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On July 14, 2016 the State Director of Special Education issued an advisory to help school districts provide students on IEPs with high quality transition services. You can read the entire advisory here. The advisory encourages districts to make transition services "purposeful and sequential" with the goal of being individualized and results oriented.
We are pleased to announce that for the third consecutive year, Attorney Lillian Wong has been selected to the Super Lawyer New England Rising Star list for her work in School and Education Law.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, in Champa v. Weston Public Schools (SJC 11838) (October 23, 2015) recently decided that private settlement agreements between public school districts and parents, once redacted of personally identifiable information, are public records subject to disclosure. Previously, many school districts believed that disclosure of settlement agreements violated the Federal Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) and its Massachusetts equivalent.
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post explaining that the Massachusetts Anti-Bullying Law does not apply to teacher-on-student bullying. But as I said then, just because the bullying law doesn't apply in this situation, doesn't mean there isn't a remedy. Instead, students and parents must consider several different causes of action.
Attorney Wong is pleased to announce that she has joined the American Diabetes Association's Advocacy Attorney Network, a group of attorneys from around the country dedicated to ending discrimination against people who have diabetes. Attorney Wong has previously advocated for clients with diabetes , and her work with the American Diabetes Association will focus on education issues. The American Diabetes Association website contains a number of helpful documents about advocacy and legal rights for students with diabetes in the school setting. You can find those documents here.
Have you seen the latest issue of Autism Asperger's Digest? If you did, you might have read Attorney Lillian Wong's feature article, "Hiring a Special Education Attorney." Attorney Wong's article provides parents throughout the country with important and practical advice about choosing the right law firm to represent and advocate for their child in a special education dispute.
Attorney Lillian Wong will be one of the faculty members presenting in a 2-day practical course, Special Education Law From A to Z. This comprehensive seminar will lay out all the essential requirements surrounding IEP development, discipline procedures and due process hearings.
Bookmark http://www.specialedlaw.com/ and search Board of Special Education Appeals ("BSEA") decisions and rulings, DESE guidance, laws, and regulations in Massachusetts. You can also sign up to be notified when new decisions are release.
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