by Common Ground | Jun 14, 2022 | Parents, Professionals, Students, Teachers
Americas School Mental Health Report Card, February 2022 A group of 17 national mental health organizations has published a report that rates states on how well they are addressing this crisis through school-based mental health services. The report evaluates each...
by Common Ground | Jun 14, 2022 | Capitols
The U.S. Department of Education has announced plans to strengthen and protect rights for students with disabilities by amending regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The Department’s Office for Civil Rights(OCR) will solicit public...
by Common Ground | Jun 14, 2022 | Capitols
As part of President Joe Biden’s Unity Agenda, the administration has announced a comprehensive strategy to address our nation’s mental health crisis. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will solicit public input regarding improvements to the Department’s...
by Common Ground | Jun 14, 2022 | Snapshot
Nearly one in three parents (31%) nationwide report that their child’s emotional health is worse than before the pandemic. (School Mental Health Report Card) In 2020, the proportion of mental health-related emergency room visits for children ages 5-11 and 12-17...
by Common Ground | Mar 17, 2022 | Features
Local police handcuff and arrest a second-grader. Video footage shows the boy sobbing as an officer announces, “You’re going to jail.” Three officers are called to the scene—an elementary special education classroom—where they arrest the 8-year old with...
by Common Ground | Mar 17, 2022 | Better IEPs
When a student with disabilities faces school disciplinary action, there are important protections in IDEA that must be followed. A school may suspend a student with a disability for up to 10 consecutive school days, as long as the suspension doesn’t constitute a...
by Common Ground | Mar 17, 2022 | Professionals
By Lisa Bell, BA, RN, NBCS, and Nanette Perez, BSN, RN, CSN COVID-19 hit like a hurricane that had not been forecast. In March of 2020, when the governor of New Jersey announced that schools would close for two weeks, no one knew it would be months before most schools...
by Common Ground | Mar 17, 2022 | Capitols
A bill now on the governor’s desk would give families extra time to apply for compensatory special education services if their child with disabilities experienced learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current statute of limitations to file for full...
by Common Ground | Mar 17, 2022 | Capitols
Miguel Cardona, U.S. Secretary of Education, has called on Congress for more funding to meet the needs of students with disabilities and to support special education teachers. In a major speech, Cardona said the United Stated must do more to “ensure that children,...
by Common Ground | Mar 17, 2022 | Snapshot
The national average for students with disabilities who receive special education services included in the general education classroom is 64.8 percent, according to the 43rd annual report, up from the 47.4 percent national average reported in the 23rd annual report....
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