IASA E-News And Notes The suit alleges that children with special needs have been suspended, expelled, MSBA also manages workers compensation for 95% of montana s school http://www.iasaedu.org/publications/pub/newsandnotes-august10.htm
Extractions: In the next several issues of the specific attention will be given to the various aspects of IASA legislative endeavors. Before the first newsletter article was completed, Ralph Grimm, IASA Governing Board Member from the Western Region, sent an email message to the members of his Region. After reading his message I could think of no better way to begin this series of articles than to send you the words of one of your Directors who shares my enthusiasm for the importance of an effective legislative program. Thank you to Ralph for allowing me to use his letter, and compliments for setting the stage for the important work ahead of us in the coming legislative sessions. Walt Warfield Colleagues: With the new school year upon us, it is time once again to ask you to contribute to two political action campaigns. First, let me say that I am sending you this email from my home computer so there is no violation of the recently enacted Ethics legislation. I am asking you to contribute $100 to the IASA PAC (IPAC) and $25 to The [Illinois Statewide School Management] Alliance (APAC). Of course, you may make larger contributions if you wish. These contributions will cover the FY 05 year.
Extractions: What Do New Teachers Need? Although there have been few large-scale studies of new teacher induction programs, existing data confirm that schools that provide high levels of support for beginners do retain more teachers (Goodwin, 1999). The Santa Cruz New Teacher Project (SCNTP), for example, which has been in existence since 1993, reports that 90 percent of participating teachers have remained in the profession (Moir, n.d.). Weiss and Weiss (1999) cite a 93 percent retention rate in urban districts that provide formal induction programs for beginners. Benefits for students and schools:
POSITION PAPER ON THE REAUTHORIZ Both undermine efforts to close the achievement gap and to hold schools Family Resource Center for Disabilities and special needs, South Carolina http://www.educationnews.org/position-paper-on-the-reauthoriz.htm
Extractions: The National Committee of Parents and Advocates Organized to Protect IDEA represents millions of citizens who have come together to protect the educational guarantee required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The undersigned national, state and local organizations are united in opposition to the House and Senate bills that amend and reauthorize IDEA. Both of these bills weaken the rights and protections necessary to ensure that students with disabilities are not left behind.
Telecommunications, Education And The Handicapped While Connected Education has enrolled physically disabled students previously, montana College and serving rural schools and communities in that state. http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh/arts/zurich.htm
Extractions: Internet: NRCGSH@VAXE.ISC.RIT.EDU Computer telecommunication has been used at the Rochester Institute of Technology, (RIT), to reduce barriers to learning for the physically handicapped. I am a totally blind professor of history, and I have been using electronic mail and computer conferencing to increase my contact with students. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, (NTID), is on our campus, and this technology has enabled me to communicate with hearing impaired students without a human intermediary. In those classes taught using a computer conference instead of a face-to-face class, the deaf students, a blind professor and non-impaired students all participate on an equal basis. Those persons who became deaf as adults and who have good English skills but weak sign language skills have found this format extremely useful. One young woman said that she was able to participate fully in acollege class for the first time. Electronic mail and journaling with the use of a computer have both been found to be valuable ways to assist students with language deficits to increase their skills. Adele Friedman has found this a very useful tool with hearing impaired students at NTID. Students who are embarrassed to share and communicate in a public class often participate more openly and are less inhibited using a computer.
Extractions: Bulgaria Since the late 1980s a new topic in Bulgarian librarianship has been developing, and the Bulgarian National Library has initiated a new service area: library services to disadvantaged persons. This paper briefly describes the main trends and activities that have occurred during the period of 1990-1996: research projects; education and training of library staff; joint activities by the National Library and some public libraries; and international cooperative ventures. The paper also describes the socalled "special" libraries, which serve specific groups of disadvantaged persons: prisoners, hospital patients, and visually impaired persons. Also included are the results from research during the 1990s showing the current level of library services to each of these groups. The paper concentrates on the pioneering efforts of three large public libraries. The favorable as well as adverse conditions under which they operate are described, as are their service programmes to disadvantaged persons and the results of such programmes.
