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Special Education Presentation to District Advisory Council on Compensatory Education (DAC)

Moira Allbritton, Chair Community Advisory Committee for Special Education (CAC)

Comparing and Contrasting the Advisory Groups

CAC

• Mandated under CA Ed Code for a

SELPA (Special Education Local Planning Area).

• By-laws currently set membership

at 35; must be parent majority.

• Minimal role in budget

development as services are driven by needs of individuals (with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protections).

DAC

• Mandated for school districts that

receive Economic Impact Aid; acting to certify for California Department of Education (CDE).

• Representative per Title I school;

this DAC supports input from all

• sites. Also must be parent

majority.

• Primary function is watchdog of

specific funds to ensure monies spent on intended students.

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Who do we represent?

CAC

• Approximately 15,000 students

from infancy through 22nd birthday are served by SDUSD.

DAC

• 62,487 students are meal-

eligible

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Students with Disabilities Students with Meal Eligibility

DAC and CAC share 8,741 constituents!

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Quick Timeline

• 1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• 1965: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Established right to

equal education for all

• 1972: Congressional Investigation – “Bureau of the Handicapped”

surveyed 8 million school-aged children with disabilities.

• 1975: Public Law 94-142 required states accepting federal money to

grant equal access to children with disabilities.

• 1997: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (“the IDEA”)

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My expectations about budget…are grim.

• Loss of some Special Education resource teachers.
• Reduction in Program Manager positions.
• Continued pressure to reduce Transportation costs.
• Immediate increased challenges in obtaining Related Services, supplemental

supports, assessments, and nonpublic school (NPS) placement.

• Difficulty assessing and placing our youngest learners.
• Fewer funds to address ongoing challenges in transition-aged students.
• Moderate/severe Education Specialist within elementary consolidated for

fall 2017.

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Budget Cuts Disproportionately Affect Kids in Sub-Groups. We need to stick together.

• All students not attending nonpublic schools are general education

students.

• Compounded when Students with Disabilities are also English

Learners, losing the essential access to specific English Language instruction.

• Students with Disabilities also face further loss of programs when the

monies you oversee shrink.

• And then, of course, Special Education program supports are

expected to diminish.

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We have w work to do! Please sha hare with your ur SSCs and nd sites!

Upcoming CAC meetings… Thursday, February 23 @ 7 p.m. – Ad hoc Committee on Discipline Ed Center, Room 2249 Thursday, March 9 @ 7 p.m. – CAC General Membership meeting Ballard Parent Center Auditorium Questions? cac@sandi.net

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