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MDE, DPS and an Educational Shell Game

The Michigan Department of Education is withholding $5 million dollars of federal money from the Detroit Public Schools after finding them in substantive violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, our federal law that mandates a ā€œfree appropriate public educationā€ for students with disabilities.Ā Ā  This is outrageous when the very same Department gave ALL […]

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The MDE unleashes the 9th Percentile on the definition of a ā€œSpecific Learning Disabilityā€

Can you answer the following question?Ā  What are 6 data points at or below the 9th percentile on a Curriculum Based Measurement (ā€œCBMā€)?Ā  Don’t know the answer?Ā  Count yourself among the tens-of-thousands of Michigan parents with a child at risk or already identified with a specific learning disability (ā€œSLDā€); along with our State’s woefully ill-prepared

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