Sweet!

PM'd you.

Interesting side note from an article: "As an aside, Pennsylvania, along with five other jurisdictions (California, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York and Puerto Rico), accounted for 80 percent of the due process complaints filed between 2006-07 and 2011-12, and 90 percent of the complaints that were adjudicated."

Pennsylvania not a surprise!!  Wonder where Missouri and Connecticut are . . . and Virginia?  Was there break out state-by-state?

REALLY appreciate your latest 2 posts in this thread! 

For the next generation coming into FAPE/504/ADA 2014-2015 and beyond.

If you had a chance to speak to an established group of advocates to indoctrinate them into our mindset of improving and advancing existing advocacy for students with LTFA, how would you want it presented in terms of group goals? I know what I think but should I decide to submit a paper to present at a respectably-sized conference for parent attorneys and advocates I would definitely consider input on structure and material. I have reason to believe that I can get a very legitimate, well-respected co-author as long as I do the work.

By the time of the conference the Fox Chapel oral arguments (Sept 12 in Philly) will already have been made and a decision possibly rendered. For registering a topic in order to present I have 3 days to decide.

The goal is to reach that audience of existing civil rights and special education attorneys and advocates that, IMO, need a little injection of FAS methodology in order to clarify the issues concretely for IgE-mediated allergies, further advancing and improving the advocacy that exists. My experience thus far is a lot of them are awesome on energy and desire to help but misunderstand a lot about how to advocate for food allergies and what that means in terms of accommodations and inclusion. The sense I get are there aren't too many in our advocacy organization with first hand experience of anaphylaxis and 504s.

I will tell you that what I see shaping up is essentially the direction of FA advocacy being whittled down to stock epinephrine + safe snack list = job done no need to address prevention and equal access for any other area deemed pesky or inconvenient. Great for Mylan's PR to be the life-saver. Unfortunately, we get on the Max's birthday track where prevention through strict avoidance is de-prioritized or completely ignored.

I name the enemy deliberate indifference and possibly, law firm ethics and expenditures that may require FOIA for audits. If my sources are accurate OCR is not prioritizing disability cases. It may come down to finding a way through the CPM or some of the recent cases to make claims that are of interest to DOJ. I'm fuzzy on where class action is possible and if so how structured.

Emailed this to myself for later reading. Placing another here. Haven't vetted source yet could be hot air. Could be insightful.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2013/07/12/in-secret-school-board-weighs-not-cooperating-with-federal-agency

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1373503567.pdf Oh, OK. Something labeled confidential client communication somehow is posted to the interweb. Of course.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/square/index.php?i=3&d=1&t=21307

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1361599043.pdf Reading, trying to unravel entire timeline of events. Can't vouch for veracity in sourcing.

http://pausd.org/community/PublicRecordsRequest/downloads/OCR-Resolution-agreements.pdf

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/print/story/2013/03/08/guest-opinion THIS will require a nice hot cuppa. 

Further note to self to start digging in to NCLB to add that SD boogeyman to the arsenal. Nice contingency to build a web of pressure points if one set of regulations has a weak spot. NCLB seems to have teeth, big and sharp.

TT, don't burn yourself out. 

This stuff is a marathon, not a sprint.

I'm a big fan of open source. What's the best approach for community contribution towards editing within that scheme? In forums, I mean. Wikis and cloud docs with edit permissions have built in mechanisms.

Maybe the (admins/committee members) could give you some input?


For myself, I'm happy with just using threads for now    ... but the board can do what it wants with my index threads after I'm done with them.  I mentioned when I started them (a long time ago  ) that board leaders can edit, add, delete, not keep them under the Links name ... whatever, I trust the board leadership  .  Paying back a little for all the help I received here over the years 

I'm not sure I understood anything you wrote

LOL ... never mind 

you seem to be a good handler for me so I have faith in that.

not handler ... partner.

What I know for sure is I can't seem to stop myself from challenging lawyers or pestering public employees so might as well see if anything useful can be squeezed from it.