Camps For Children With Special Needs / Family Village Sites That Have Lists Or Data Bases or special needs Camps Serves emotionally, behaviorally, and learning disabled children by providing a safe http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/Leisure/camps.html
Special Education Graduate Programs In Northwest U.S.A. The Literacy for special needs program prepares professionals to meet a complex array of montana State University Billings Program special Education http://programs.gradschools.com/northwest/special_education.html
Extractions: MASTER IN TEACHING DEGREE PROGRAM (MIT)is designed for individuals who have earned a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and do not hold a current teaching certificate. MIT ... Click here for more program info Click here to visit this program's website Click to send E-mail to: graduatestudies@evergreen.edu The C and I program is concerned with facilitating the exchange of knowledge between learner and teacher. Designed primarily for experienced educators, the program offers many choices for degree concentrations ... Click here for more program info Click here to visit this program's website Click to send E-mail to: grad-admissions@seattleu.edu
Extractions: General Resources: Exceptional Parent Magazine TRI Online! Bookstore - Books About Self-Advocacy. The Parent Advocate News. The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. ... HipMag Online. Interactive web site for deaf children. Internet Resources for Special Children. For all the Special Kids of the World. The Family Village. Children with Disabilities. ... Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 1. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 2. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Site 3. The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998. Section 504 Regulations. Neighborhood Legal Services: New York State Guidelines to Allow for the Transfer of Assistive Technology When a Student Moves from School Jurisdiction to Higher Education, Other Human Services Agency or Employment. Resources for Disabled and Special Needs Children. ... The Association for Special Kids. An organization that helps families with special needs children set up individual financial plans. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Parents' Guide to the Development of Preschool Children with Disabilities: Resources and Services.
Extractions: @import "/child_health_safety/scripts/child.css"; Skip Navigation You are here: Home Health Information Text size: Normal Large These sites contain one or more of the following: parenting information, health and safety information, fact sheets on specific conditions, discussion boards and articles. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Healthfinder KidsGrowth Child Health KidsHealth ... Back to top These sites contain one or more of the following for parents of children with special health care needs: advocacy information, organizations, discussion boards, additional web links, book lists, fact sheets, coping strategies and articles. Adolescent Health Transition Project Band-Aides and Blackboards Center for Children with Special Needs FamilyVillage ... Back to top These sites provide information in Spanish on one or more of the following: advocacy, fact sheets and resource information.
EXPANDING JAILS, LIMITED BUDGETS CALL FOR NEW DESIGNS special needs populations, and changing project delivery methods. montana has developed a concept of expanding correctional facility beds by http://www.djc.com/special/design96/10016910.html
Extractions: Integrus Architecture As public safety becomes a greater issue everywhere, detention and correction facilities have a become a greater part of the design and construction industry. Design of these facilities responds to dramatic inmate population growth, operational and management changes, special needs populations, and changing project delivery methods. Numerous large scale buildings are under construction across the country. Over the last fifteen years, the number of people incarcerated in the United States has tripled, from 500,000 to more than 1.5 million. In the last ten years, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has grown from 48 facilities and 42,000 inmates to 90 institutions housing more than 101,000 inmates. The need for new correction/detention facilities is preeminent in the Pacific Northwest. The states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are all currently in the process of designing and building additional correctional facilities. The state of Washington is planning a new 1,900-bed facility in western Washington, and Integrus is currently involved in a 500-bed expansion of the recently completed Airway Heights Correction Center in eastern Washington. Oregon has completed a long range prison construction plan which shows that by the year 2005, more than 9,000 additional prison beds will be needed. This plan calls for four 1,500-bed medium security facilities and seven 400-bed minimum security facilities to be designed and built in the next ten years. This major expansion of correction facilities at the state level has also spilled over into the local communities. Oregon is providing construction dollars to over a dozen counties to allow for expansion of their local correction/detention facilities. In order to respond to the growing demand, the state has mandated that any inmate with a sentence of less than one year must stay in the local community. Integrus is involved in the design of a facility responding to this mandate in Douglas County.
Extractions: AAACN Viewpoint ABNF Journal, The AIDS Treatment News AMAA Journal ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Missoula's senior companions help create a community that cares - Missoula, Montana program to help sick aged Aging Summer, 1993 by Ann Freeman Cook Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. A popular local T-shirt sports a strange winged mammal and jets: "Missoula, a place, sort of." In truth, Missoula is an eclectic community, a rural and urban mix nestled in the mountains of western Montana. Blessed with the cultural richness of the university and the blue collar work ethic of the laborer, it is also a community struggling to build greater cohesion among its residents, while at the same time preparing to meet the challenges of future growth. Senior citizens currently make up 14% of Missoula's population, a number that is expected to increase in the coming years. An awareness of the developing needs of the senior population led the City Council in 1985 to support, on a pilot basis, a locally funded Senior Companion Program (SCP). The intent was to train low-income senior volunteers aged 60 and over to aid other seniors suffering from illness or disability.
