We post news, statements, and other timely information related to State and PAUSD educational policy, special education, and Palo Alto CAC activities. You can read more about the Palo Alto CAC’s advisory role on our District Advisory page.
The final report of the PAUSD Special Education Review by Hehir and Associates has been released, and the Palo Alto CAC has issued a response. See below for documents.
This review affirms many of the issues and concerns we articulated previously, and surveys of teachers and administrators are […]
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VIDEO REPORT: Palo Alto Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson, Editor Jocelyn Dong and education reporter Elena Kadvany discuss the Palo Alto school district’s handling of the repeated bullying of a special-education middle-school student.
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Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) students across the school district recently participated in a variety of meaningful activities to appreciate and celebrate diversity, kindness, inclusion and respect on Unity Day, a national event when schools and communities come together against bullying. October is National Bullying […]
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Revised the District Goals 2016-2017 including new Goal #8: “Develop a systems based work plan to address recommendations in forthcoming Special Education Program Review Report”
Intermediate […]
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PAUSD Special Education Review – Preliminary Findings & Recommendation
June 15, 2016
The Preliminary Findings and Recommendation from the Review of Special Education conducted by Tom Herir & Associates are now available.
Harvard Review Preliminary Findings
The review team visited our district, reviewed student-level data and […]
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Executive Summary for March 8, 2016, Board Meeting:
“In the Education Services weekly of Friday, February 26, 2016, we presented a draft charge and parameters for a Distributed Counseling Committee. Staff strongly endorses the concepts and plan presented, as it would ideally lead to identical, or at least […]
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PAUSD – Review of Special Education Conducted by Thomas Hehir and Associates LCC
Information on the Proposals for the 2015 Review of Special Education of Palo Alto Unified School District to be conducted by Thomas Hehir and Associates LLC: Phase 1 and Phase 2.
Phase 1 took place in […]
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CAC-Special Education Statement in response to the recent OCR decision and Resolution Agreement under the ADA and Section 504
Statement presented by Palo Alto CAC at PAUSD School Board meeting, February 12, 2013
As a community, we are committed to responding appropriately to harassment, including bullying.
The […]
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