Special Education

By Tyler Rupiper

  • First School For Special Education

    1817 Hartford, The first school for the "Deaf & the Dumb" is opened, but has since changed it's name.
    https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/education/education-terms-and-concepts/special-education#:~:text=In%201817%20the%20first%20special,Hartford%2C%20Connecticut%2C%20by%20Gallaudet.

  • Compulsory Education law

    This law mandated that each city and town must offer schooling focused on arithmetic and grammar

  • California Funding

    1860 California, "State Establishes residential school for the deaf.
    https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • California Special Education Overhaul

    California creates a "Master Plan". This set out a list of tasks to be provided and accomplished that schools held in regards to their special education students, and students with disabilities.

  • I.D.E.A

    California,
    Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
    Students with disabilities receive guaranteed rights. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • NPS "Non Public Schools."

    1975 California,
    State funds NPS, privately contracted schools for education based on reimbursement and sub licensing. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • LCI - "Licensed Children's Institutions."

    Between 1975-1998.
    LCIs receive 100 percent NPS reimbursement and are residential services for fosters & "exceptional needs" students. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • California Funding Transition to J-50

    "The J-50 forms are a series of instructions, worksheets, and data collection forms used by local California educational agencies in the calculation of their special education entitlement." Bureau of Publications, Sales Unit, California State Department of Education, P.O. Box 271, Sacramento, CA 95802-0271 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED320366

  • Mental Health Services in California

    1984, Mental health services are mandated to provide support to students in special education schools and programs. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • Low Incidence Disabilities

    California 1985-86
    Deaf, Hard of Hearing, visual impairment, and ortho impairment are classified as "Low Incidence Disabilities." https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • Low Incidence Funding

    Students in Low incidence classifications receive additional funding to SELPAs due to the higher cost of support.
    https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • Un- Populated regions

    California, 1990.
    Additional funding is provided by the state to assist SELPAs operating with lower populations. These cost are awarded due to higher transportation costs & smaller amounts of cases.

  • California AB 602

    Assembly bill 602 provided funding based on Selpa, and their daily attendance. https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/se/ab602apptdat.asp#:~:text=The%20Special%20Education%20Program%2C%20also,ADA)%20and%20other%20data%20elements.

  • NPS "Cost Pool."

    70 Percent SELPA provisions and funding are stopped and replaced with AB602 Attendance funding instead.

  • PERSONAL LIFE: First interaction With Special Ed

    During my time in Elementary School, I was taken out of my English class due to lower reading and writing scores, along with a speech impediment. In place of my homeroom english section, I would spend my time with 2-3 other students and a teacher in a very small room going over reading, writing, and speech.

  • PERSONAL LIFE: Special Ed experience

    While in Elementary school, I am assigned to work with and help a student with special needs in the third grade. The capacity was mostly just working on assignments together in a form of "Buddy" program.

  • Mental Health responsibility transfer

    California 2011,
    Responsibility for support shifts from county services to the schools. This was later criticized due to "Poor coordination." https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

  • PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: Dwindling GPA

    During middle school, I was assigned to the Huntington Learning Center; they were a tutor company designed to scaffold and assist students with reading issues and comprehension and to prepare them for tests.

  • PERSONAL EXPERIENICE: Freshman year.

    Due to poor grades, reading & writing test scores, delinquency, and a low GPA; I am transferred from SRHS to MCHS due to a contract obligation.

  • PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: MCHS

    During my sophomore year, I am threatened with summer school and Remedial classes due to poor GPA and testing grades.

  • PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: First Knowledge of IEP

    While in high school, I was delinquent and getting into a lot of trouble; during a talk with a school counselor they asked if I had an IEP; while I didn't, she explained briefly what they are and how they help students.