FCCPTA Special Education Committee

Minutes of the December 6 , 2007 Meeting

In attendance:

Sheree Brown Kaplan, Debbie Brodsky, Janie Cameron, Scott Cambpell, Eva Ceniceros, Mary Nell Clark, Vera Conley, Margaret Fisher (chair), Darlene Greenwood, Chris Johnston, Louise Keast, Stephan Klene, Irene Moore, Bill Reeder, Joan Rizek, Katharine Schultz, Joyce Suydam, Phyllis Yoshida

Office of Special Education presentation:

Joyce Suydam, Chris Johnston and Bill Reeder presented information about their roles as directors of the three sections of the OSE, including information about outreach to schools and about C-STARS, the new on-line IEP forms.

Chair announcements:

Phyllis Yoshida has volunteered to be the parent lead for Cluster I.

The positions of committee chair and ACSD representative are vacant for next year. One person has expressed interest in possibly becoming co-chair if someone else will join.

Parent Resource Center:

We will invite Gail Holloman, the new head of the PRC, to our next meeting.

Proposed Virginia regulations on IDEA:

Sheree Brown Kaplan made a motion that 1) A subcommittee be formed to develop recommendations about the Virginia regulations; 2) Those recommendations be presented to the FCCPTA board in the form of a resolution; and 3) If the FCCPTA board adopts the resolution, the subcommittee will then forward it as public comment to the Virginia Department of Education and also present it to the appropriate people within FCPS.  The motion was seconded and approved unanimously.

 Sheree further moved that the subcommittee present the information to the state Special Education Advisory Committee before its meeting in January. She accepted a friendly amendment that the information be presented not as officially from the FCCPTA but from a group of individuals. The motion carried unanimously.

Stephan Klene, Sheree Brown Kaplan, Margaret Fisher, Mary Nell Clark, and possibly Joan Rizek volunteered to serve on the subcommittee.

Future meetings:

 Wednesday, February 6; Thursday, April 17.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Margaret Fisher

 

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