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Monday, June 11, 2012

Time to focus more on student achievement for students with disabilities? - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Time to focus more on student achievement for students with disabilities? - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:


Time to focus more on student achievement for students with disabilities?


Monday, June 11th, 2012 at 11:03 am in No Comments
Stacey Smith is an Oakland school district parent and volunteer who has served on the District GATE Advisory Committee, the school board’s Special Committee on School Based Management, and the Community Advisory Committee for Special Education. I invited her to contribute periodically to The Education Report, and she wanted me to emphasize that any topic she writes about — including the below piece –  is just what she finds worth sharing and does not reflect the view of any group. — Katy
Students with disabilities are currently among the lowest achieving students in the Oakland Unified School District. Between 2005 and 2010, the achievement gap between the general population and students with disabilities — who make up over 10 percent of the student population — has persisted or widened in English,