DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents outlining rights for disabled students

[workinclasszero]

DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents outlining rights for disabled students
By Moriah Balingit October 21 at 12:12 PM

The Education Department has rescinded 72 policy documents that outline the rights of students with disabilities as part of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate regulations it deems superfluous.

The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services wrote in a newsletter Friday that it had “a total of 72 guidance documents that have been rescinded due to being outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective — 63 from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and 9 from the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA).” The documents, which fleshed out students’ rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Rehabilitation Act, were rescinded Oct. 2.

A spokeswoman for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/10/21/devos-rescinds-72-guidance-documents-outlining-rights-for-disabled-students/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.879d970a55d6

[Takket]

1. "eliminate regulations it deems superfluous."

Replace the word regulation with people and you have their true intentions.

[workinclasszero]

5. If you aren't a right wing republican Rand worshiper

You are a 'useless eater' to the cabal in charge in Washington DC.

[dembotoz]

2. Out of the womb, on their own til the tomb

Gop family values

[workinclasszero]

6. Yeah republicans are "pro-life" until birth

Then fuck you kid, should've been born rich sucker!

[spanone]

3. god damn these people. ...did not respond for comment.

FUCK THESE PEOPLE.

[Matthew28]

4. Just evil

So pretty much if you're not rich = you're worthless and should die.

[workinclasszero]

8. That is religious right /republican political thought in a nutshell

Chapter and verse, Book of Ayn Rand!

[Madam45for2923]

7. Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda.

[ProudLib72]

9. I'll wait to see how individual schools respond to this

It's not like they are all on Bitchy DeVos' side. I can see a lot of schools suing over this.

[mercuryblues]

10. here are the 72 docs

http://eduptcwwwp01.ed.gov/policy/speced/reg/eo13777/eo13777-osers-outdated-guidance-list-20171002.pdf

[smirkymonkey]

11. I hate that miserable bitch.

We had a co-worker who left our company to go work as her communications director. I didn't understand it because she was a smart, nice girl. I can't believe she is enabling this witch. I want DeVos gone yesterday.

[workinclasszero]

12. Its hard to believe the hatred these rich republicans have

for sick and disabled (non-rich)children.

Is there no level of evil these bastards won't sink to?

[smirkymonkey]

13. Everything they do is based upon cruelty.

They are just a cruel, heartless, miserable bunch of people. I hope that they are all being eaten alive by the meanness in their souls.

[lindysalsagal]

14. I took a look, and following the links, it's layers upon layers of edubabble

As far as I can tell, these are not the idea special ed laws themselves: They are details about how idea should be implimented on a student-by-student basis.

This may allow some clever charter schools to avoid some niceties of program implimentation, if they take the time to investigate them.

It makes my head swim.

As far as I can tell, these were created in the field to address questions schools had in what the idea terminology was referring to.

Idea is more or less like our pledge of alliegance: It states the philosophy, but not the standard boots-on-the-ground practice.

Remains to be see if some students will be left high and dry because of these rescinded recommendations. We'll know when schools point to certain ones at board meetings where angry parents are complaining....