major cases

message: This article is pretty awful.  It looks like it's been a long time since anyone gave it much attention (and that was probably by an education lawyer, given how that dominated the beginning).  I've cleaned up the lead a bit with some very general information.  Would anyone like to pick a section to fix up next?  WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:21, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, presumably because we don't have a non-questionable reliable source that confirms either the 40%, or the 20%, or the implication that the 40% is supposed to be measured by each state individually, instead of an overall average.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:50, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit 

message: http://www.sgmdoc.com/litigation.htm has an interesting list of lawsuits, including those that established the pre-1975 exclusion of students with special needs.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:04, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History source 

message: section from article on Cherry Hill Public Schools:
===Controversy===
In April 2012, the parent of an autistic student released a video on Youtube"Teacher/Bully: How My Son Was Humiliated and Tormented by his Teacher and Aide", Stuart Chaifetz, video at YouTube, posted April 20, 2012 providing evidence that the student was the subject of emotional abuse at the hands of his teacher and aide at Horace Mann Elementary School, in the Cherry Hill school district.Horace Mann Elementary School website. The evidence was secured when the child's father, Stuart Chaifetz, wired his son before sending him to school. When Chaifetz listened to the audio recording, according to one news report, "Chaifetz says he caught his son's teachers gossiping, talking about alcohol and violently yelling at students. He took the audio to the Cherry Hill School District, where officials fired one of the teachers involved after hearing the tape.  Chaifetz's son was relocated to a new school, where Chaifetz says he is doing well."NJ Father Records Teachers Bullying His Autistic Child, MyFoxPhilly.com"Verbal abuse of autistic student sparks calls for reform", Jim Walsh and Phil Dunn, Cherry Hill Courier-Post, reprinted at USA Today website, 29 April 2012 Chaifetz created a petition asking for legislation to allow the immediate firing of teachers who have bullied students. As of April 29, it had garnered over 149,000 signatures."To the New Jersey Legislature and Congress: Pass legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired", petition at Change.org, access date 29 April 2012
Should this be here? maybe at the autism article? I think it may deserve its own article.(mercurywoodrose)75.61.140.126 (talk) 17:50, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Appropriate here?

message: In April 2012, the parent of an autistic student released a video on Youtube"Teacher/Bully: How My Son Was Humiliated and Tormented by his Teacher and Aide", Stuart Chaifetz, video at YouTube, posted April 20, 2012 providing evidence that the student was the subject of emotional abuse at the hands of his teacher and aide at Horace Mann Elementary School, in the Cherry Hill school district.Horace Mann Elementary School website. The evidence was secured when the child's father, Stuart Chaifetz, wired his son before sending him to school. When Chaifetz listened to the audio recording, according to one news report, "Chaifetz says he caught his son's teachers gossiping, talking about alcohol and violently yelling at students. He took the audio to the Cherry Hill School District, where officials fired one of the teachers involved after hearing the tape.  Chaifetz's son was relocated to a new school, where Chaifetz says he is doing well."NJ Father Records Teachers Bullying His Autistic Child, MyFoxPhilly.com"Verbal abuse of autistic student sparks calls for reform", Jim Walsh and Phil Dunn, Cherry Hill Courier-Post, reprinted at USA Today website, 29 April 2012 Chaifetz created a petition asking for legislation to allow the immediate firing of teachers who have bullied students. As of April 29, it had garnered over 149,000 signatures."To the New Jersey Legislature and Congress: Pass legislation so that teachers who bully children are immediately fired", petition at Change.org, access date 29 April 2012
Should this be here? maybe at the autism article? I think it may deserve its own article.(mercurywoodrose)75.61.140.126 (talk) 17:50, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Teaching Internship in Special Education