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  • Parent Prevail in Due Process: Part II

    Part II The Decision   The Parents were the prevailing party on all the major issues. Below is a copy of the Hearing official decision for the due process enjoy. Part III will include hints tips and suggestion on how to win a due process hearing.Enjoy...

  • Parent Prevail in Due process: Part I

    Parent Prevails in Due Process Hearing Against Norfolk City Public Schools District      Case background Part I   In March of 2009, I was hired to provide advocacy services for a woman who was the legal guardian of her nephew, a 9 year old male...

  • Virginia Beach parents enlist help in special education battle

    Virginia Beach parents enlist help in special education battle By Lauren RothThe Virginian-Pilot© April 13, 2008VIRGINIA BEACHFor five years, every time Lona Hyde has gone to her son’s school to discuss his special education needs, she’s brought alo...

  • The Relationship Between IDEA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

    The Relationship Between IDEA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act A federal appeals court ruled today that remedies available under the main federal special education law do not limit parents from also pursuing claims under a broader federal law ba...

  • District accused of ignoring abuse

    District accused of ignoring abuse School's Padded Room Upsets Parents Of Special Needs Students: Parents Confront School Board. CHERRY HILL, N.J.Some parents who are alarmed because they just learned about a special room with padded walls and floor conf...

  • Class Action Lawsuit: Judge Orders Sanctions Against School District, Remedies for Kids

    Class Action Lawsuit: Judge Orders Sanctions Against School District, Remedies for Kids by Pamela Wright & Peter WrightCreated: 09/25/07Jamie S. v. Milwaukee Public Schools (E.D. WI, Case # 01-C-928) began in September 2001, when the plaintiffs filed...

  • Student Says He Was Beaten Up By His Principal

    Student Says He Was Beaten Up By His Principal Monica Balderrama-KFOX News ReporterA high school freshman said he was beaten up by his principal and two security guards on Thursday.His parents feel the staff at the school including the principal are not ...

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Complying with disability laws.

    SPECIAL REPORT: Complying with disability laws. Davis Beatty should attend William Fox Elementary - the school his brother and his neighbors attend - a few blocks from his Richmond home. But there are five steps to the Fan District school's front door. C...

  • Blind toddler granted special education services

    Blind toddler granted special education services Filed by Kay YoungPosted: june 4, 2008 03:57 PM EDTUpdated: June 26, 2008 12:25 AM EDTUPDATE: "She's going to go to school," Kim and Brant Edgar said, thrilled that their daughter Grace will receive specia...

  • Autistic children's school: Newport News families opening school geared to needs of autistic

      By Joe Lawlor, jlawlor@dailypress.com | 247-7874 7:09 a.m. EDT, June 8, 2011 NEWPORT NEWS — Chad Lenz stared intently at his fingers while they pressed on the piano keys, as he played Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection" and music from the Super...

  • School Board attorneys respond in special education case

    By Samieh Shalash, sshalash@dailypress.com | 247-4537 6:41 p.m. EDT, May 20, 2011 HAMPTON - Yining Luo wants her disabled son to have a quality education. A dispute with Hampton City Schools puts that in jeopardy, she says.An additional controversy betw...

  • In Custody or Free to Leave? Supreme Court Clarifies Miranda Rights

    D. B. v. North CarolinaIn Custody or Free to Leave? Supreme Court Clarifies Miranda Rights by Peter W.D. Wright, Esq. and Pamela Wright, MA, MSW   Link: http://www.wrightslaw.com/law/art/jdb.nc.scotus.analysis.htm     On June 16, 2011, the Suprem...

  • New Anti-Bullying Statute Goes Into Effect Today

    reported and posted on July 1, 2011 by Michelle C. Laubin If you haven't already, be sure to get a copy of Substitute Bill 1138, Public Act 11-232, effective July 1, 2011, which makes sweeping changes to the State's anti-bullying statute applicable to pu...

  • Chesapeake parents seek training on special-needs issues

    By Vicki FriedmanThe Virginian-Pilot© July 12, 2011 CHESAPEAKE Brandy and Michael Yetter claim administrators at Grassfield Elementary treated their son like a criminal rather than the boy he is: a 6-year-old first-grader with special needs. The Yette...

  • Parents file complaints about special education classrooms that span six grade levels

    By Samieh Shalash, sshalash@dailypress.com | 757-247-4537 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting               end_of_the_skype_highlighting 10:35 p.m. EDT, September 26, 2011 HAMPTON — Before school began earlier this month, Sadie Boone stopp...

  • FERPA: When schools can't answer questions

    September 26, 2011|By Samieh Shalash, sshalash@dailypress.com | 757-247-4537 Federally-funded schools are required to be transparent about how they run and where taxpayer money goes. But there's one thing they must keep private: information from indiv...

  • What The Heck Is The Alinsky Method?

    This a Tactic that schools district love to use against parents and advocates, enjoy! The education establishment in this country, at all levels, continually decries the absence of parental involvement in the everyday process of educating the young peopl...

  • The IEP Team: The Law, the Reality and the Dream

    This a wonderful article by By Marcie Lipsitt, a fellow participant of the Willian and Mary Law School Special Education Institute.  “Free appropriate public education” — Never have four words had such power to determine a child’s chance for a ...

  • Family of Autistic Boy Alleges Abuse, Seeks $20 M From School System

    Roanoke, VA - The lawyer for a Bedford County father has filed a $20 million lawsuit against a number of parties, including a former school bus driver and former driver's aide. Thomas Kilpatrick, 47, is accusing the two women of physically abusing his 12...