AMENDING an ANNUAL IEP without holding an IEP

When the IEP Team Meets ~ click to read great www.NICHCY.ORG resource about IEP meetings.


Great info on AMENDING an Annual IEP 

New Provisions in IDEA 2004: Amending the IEP Without Meeting

(4) Agreement. (i) In making changes to a child’s IEP after the annual IEP Team meeting for a school year, the parent of a child with a disability and the public agency may agree not to convene an IEP Team meeting for the purposes of making those changes, and instead may develop a written document to amend or modify the child’s current IEP.

(ii) If changes are made to the child’s IEP in accordance with paragraph (a)(4)(i) of this section, the public agency must ensure that the child’s IEP Team is informed of those changes.

(5) Consolidation of IEP Team meetings. To the extent possible, the public agency must encourage the consolidation of reevaluation meetings for the child and other IEP Team meetings for the child.

(6) Amendments. Changes to the IEP may be made either by the entire IEP Team at an IEP Team meeting, or as provided in paragraph (a)(4) of this section, by amending the IEP rather than by redrafting the entire IEP. Upon request, a parent must be provided with a revised copy of the IEP with the amendments incorporated. [§300.324(a)(4)-(6)]

http://nichcy.org/schoolage/iep/meetings#nomeeting 
*Click above link to read entire article and reference resource.

24 min/ 8 sec IEP Hostile Take-Over ~ Broward ESE Dept. NONSENSE

Should I post my 24min/8sec iPhone recording of the Hostile take over of my daughter's 5/30/12 IEP on FB?


.....or post it here on my blog? 


....just asking................


I'm having a tad bit-o-trouble here in Broward schools.


My daughter Mariah Elizabeth doesn't even know that bad people attend IEP meetings that don't care about her.....they call themselves PROFESSIONALS! 


......I'll say! 
.....this WAS a Professional job that's for sure!

Broward County Public Schools ESE Department is NOT for our children!! ~ What has happened to Mariah's Individual Education Plan is PROOF!!

Mariah's ESE Wilson Reading Teacher and ESE Specialist and some STRANGER PROGRAM SPECIALIST all followed the leader of systematically DUMBING DOWN my daughters Individual Educational Plan! THIS IS WHY I DON'T BELIEVE IN ESE TEACHERS TEACHING MY DAUGHTER! THEY HAVE THE LOWEST EXPECTATIONS for children with disabilities ~ the very students they 'serve'. My ESE Specialist became a ROBOT like the rest of the ESE Department in Broward Schools. 


My daughter has been LET DOWN from the very staff members that always 'claimed' they cared for Mariah's best interest. 


*I know my CAPITAL WRITING is going to OFFEND some really WONDERFUL ESE TEACHERS and I'm sorry for that! I know there are plenty of ESE Teachers that are the BEST Teachers out there working their tails off doing a great job with our children with unique learning challenges ~ Mariah has received SES TUTORING from some really WONDERFUL ESE Certified Teachers.....but I am hurting here by the ESE Teachers/staff that I have had my daughter under their care and they have crapped on me and trampled on Mariah's freedom to continue working hard towards earning a REAL HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA!!! I have every right to be ?FUMING MAD!! 


Mariah has taken 4 FCAT's already!! What the heck is going on with so many school staff acting so UNFRIENDLY and COLD HEARTED LATELY? I know the new principal likes to CENSOR all my emails and not allow staff to email me back...that's ok...I can still write my emails and blogs! 


If Mariah was being kicked by a group of adults would ANYONE STOP THEM? This is what is happening to her now! But it is all being done on her legal educational documents! 
Mariah deserves YOUR HELP & SUPPORT!!


I will get to WHO IS BEHIND all this nonsense! 
I need lots of prayers ~ as I fight for my daughter's quality education that I have fought so hard for thus far and don't intend to stop now.


Too bad there are BAD PEOPLE with BAD INTENTIONS that work in our schools to make a paycheck only ~ working for  the 6th largest school district in the Country!  Teachers & Staff sitting in our IEP meetings saying they are the Professionals? Really....? Mariah's ESE teacher & ESE Specialist  spit on my daughter's future educational dreams and expectations!!


...Mariah ~ I will make things right for you ~ I always do...I'm your mother! 
The momma tiger is MAD!!


Broward County Public Schools ESE Department is  NOT for our children!! The department head does not have the BEST INTEREST of our ESE Children as her highest concern ~ What has happened to Mariah's Individual Education Plan is PROOF there is a SYSTEMATIC WAY OF DUMBING DOWN THE IEP Process & our children's education ~ and sending in ESE Program Specialist to ARGUE RELENTLESSLY with good parents of wonderful children.....if they can get away with it!!...and they do plenty!!


I would like an INTERIM like I have been asking for since MARCH! When will Stephen Foster Elementary School give me a date for my interim IEP? THEY IGNORED setting up a meeting for me till 5/30/12 and then the ESE Department sent in ROBOTS to come sabotage and ARGUE!!


My daughter's Annual was not due till September 22nd, 2012. WHY WAS I BEING FORCED TO HAVE AN ANNUAL and not the IEP update Interim or end of the year IEP I have ALWAYS HAD EACH YEAR?