Accountability Looms For Special Education The report reveals a sizeable achievement gap between disabled and Charter schools face unique challenges serving special education students. http://www.rppi.org/accountability.shtml
Extractions: RPPI.org is no longer being updated. Please update your bookmarks accordingly. NOTABLE QUOTABLE: "Of all the nation's conservative or free-market policy groups, it may be the most libertarian among them, the Reason Foundation in Southern California, that ends up having the most direct impact on the actual functioning of government." Restructuring California's School Finance System (1/23) California should create one simple funding mechanism that distributes both categorical and revenue-limit funding based on a weighted student formula that would include one base allocation equalized across the state and additional weighted funds for students with additional needs including special education, poverty, and English learners. Full Text
LD OnLine - State Special Education Definitions, Ages Served Public schools may operate special education programs for hearing impaired Who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services. http://www.ldonline.org/article.php?id=909&loc=50
Paper Delivered In Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 1990 International Both the state of montana in the western United States and Saskatchewan in and schools. although none of these have had an emphasis on the needs of the http://codi.buffalo.edu/archives/computing/.telcom.hand
Extractions: Paper delivered in Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 1990 International Conference on Computers for the pHysically Handicapped Telecommunications, Education and the Handicapped The North American Perspective Norman Coombs Ph.D. One Lomb Memorial Dr. Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester NY 14623, USA bitnet: NRCGSH@RITVAX Internet: NRCGSH@VAXE.ISC.RIT.EDU Computer telecommunication has been used at the Rochester Institute of Technology, (RIT), to reduce barriers to learning for the physically handicapped. I am a totally blind professor of history, and I have been using electronic mail and computer conferencing to increase my contact with students. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, (NTID), is on our campus, and this technology has enabled me to communicate with hearing impaired students without a human intermediary. In those classes taught using a computer conference instead of a face-to-face class, the deaf students, a blind professor and non-impaired students all participate on an equal basis. Those persons who became deaf as adults and who have good English skills but weak sign language skills have found this format extremely useful. One young woman said that she was able to participate fully in acollege class for the first time. Electronic mail and journaling with the use of a computer have both been found to be valuable ways to assist students with language deficits to increase their skills. Adele Friedman has found this a very useful tool with hearing impaired students at NTID. Students who are embarrassed to share and communicate in a public class often participate more openly and are less inhibited using a computer. RIT and NTID are jointly planning a pilot project with Gallaudet University, (a liberal arts university for the deaf in Washington, DC), which will deliver courses using videos, movies and interactive computer conferencing. The classes will include hearing and hearing impaired students from campuses more than 400 miles apart in the same class. One of the teachers will be blind. This project will transcend both physical handicaps and physical distance. Simultaneously, it will provide a unique setting for mainstreaming. The advantage of mainstreaming through telecommunications is that the differences between the able-bodied and the disabled disappear. During the summer of 1990, the New School for Social Research in New York City is offering an online course on adaptive computer technology for the handicapped. One teacher is blind and the other is both blind and wheelchair bound. Telecommunications permits their teaching from their homes in different cities. Class members are both handicapped and non-handicapped. Several computer bulletin boards devoted to providing materials and assistance for teachers include items related to special education. These systems are of special value in thinly populated rural districts. Both the state of Montana in the western United States and Saskatchewan in Western Canada are examples of networks which give special attention to the teachers of the handicapped. Data telecommunication promises to reduce barriers to information for persons with a variety of handicaps. This will increase their access to education, research and employment in the near future. This new empowerment will also transform their sense of self worth and self reliance. Telecommunications, Education and the Handicapped The North American Perspective Norman Coombs Ph.D. Computer telecommunication has been used at the Rochester Institute of Technology, (RIT), to reduce barriers to learning for the physically handicapped. I am a totally blind professor of history, and I have been using electronic mail and computer conferencing to increase my contact with students. Originally, I required students to submit their written work using electronic mail rather than using paper copy. This permitted me to do away with most of my human readers. I use a desktop computer and a speech synthesizer and connect with the school's mainframe with a phone and modem. Not only did this permit me to do my work without assistance, but I could work at times of my own choice. Submitting work through electronic mail held some advantages for the students as well. I now make it a habit to grade and return the work within 24 to 48 hours. Quick feedback through electronic mail helps students evaluate their progress better. The National Technical Institute