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		<title>Districts strain to serve students with multiple, severe disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: School districts across the country are struggling to meet the needs of students who were once predominately isolated in institutions. Among the hard questions districts face: How can schools balance instruction in functional skills and academics for students with severe disabilities, even as they are providing custodial care? Is inclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 states get federal OK to cut special ed funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Education Week: At least two states have received federal permission to cut back on the money they spend on special education, and officials at the U.S. Department of Education are considering a request from a third. Iowa and Kansas have both won permission for the funding cuts, which can be granted under the Individuals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA schools chief defends remark about special ed, &#8216;regular kids&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Los Angeles Times, school superintendent Ramon C Cortines defends his recent statement that special education funding takes services away from &#8220;regular kids.&#8221; The comment came in an article about plans by the Los Angeles Unified School district to close 200 special education classrooms. An excerpt from Cortines&#8217; letter: &#8230; if legislation refers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does special ed &#8216;take from regular kids&#8217;? Readers react</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/08/does-special-ed-take-from-regular-kids-29693/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter writers to the Los Angeles Times take issue with LA school superintendent Ramon C. Cortines&#8217; assertion that special ed funding takes services away from &#8220;regular kids.&#8221; The comment came in an article about the district&#8217;s plans to cut 200 special ed classes. Said one writer: Perhaps Cortines would prefer we revert to the not-so-distant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA school district to close 200 special education classrooms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advocates worry that budget woes are turning back the clock for kids with disabilities From the Los Angeles Times: Faced with a multi-million dollar deficit, the Los Angeles Unified School District has announced plans for massive cuts in spending on services for students with disabilities. Some 200 special education classrooms will be closed, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>District pays $5 million in alleged abuse of students with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/04/5-million-settlement-29661/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer: A Pennsylvania school district has agreed to pay a $5 million settlement in response to a federal civil rights suit filed by parents who said their children with autism had been tied to chairs with bungee cords and duct tape. Defendants in the lawsuit, which included the Scranton-area school district as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As LA drops summer special ed for adults, a teacher objects</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/20/la-drops-summer-special-ed-29620/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By columnist Dennis McCarthy in the Los Angeles Daily News: The Los Angeles Unified School District has cancelled its summer classes for adults with developmental disabilities for the first time in 20 years, thanks to the budget crisis. Veteran special ed teacher Robert Zazula, who will be laid off for the summer as a result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocates cry foul over special ed funding loophole</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/07/special-ed-funding-loophole-29548/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 03:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: As school districts across the nation spend their federal stimulus money, some disability advocates say a loophole in the federal law has allowed districts to cheat students out of the very special education services the money was meant to bolster. A federal rule allows districts to use their stimulus dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asner, parents lash pending special ed cutbacks in LA</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/30/asner-parents-lash-pending-special-ed-cutbacks-in-la-29503/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times: Actor Ed Asner was among a group of 200 parents and advocates who turned out at Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters this week to criticize expected cuts to special education programs. The cuts will reverse progress for students with disabilities, they said. Asner, whose grandchild receives special education services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC plan: Shift kids with disabilities to mainstream schools</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/29/nyc-mainstream-29424/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: New York City&#8217;s Bloomberg administration has announced plans to overhaul the city&#8217;s special education system, seeking to include more students with disabilities in neighborhood schools. The city has traditionally concentrated students with disabilities in schools that have specific special education programs. Starting this fall, more than 250 schools will be [...]]]></description>
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