FERPA HEARING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – TOMORROW April 11th at 9am PACIFIC time. 
 
The Irvine Unified Board School Board IGNORED the fact that Timothy Tatum, Director of Student Services violated policies and the law by hiring the “hearing officer” on a verbal contract without authority, and providing private student information WITHOUT consent. The “hearing officer” Gary Geren, has refused to step down despite admitting to violating a parent’s right to a pubic hearing previously, and attempting to violate MY rights.  Timothy Tatum and Gary Geren both

MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The @MorenoValleyUSD Board of Education voted Tuesday to fire its superintendent effective immediately.

@DrKedziora has served as the superintendent since 2017.

"I would like to thank Dr. Kedziora for his years of service to the Moreno Valley Unified School District," said School Board President Susan Smith. "He has exhibited a real love for the students and families of our district. Occasionally there comes a time when institutions such as school districts need to make a change in direction. That time has come for us here at

Parents be on alert!  Districts are trying to take custody of your child with special needs!
 
School districts like @CJUHSD and the @AltaLomaSD are using the legal system to intimidate parents into silence about their child’s educational rights.  The law firm of choice is @F3Law who has filed multiple legal actions against parents to remove the parent as the child’s guardian.  Please private message if you would like to read the entire Court order which, goes into detail about how FFF filed a Motion to exclude the parent from making legal decisions about

Don English, man @CJUHSD appointed to fill Area 2 school board seat for the last year -- appears to have substantial conflict of interests. English is employed by @SBCo_Supt_Ted, therefore students, special ed and regular, who are expelled from @CJUHSD Board are sent for appeals to SB County and guess who is involved in this student's appeal process -- Don English again.

POST FROM "STAND UP SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY"

Don English is involved in lawsuit filed against San Bernardino County by @ColtonJUSD for violating student privacy during expulsion hearing

I attended #WESELPA's Propaganda Fest at @CentralSD this past Thursday entitled: "Building Positive Relationships with Your School Community" - a training for parents led by Program Manager Anthony Farenga. It's was very troubling and just another way that the schools think they own our children. I saw this in their core beliefs where Core Belief #1 was "teachers and parents have dreams for their students". I'm sorry but no teacher gets to dream about my child. They have no claim to their life and future. They need to focus on teaching them to

URGENT CALL TO ACTION:  Stop the Government from Silencing YOU!
CA SB 1100 gives control to government agencies like city councils, county boards and school boards to create and use their OWN policies and regulations to define your actions at meetings as “disruptive” and gives them unfettered power to physically remove you if you violate their policies or regulations!  This can be easily abused for the reasons below.  Please take JUST 5 MINTUES to ensure that your rights to FREE SPEECH under the First Amendment and the California Constitution are not

A HUGE win for special education family and an embarrassing loss for #WESELPA attorneys from @F3Law -- A Federal Judge just smacked down attempts by the law firms of Fagen, Friedman and Fulfrost to sanction an attorney who represents a family of a student with disabilities in @AltaLomaSD. @F3Law continues to employ the sanctions tactic unsuccessfully, despite a unanimous decision by the #WESELPA Superintendent’s Council not to pursue a sanctions policy in the WESELPA.
I believe FFF is marketing these motions because they get paid by the

OBTAINING EMAILS/TEXTS ABOUT YOUR CHILD. Emails and texts are NOT considered "student records" but parents CAN obtain them via PUBLIC records. I've created a little background fact sheet so you can understand why that is. The main issue is that FERPA says only records that are identifiable and are MAINTAINED are student records. The courts have defined "maintained" as in a physical file. So, emails and texts (and Google docs communications, etc), unless they are printed and put in a physical file, are not considered "educational records." However,

Selpas need their own audit, independent auditor says-- See SEALs email to #WESELPA Administrator @RickyAlyassi.

Dear Ricky,

Hope you had a nice holiday season. I wanted to let you know that this past Monday, the San Bernardino County Board of Education heard a report from an independent auditor. During the presentation, I asked the auditor regarding the SELPA's responsibility to perform an audit. I asked the auditor if the audit presented to the County Board encompassed all of the programs of the SELPAs since SELPAs have their own board. The auditor

SPECIAL EDUCATION PARENTS

Saturday, June 19, 2021 2-4pm

ONLINE PRESENTATION ON HOW TO RUN FOR SCHOOL BOARD

It is clear that most school board members don’t really care about our special education issues. That could be largely due to the fact that they don’t have a child in special education or some personal connection. Well we do and we need a voice on the board!