DISPICABLE & DISGUSTING!!

Many TITLE 1 (high-poverty) schools shortchanged in Broward County

Let's BE HONEST about TITLE 1 FUNDS and have some straight talk about it!

My daughter attends a Title 1 School....'qualifies' for SES=Supplemental Education Services aka TUTORING. She also recently started attending the afterschool FCAT CAMP last week.....funded by ??...not sure....my principal hasn't let me know how that afterschool program is being funded. I call the Title 1 office today to ask about Title 1 FUNDS and how they are suppose to be used at my daughters elementary school ~ Stephen Foster Elementary...I was referred to the Parent Involvement Liasion, who will get back to me.

I see this inequality with my own eyes at my own daughters school and from PARENT-to-PARENT even....especially if you are a parent to a child in the ESE program AND ATTENDS a Title 1 school. 


My child attends a Title 1 school, she is on REDUCED LUNCH AND is a SWD=Student with Disabilities, she has a 253 MATRIX to pay for her Special Education. I think there is some funding to help her with her education at this school. Well....at least there should be, ya think?


I am involved in my 2 children's education, I attend their IEP's, I send them to 'extra academic help camps'. I need collaborative communication with their schools. It's work, it's hard work. I work full time at making sure both my children (and others) are getting a good education via the Public school system here. I am proud of both my children's accomplishments, I am an involved parent.


Read today's article that hits home to me today about the inequality that goes on within many districts I'm sure, but this article is about BROWARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS today. 

Many high-poverty schools shortchanged in Broward County

Click the link above to read the entire article.

ESE Advisory PPP to Broward Principals by Ivan Baratz

Power Point Presentation to Principals ~ ESE Advisory 1.2


Great job Ivan Baratz of creating this Power Point Presentation for the Principals to view at the beginning of the school year. Awesome job on the presentation! Thanks!

SAF ~ POLICY 1.3

1.3 POLICY 1.3
SAF ~ SCHOOL ADVISORY FORUM
A SCHOOL ADVISORY FORUM SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOR EACH SCHOOL IN THE
DISTRICT.
Authority: The School Board of Broward County, Florida
Policy Adopted: 7/29/76; 7/21/77;5/3/79;5/21/91,4/23/96
Policy Amended 10/20/98; 12/12/00, 7/06/04
A. Every school shall have a School Advisory Forum (SAF) that shall foster and promote
communication between its stakeholders, the school, and the Area Advisory Council. The
SAF shall bring forth recommendations, concerns and interests to and from their Area
Advisory Council.
B. MEMBERSHIP
1. The membership of the School Advisory Forum (SAF) shall be representative of the school
community to include parents or guardians of students enrolled In the school, students of the
school, business partners of the school, community members and business people.
Participation from all ethnic, religious, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds is welcomed
and encouraged.
2. A Broward County School Board employee shall not be the chair at the school where
employed. The Chair and Vice-chair shall be a parent or custodial guardian of a student who
will be enrolled and attending the school during their term of service. Officers should be
elected per their school bylaws.
C. DUTIES
1. All duties will be advisory in nature, none of which will conflict with any of the powers and
duties reserved by law, policy, or administrative guidelines to the principal.
2. Actively participate with the School Advisory Council in identifying the educational needs
and priorities of the school.
3. Actively participate with the principal in the preparation of the budget, and reviewing the
budget-related concerns after each FTE count.
4. Indicate awareness of the program and plans for the school by the signature of the
chairperson on the budget when it is submitted for district budget preparation.
5. Assist in the identification and coordination of the use of community resources to improve
student achievement and school effectiveness.
6. Address parent/community concerns; work with the administration to solve problems and t o
initiate desirable change.
7. Assist in increasing/sustaining high levels of community support for the school.
8. Assist in planning, developing and implementing parent/community programs and training
activities.
9. Participate in joint training opportunities with the School Advisory Council.
10. In addition to individual School Advisory Forum meetings, hold semi-annual meetings jointly
with the School Advisory Council.
1.3 1.3
SCHOOL ADVISORY FORUM
11. The School Advisory Forum shall use guidelines developed by the district, develop and adopt
procedural bylaws, conduct meetings in accordance with the Florida Sunshine Laws, and
conduct meetings according to Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised.
12. Record, maintain, and post minutes of all meetings at the school in accordance with the
Florida Sunshine Laws.
13. School Advisory Forum (SAF) chairperson or designee shall represent SAF as a voting
member at School Advisory Council meetings.
14. SAF Chair or designee shall represent SAF as voting member of the Area Advisory Council
meetings.
15. School Advisory Forums and its officers are prohibited from using their titles and/or positions
to endorse, or give the impression of endorsing, candidates for public office
D. VOTING RIGHTS:
Meetings are open to all, but voting rights are granted only to members who are parents or
guardians of students who are enrolled in the school or matriculating to the school the following
year, students of the school, employees of the school and business partners of the school. To
vote at any meeting, members must sign in, present proof that they meet the voting membership
requirements, if requested.