MCAS Accommodations Update from DOE

School districts and parents should review the new DOE Spring 2008 Update – Requirements for the Participation of Students with Disabilities in the MCAS found at the link below: http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/participation/sped.pdf

SEABoard has donated the following materials to the Swampscott Public Library:

Special Education Reports Available to Read

Thank you to Neil Bernstein, Swampscott School Committee Member, for posting public school documents on his website. Now posted are: the Special Education Program Audit that was done in 2006 and the Special Education Financial Review recently done in October, 2007. The Program Audit discusses recommendations to the district for ways to improve Special Education. Dr. Maureen Bingham updated us as to progress being made in her “State of Special Education” presentation at our November meeting (please email us if you would like to see copies of this). The Financial Review looks at accounting and reporting practices. The issues raised by this report have been addressed and remedied by the cooperative efforts of new members of the Administration in the Business Office, the Technology Coordinator and the Special Education Office.

Resource Area at Library

SEABoard helps maintain a Special Education resource area in the Children’s Room at the Swampscott Public Library. There are relevant books and binders full of useful information. Please let us know if there is anything you would like to see added.