We need parents to run in our upcoming school board elections in 2022! Join us online Saturday, June 19th for an online presentation on how to run for your local school board presented by

ACTION ALERT-- Blow the whistle on WESELPA  wrongdoing and speak up for children with disabilities 
Dear Friends,
 
Please support children with disabilities and their families by speaking up on their behalf.  You do not need to be in the WESELPA area to support our cause. Please DM for email distribution list.
Suggested language (feel free to add your own details):
 
Dear School Board Members,
 
I wanted to express my disappointment in how your Superintendent voted on your behalf today at a meeting of the West End Special Education Local

Special Education during COVID-19 Webinar
Please join us for an educational presentation about IEPs during COVID-19 and how the California Department of Education can be a helpful resource for parents.
Saturday, February 6, 2021 6:00-7:30pm
Click on the Registration Link below to register and receive the link to the webinar:
forms.gle/L5nqVNgBZfY4yN…
NOTE: We are asking people to verify that they are parents/caregivers by providing a REDACTED first page of their child's IEP.
We are trying to preserve confidentiality. We have had many attempts by school

Thank you to all who have made comments in support of children with disabilities in the #WESELPA. I urge you to continue our advocacy tomorrow. You do not need to be in WESELPA to comment. Your support is important as some of the decisions made at WESELPA may eventually spill over to other areas.
Please send email by 9:00 am tomorrow to karen.johnson@sbcss.net
Two ways to comment:
1—Live via phone; send Karen Johnson email before 1/22 9:00 am, requesting to speak on Item B—Public Comments
2—Submit your comments via email before 1/22 9:00am to

From a SEAL...My public comments to @AltaLomaSD --Dear @ALSD_Super_Jim,
I am aware that ALSD is holding an in-person meeting tonight and unfortunately I cannot attend in person. I am requesting an accommodation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Governor’s stay home order. I have individuals in my family that are considered “high risk” & therefore I am strictly adhering to the Governor’s orders. Please read the comments below into the record during public comment:
Dear @AltaLomaSD Board and members of the public,
I would like to take the

From a SEAL: “I looked at my annual tax bill and saw that I'm paying taxes to District via the County tax collector. The voters at the City of Temecula passed a bond initiative to increase facility needs @TVUSD.

The same law firms who have attorneys used for bond measures at Districts have lawyers within their firm who go to due process, federal court against students with disabilities.

@IUSD, SanD ieguito HS, @TVUSD and other Districts have legal agreements in Special Education with Dannis Woliver Kelly that are approved by the

Do you want your children or grandchildren back in school? Would you at least like the option? The leadership of @CentralSchoolD1 doesn’t believe you should have that option and has refused to apply for a waiver as other districts in the area have done. Many families need the option of their children returning to school. In a recent tweet from @CSBA_Now, they shared that students across the state have been returning to the classroom this month and so far public health officials report no significant increase in Covid-19 cases. When it comes to

Advocates for Angels: Meet the Panelists!

➡️Marc Levine: Marc is a retired Special Education Judge. He retired to help families of children with special needs. He co-founded Levine & Maybaum, LLP, a law firm that specializes in matters involving special education. ➡️Rita Fernandez-Loof: Rita has led efforts to improve education for children with disabilities and educate parents about their children’s rights. She authored legislation (SB 1327—Soto) to strengthen protections for children with disabilities attending private schools, which

There are many concerns about #WESELPA (@UplandUnifiedSD, @AltaLomaSD, @CJUHSD and 6 other districts). Each of these Districts pay into the #WESELPA to support their special education students.

The link below is from the #Fiscal Crisis Management Team (#FCMAT), an independent organization that was called in by Independent districts within #WESELPA because of lack of trust and transparency. This report was done in 2010 and the same issues still exist in 2020.

This report talks about the contingency fund (#Xpot)* that is used for legal fees, p29.

Public comments @ #WESELPA Program Advisory Committee (#PAC), the #SELPA spedheads from Advocate Peter Atwood:
“Some arithmetic: It captures the prevailing attitude that the #WESELPA reimburses 100% to litigate against kids, while only reimbursing 30% to actually do something for a kid. Ricky [#SELPA Administrator], and the rest of you, so long as the #SELPA makes its priorities that clear with its checkbook, any talk about wanting to work with parents or to do anything for kids is idle chatter. I have two outstanding cases with you all.?

@CSBA_Now or California School Boards Association is a membership-driven association that provides policy resources and training to members and represents the statewide interest of public education through legal, political legislative, community and media advocacy as stated on CSBA's website. @CSBA_Now offers
Premier Business Affiliate memberships to law firms that school districts use to litigate against families with disabled students. In particular, one law firm @F3Law Fagen, Friedman & Fultrust, is a Premier Business Affiliate at CSBA. This Premier

September 1, 2020, will be day 3 trail against special education student - @UplandUnifiedSD using taxpayer dollar intended for education students, paying a private law firm with our taxpayer dollars to fight not support a young girl with reading disability. We are passionate about exposing the use of private law firms in Special Education at Districts like @UplandUnifiedSD (CA) and @TVUSD (CA).

Stop the #schooltoprisonpipeline. The lawyers at the private law firms approved by Board Member at @UplandUnifiedSD and @TVUSD