for the Deaf, (NTID), is on the RIT campus, and this technology has enabled me to communicate with hearing impaired students without a human intermediary. The first time I used electronic mail for submission of student work, one of the students was a deaf woman. She had a question on my grading and so sent another message to me with her question. After several electronic exchanges, she stated that this was the first time in her life that she had "talked" to a professor without using an interpreter. Both of us felt that this gave us an immediacy that was missing in face-to-face communication. Five years RIT introduced the use of computer conferencing into its telecourses to provide a more interactive component. The content is delivered through broadcast videos and through print texts. Computer conferencing and electronic mail provided easy and rapid contact between the teacher and students and among the students. Class members who had their own computer would access the school mainframe from home using a modem. Some part- time students were able to use a computer where they worked during lunch hour or after work to do the same thing. Others had to travel to a computer lab on campus to access the mainframe using a terminal. In all cases, students could do so at any time of the day or night as the system was available at any time and the conference system was asynchronous. This created a kind of flex time approach to learning. The school main computing facility is a cluster of Digital Equipment Corporation VAX computers. The computer conference software is VAX Notes also produced by DEC. I was one of the first teachers to try this system. Faculty from the fields of computer science and engineering seemed to be locked in to thinking of the computer as a computational device and were slow to grasp its use as a communication device. As a Blind history professor, however, I had discovered computer mediated communication as an educational tool. Although the use of this system to include deaf students in class discussions had not yet occurred to me, one of the deaf students saw the potential and begged to be admitted to the class. Although the students were told in the course of our discussions that I am blind, and the woman said that she was deaf, we all quickly lost any awareness of these differences. Computer mediated communications let us all meet on an equal footing. Those persons who became deaf as adults and who have good English skills but weak sign language skills have found this format extremely useful. One young woman said that she was able to participate fully in a college class for the first time. Many other hearing impaired students have not been as quick to seize the opportunity provided by this technology. Those who have become accustomed to depending on support servicesinterpreter and notetakerseem reticent to strike out independently. When they have enrolled, many have been lax in participating. One hearing student complained that the computer conference demanded more self discipline than he had. Undoubtedly, deaf students who have relied on support services have had less opportunity to develop self motivation. In fact, it can be argued that they are the very students who could benefit most from a system encouraging their development of independence. Electronic mail and journaling with the use of a computer have both been found to be valuable ways to assist students with language deficits to increase their skills. Adele Friedman, a teacher at NTID, has found this a very useful tool for developing reading and writing skills with hearing impaired students. Students who are embarrassed to share and communicate in a public class often participate more openly and are less inhibited using a computer. They do not feel that the machine is watching and judging them. They easily become engrossed in using the computer or in what they are saying. It is easier to sense that one is interacting with the computer than with a piece of paper, and the computer becomes almost an extension of oneself. Another interesting result is that class members who have been problem students often become more cooperative and positive about participating. Some students have adopted a public role in class which they feel obliged to maintain. Using electronic mail and journaling, they drop their public mask. Because computer mediated communication is rapid and highly interactive, it provides some of the immediacy of a face-to-face classroom while including some of the benefits of working independently. Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a liberal arts university for the hearing impaired, has been using some of these same features to facilitate the development of reading and writing skills but within a different setting. Instead of using electronic mail, the Gallaudet students work together in a classroom in which each student has a desktop computer all of which are networked together. The teacher can interact with the students either in a computer mode or in a face-to-face mode. RIT and NTID are jointly planning a pilot project with Gallaudet University which will deliver courses using captioned videos, movies and interactive computer conferencing. The classes will include both hearing and hearing impaired students from campuses more than 400 miles apart in the same class. Separate copies of the video materials will be available on each campus, but the class discussions and the communication with the professor will be done over a long-distance computer network. The pilot will include two courses, one delivered from each site. One course will be on African American history, and the other will be on cinema and the deaf culture. One of the teachers will be blind. For the pilot project, each course will have a liaison teacher at the other campus. Until the system has been tested, we believe it is important that students have someone on their campus whom they can reach in person to help with any unforeseen problems. Our