by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Capitols
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, (CMS) officials released federal guidance for states on Medicaid coverage of therapies for autism, indicating that such treatments are covered for beneficiaries under age 21. While the guidance focuses on the provision of...
by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Capitols
The National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), released a research report earlier this year that endorses read-aloud accommodations for students with disabilities for examinations. The Center...
by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Capitols
Nearly a year after the NJDOE backed away from sweeping changes to state special education code, the Department has put forth a modest proposal to make technical changes to the code. The changes, which were submitted to the State Board of Education, are mostly...
by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Capitols
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed into law a bipartisan measure (S-2079) designed to ensure that students with disabilities are able to participate in athletics, and are provided with reasonable accommodations or modifications, based on their individual...
by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Courts
The United States District Court has upheld the decision of an Administrative Law Judge, requiring a New Jersey School district to reimburse parents for placement in an approved private school. The case involves a preschooler with severe autism for whom private...
by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Courts
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has held that the provisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) for services in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) apply to extended school year, (ESY) services. The case involves a...
by Common Ground | Aug 11, 2014 | Courts
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), along with its affiliate organizations the NFB of New Jersey and the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children (NOPBC), joined with the parents of a blind high school student in New Milford, New Jersey to file suit...
by Common Ground | Apr 22, 2014 | Features
By STAN KARP The New York Times says it’s “clearly the most important education reform in the country’s history.” But a recent Gallop poll says nearly two out of three people have never heard of it. ‘It’ is the “Common Core,” a new set of tougher curriculum standards...
by Common Ground | Apr 22, 2014 | Letters
There have been many attempts to standardize education since schooling for all children became mandatory in most Western countries. As a child in England, I took the 11-plus exam three times in the space of one year in a futile attempt to pass the standardized test....
by Common Ground | Apr 22, 2014 | Courts
Earlier this year, advocate groups in New Jersey entered into a settlement agreement with the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) in a seven-year-old law suit intended to help ensure that children with disabilities are educated in the “least restrictive...
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