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I have been invited to present at the 65th Conference on Exceptional Children, which is hosted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The conference will be held November 18-20 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro.
I will be presenting two topics: "Confronting the Prescription Pad IEP" and "Recognizing and Defusing Angry Parent Syndrome."
According to the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), North Carolina's efforts to implement Part C of IDEA (Birth to 2) during the 2013-14 school year were satisfactory. However, North Carolina stayed in the "needs assistance" category for the second year under OSERS heightened standard for Part B services (Age 3 to 21). That means that the Department of Education will take some kind of enforcement action, which was not released in today's report.
Only 19 states met Part B's implementation requirements satisfactorily. North Carolina is in a group of 27 states that were labeled as needing assistance for two or more consecutive years.
The OSERS summary report indicates that Texas and the District of Columbia will face serious sanctions for their continued failures to implement Part B of IDEA satisfactorily over a number of consecutive years.