hope is that this will not be required on a permanent basis. This project will transcend both physical handicaps and physical distance. The technology will also permit a flex time learning in which each student can work at his or her own pace and time. Simultaneously, it will provide a unique setting for mainstreaming. The advantage of mainstreaming through telecom- munications is that the differences between the able-bodied and the disabled disappear. Telecommunication technologies have the potential to open educational access to other disability groups besides the visually and hearing impaired. A wide variety of single switch devices permit persons with severe muscular impairments to access electronic data and telecommunications. The physicist, Stephen Hawking is a well-known example of this fact. Not only do such devices open work opportunities for the mobility impaired, but they also reduce barriers to accessing education. Tzipporah Ben Abriham has been teaching courses on computers and the handicapped at Brooklyn College. She is both blind and wheelchair bound. Telecommunications has permitted her to interact with her students while also reducing the necessity for her travelling to campus. During the summer of 1990, the New School for Social Research in New York City plans to offer an online course on adaptive computer technology for the handicapped with her as its primary teacher. Computer mediated communication will allow her to work from home. Students with a computer and modem may connect from anywhere. The course is handled by Connected Education, headed by Paul Levinson, which operates several online courses for the New School. While Connected Education has enrolled physically disabled students previously, including both the visually and hearing impaired, this will be the first time it has utilized a physically disabled instructor. The ability to work from home using a machine as one's assistant is a liberating and empowering experience. Several computer bulletin boards scattered across the continent are devoted to providing materials and assistance for teachers. Some of these include items related to special education. These systems are of special value in thinly populated rural districts. In some cases these focus on gifted special education concerns, and in other cases they aim at serving the needs of underprivileged and handicapped persons. Both the state of Montana in the western United States and the province of Saskatchuan in Western Canada are examples of rural areas with computer networks which give special attention to the teachers of the handicapped. Big Sky Telegraph is an online cooperative computer conferencing system affiliated with Western Montana College and serving rural schools and communities in that state. It strives to fill the needs of a diverse set of interests including rural health networking, disabled interests, women's groups, rural economic development, global ecology and agriculture. Big Sky Telegraph provides circuit riders who will travel across Montana to train persons at rural schools, libraries, chambers of commerce, and various other organizations to both receive and provide online information. It reaches out to help the physically disabled in at least three ways. It gives online access to services which might not otherwise be available to such persons. Secondly, it provides conferencing and electronic mail facilities permitting handicapped persons who are isolated to meet and share. Thirdly, it includes an online resource center for special education teachers. They can exchange materials and experiences. In Canada, the province of Saskatchuan is developing a rural network with many of these same facilities and aimed to fill similar needs. Such systems bring together communities and persons who are otherwise remote. The Saskatchuan system is presently networking some two hundred hearing impaired persons through its electronic mail system. Many of these individuals have felt extremely isolated both because of their geographic location and because of their handicap. There are several networks which are intended to connect these regional systems. Kidsnet is located on Bitnet and Internet and links mainly teachers. On a more grass roots level, Fidonet and Fredmail link thousands of bulletin boards together. Fredmail has aimed primarily at linking students and schools. although none of these have had an emphasis on the needs of the handicapped, they obviously can be utilized in that way. Data telecommunication contains the promise of reducing barriers to information for persons with a variety of handicaps. This could increase their access to education, research and employment in the near future. This new empowerment should also transform their sense of self worth and self reliance. This last feature could become the most important result of all. However, there are at least two pitfalls which could easily undermine many of these benefits. In spite of the ways in which computers have enhanced the lives of some handicapped persons, there is always the danger that new developments in hardware or software might prevent the handicapped from continuing to use these marvelous tools. The increasing shift from text displays to graphics poses a difficulty for the visually impaired, but careful design could include their needs while increasing the use of graphics. Finally, in the United States, school funding patterns could leave out those who could benefit most from computer use. Funding usually goes to those schools where the most advantaged students are enrolled. Unless a conscious decision is made to provide the necessary equipment to schools with the greatest need, new technology may increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots. Instead of reducing barriers to equal education, computers in education might raise the fences even higher. Technology alone will not change the educational situation. It will require a socially responsible use of that technology.
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Posted 12/20/03 From The Daily Record Newsroom Special Services But New Jersey schools also send more students to special schools than any other state one of every 10 disabled children does not attend his local school. http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/bigbucks03/special_services_1.htm
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People With Special Needs Down Syndrome Report April 1997 If you have any special needs, you must contact Greyhound at least 48 hours A high school girl with DS, along with six other disabled students danced http://www.altonweb.com/cs/downsyndrome/pwsnapr97.html
Extractions: VOL. 17 #2 April 1997 NOTE: All articles and the I pronoun not attributed to others are written by or identify George R. Johnson, Robert's father. Robert is 25 years old and has Down syndrome. PUT PEOPLE FIRST. That was the admonition of H. B. Deets, Executive Director of the National Retired Teachers Association, (Division of AARP) in their January house organ. The fundamental goal of our publication is to educate, motivate and elucidate and as many readers realize, we highlight special efforts from time to time such as the strengthening and modernizing of the IDEA and that is why this issue hits that subject so hard and with your support our country will do it. Quoting Deets: "It's time to govern. That means putting aside partisan political interests and putting the interests of the American people first. Following the electionin which less than half of those eligible votedboth parties talked of bipartisanship and cooperation. We hope this talk of bipartisan cooperation will result in bipartisan solutions." We will be pleased to send his entire column to all who send a SASE. IDEA.
Extractions: Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible. Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health. Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities. Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests. Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate. Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
Special Education - Teacher Issues Thirtyeight of the school districts stated they had an immediate demand for In order to ensure that all children, including those with special needs, http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/49/02/4902.htm
Extractions: StateNotes Special Education 700 Broadway, Suite 1200 Denver, CO 80203-3460 Fax: 303.296.8332 www.ecs.org State Efforts Regarding Teacher Preparation, Certification, Recruitment and Retention October 2003 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA) took bold steps toward ensuring children with disabilities receive the free and appropriate public education to which they are entitled. One of the major issues addressed by the legislation is the quality of teachers for children with special needs. IDEA 97 requires students receiving special education services to be educated with their non-disabled peers to the maximum extent practicable. As a result, according to a 2001 report from the Study of Personnel Needs in Special Education, 75% of students receiving special education services spend 40% or more of their day in general education classrooms. Consequently, 96% of general education teachers currently teach, or have in the past taught, children with special needs. How have states responded to the challenge to prepare general education teachers to meet the needs of students with special needs? According to ECS Teacher Preparation Policy Database (http://www.tqsource.org/prep/policy/), 46 states and the District of Columbia currently have statutes or regulations requiring teacher education programs to provide some instruction on teaching children with special needs to individuals seeking initial training in elementary or secondary education. The amount and content of this instruction, however, varies dramatically.
Presidents Commission On Excellence In Special Education She was named montana Superintendent of the Year in 1998 and has been a Fulbright She has served as an elementary school and special education teacher, http://www.tash.org/govaffairs/spedcommission.htm
Extractions: November 9 - 12, 2005 * Milwaukee Midwest Express Center Governor Terry Branstad of Iowa - Chair Governor Branstad served four consecutive four-year terms as the chief executive of the state of Iowa. He completed his term of office in January of 1999. While in office, Governor Branstad made education a top priority of his administration. His leadership capabilities have been recognized through his chairmanship of the National Governors Association (NGA) (1989), and of the Republican Governors Association (1997), and his leadership in education is exemplified by his chairmanship of the Education Commission of the States (1998). As NGA chairman, he led the historic 1989 education summit in Charlottesville, Va. With the support of President Bush, the summit called for the development of performance-based National Education Goals. Those goals were subsequently adopted by the NGA in 1990. Governor Branstad has had careers as a farmer and an attorney and served his country with the U.S. Army from 1969-1971. He is a native of Leland, Iowa, and he and his wife, Chris, have three grown children. Adela Acosta of Maryland Steve Bartlett of Texas Steve Bartlett currently serves as president of the Financial Services Roundtable. He reorganized the membership base to include select member companies from all sectors of the financial services industry. Prior to that he was mayor of Dallas, Texas, from 1991-1995 and was a member of the United States Congress. A native Texan, Bartlett learned the value of hard work growing up on a small farm near Lockhart in south central Texas before moving to Dallas.
